• Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- see screenshot. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:3309)
• The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
• Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:5284)
• A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
• New magic word __NEWSECTIONLINK__ was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages. (Rob Church)

• Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
• [[Special:Userlist]] created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church)
• Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on [[MediaWiki:Bad_image_list|Bad Image List]]. (Rob Church)
• "Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
• Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
• "Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)

• SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
• Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
• <title> tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)
• [[Special:Recentchangeslinked]] and [[Special:Mostlinked]] updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)
• Handling of underscores in usernames on [[Special:Listusers]] fixed. (Rob Church)
• "Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (Brion Vibber)
• Naked HTML output caused by nested <li> links fixed. (Ashar Voultoiz)
• Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on [[Special:Wantedpages]]. (Rob Church)
• Unstable parser issues on [[Special:Preferences]] cleaned up. (Rob Church)

Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.

Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• dryas taken out of rotation to make a synchronous dump for zedler.
• mailgraph installed on goeje.
• toolserver replication user and tunnel created for use on henbane.
• url host for wikimedianz-l list fixed.
• asw3's switchport configured so new machines will work.
• redirected http://ticket.wikimedia.org/ to secure server.
• will reinstalled.
• large and unused x-moz log disabled.

Three users - Raul654, Mindspillage, and Sj - represented Wikimedia at Friday's session of the ACM CFP-2006 conference. Several speakers - notably EFF lawyer Mike Godwin and science fiction author Vernor Vinge - spoke in glowing terms of Wikipedia. (Vinge later said the plenary session discussing Wikipedia was one of the highlights of the conference for him.)

Mr. Vinge also passed along a request for a certain feature (a sort of "Wayback Wikipedia" where it would be possible to view all articles on Wikipedia as they existed at a certain point in time) and Mindspillage dutifully filed the request for him.

• The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 3,000 files.
• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The German Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 140,000 entries.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 4,000 registered users.
• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 600 articles.
• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
• The English Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee closed four cases this week. Additionally, Herschelkrustofsky was banned for one year in a motion in a prior case.

A case against FourthAve was closed on Tuesday. As a result, FourthAve was banned from Wikipedia for 1 year, and placed on indefinite personal attack parole, probation, and general probation. FourthAve was found to have made personal attacks and engaged in "aggressive point of view editing" on articles relating to the University of Dubuque and Jim Nussle.

A case against Lou franklin was closed on Friday. As a result, Lou franklin was indefinitely banned from pages and talk pages relating to societal attitudes towards homosexuality, and placed on personal attack and revert paroles. Lou franklin had edit-warred, and the Committee called him a "disruptive" and "ineffective" editor.

A case against editors on Depleted uranium was closed on Saturday. As a result, Nrcprm2026, a.k.a. James S., was banned from articles relating to depleted uranium and uranium trioxide, and placed on probation and general probation. TDC was also placed on a one-revert-per-day limit for a year, and users who had made personal attacks on James S. were warned. James S. and TDC had edit warred on the pages in question.

A case brought against Aucaman was closed on Sunday. As a result, Xebat and all his accounts were banned for one year, and Aucaman, Zmmz, SouthernComfort, ManiF, Kashk, and User:Khoikhoi were placed on probation for one year. Aucaman and SouthernComfort were also banned from editing articles relating to Persians and Iranians, and Zmmz was banned from editing Persian people and Iranian peoples. Xebat had made ethnic-related personal attacks, while Aucaman had made lesser personal attacks, and all parties in the case had edit warred.

A motion to ban Herschelkrustofsky for one year passed on Friday. The measure, which received 6 support votes and no opposition, amended a previous case.

Cases involving Deathrocker (user page), Infinity0 (user page), Sam Spade (user page), and PoolGuy (user page) were accepted this week. All are the evidence phase.

An additional case involving editors on Biological psychiatry is in the evidence phase.

Cases involving users SqueakBox and Zapatancas, Messhermit (user page), and Jacrosse (user page), Marcosantezana (user page), and Locke Cole (user page) are in the voting phase.

Motions to close are on the table in the cases involving Monicasdude (user page), Terryeo (user page), and users DarrenRay and 2006BC.

A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account has seven support votes with no opposition.