This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.12 (8b8c762), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

• The PHP and XML output of Special:Allmessages no longer incorrectly expands templates. (r32700, bug 13431)
• Renaming a user now moves the logs of blocks and user right changes applied to that user to their new username. This does not apply retroactively to previously renamed users. (r32816, bug 7011)
• JSON output from the API now correctly marks strings as strings even if they are the string representation of an integer. (r32820, bug 11633)
• JSON callbacks from the API now allow square brackets. (r32822, bug 12136)

• There have been some major improvements to what the watchlist is capable of watching (r32685):
  • Watching an image description page will now display a watchlist entry when the image itself is overwritten (by uploading a new version of it). (bug 778http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778)
  • Watching an existing page now shows log entries for that page in the watchlist (for instance, page moves, protections and deletions). (bug 5546http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5546)
• Special:Recentchanges now has an option to show only bot-flagged edits (edits made by bot-flagged users or bot rollback). (r32696, bug 13441)
• It's now possible to obtain a list of user groups and permissions using the API (which explains which user groups are needed to perform which actions, e.g. you need to be an administrator to delete pages). (r32740, bug 13603)
• Logs now use timestamp paging, making log links stabler and removing the 10000 offset limit restriction. (r32685, bug 5446)
• Special:RevisionDelete expanded to include files and log events. Not yet enabled on Wikimedia sites. (r32278)
• Private logging support added, starting with a log for Special:RevisionDelete items hidden from Sysops (or unhidden from them) (r32685)

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.

After Wikipedia reached 10,000,000 global articles on March 27 (see archived story), the Kapampangan Wikipedia became the 100th Wikipedia to reach 5,000 articles on April 2.

Showing the growth of smaller-language Wikipedias, the 100th Wikipedia to reach 100 articles was the Nahuatl Wikipedia in June 2005 (see archived story); June 2006 saw the 100th to reach 1,000 articles, the Venetian Wikipedia (see archived story). In April 2006, about 73.4% of existing articles were located on the Top 10 Wikipedias; since then, only 59.4% of the new articles created over the last two years were on Top 10 Wikipedias.

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 350,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 3,000 entries.
• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week and closed two cases, leaving four cases currently open.

• September 11 conspiracy theories: A case involving the actions of some editors on articles related to the September 11, 2001 attacks, particularly in relation to 9/11 conspiracy theories. As a result of the case, any uninvolved administrator can impose sanctions on editors working on articles related to the events of September 11; such sanctions may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the arbitration enforcement noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee itself.

• Highways 2: A case involving editing by NE2 on articles relating to WikiProject U.S. Roads, allegedly against consensus of other editors involved with that wikiproject. As a result of the case, editors were counseled to consider contributing outside of disputed articles, and WikiProject U.S. Roads members were advised to refer to prior debates when explaining prior consensus.

• Strider12: A case involving an Abortion-related dispute between Strider12 and MastCell.

• International Churches of Christ: A case involving disputes concerning the article on International Churches of Christ. Remedies would restrict TransylvanianKarl from editing this and related articles anonymously or through other accounts, urge him to refrain from editing these articles until he has familiarized himself with core policies, and instruct him to comply with such policies.

• Prem Rawat: A case involving the actions of editors on Prem Rawat and related articles. A remedy that would place Rawat-related articles on article probation currently passes, and another, more recently proposed remedy instructing editors with a possible or perceived conflict of interest to comply with Wikipedia policies on NPOV and conflict of interest has the support of four arbitrators.

• Betacommand 2: A case involving the actions of Betacommand and others in relation to BetacommandBot, a controversial bot which tags some non-fair-use-compliant images. Betacommand's actions had previously been discussed on a subpage of WP:AN. The main remedy, supported by six arbitrators, would instruct Betacommand to remain civil, refrain from making personal attacks, operate BetacommandBot within the scope of policies, and refrain from "further instances of untoward conduct"; an alternate remedy, with four supporting and one opposing, would extend the remedy to require Betacommand to allow a method of opting out of user talk-page messages. Other remedies proposed, and supported by five to six arbitrators, would urge Betacommand to be more responsive to good-faith questions, advise editors that images and media may be periodically reviewed for compliance with non-free content criteria, and ask the community to re-examine policies regarding image deletion, bot-assisted and otherwise, and consider whether any updating of the bot approvals group's procedures is warranted.