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.

• If a new page is moved immediately after being created and the redirect is deleted, the page now shows up in Special:Newpages. (r40912, bug 3481)
• If a page is edited, then moved and then deleted in a short space of time, the redlink for when the page was edited no longer shows up on Special:Recentchanges. (r41069, bug 15655)
• Wikilinks in the site notice now work correctly when viewed via the secure server. (r40937, bug 10463)
• Editing a page no longer sometimes causes several duplicate revisions to be created in its history. (r41089, bug 15656)
• Administrators can no longer block other users when blocked themselves. (r41108, bug 15642)
• There is no longer a useless "Other expiry:" text box on the protection form when an expiry is chosen from the drop-down and the page refreshed. (r41128, bug 15627)
• The "active users" count now no longer mistakenly counts some active users. (r41137, bug 15682)

• The deletion log fragment shown when a page is created is now limited to 10 entries (with a link to the full log if there are more entries than that). (r41131, bug 15650)
• The block log for an IP range is now linked from its "contributions" page. (r41149, bug 13156)

• MediaWiki:Robots.txt allows administrators to add rules to the English Wikipedia's robots.txt file. (Note that robots.txt is whitespace-sensitive and a syntax error can cause spiders to ignore the page.) (bug 15601http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15601)

• 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.

The Arbitration Committee did not open or close any cases this week, leaving four currently open.

• Piotrus 2: A second case involving alleged edit warring and other misconduct by Piotrus and other editors. Piotrus denies the allegations against him, and suggests that the case may be a deliberate attempt to drive him from the site.

• Sarah Palin protection wheel war: A case involving allegations of wheel-warring on the Sarah Palin article, over a dispute as to the merits of page protection being applied in respect of it.

• SlimVirgin-Lar: A case brought by Thatcher, asking the committee to review the use of checkuser by Lar, in the light of comments by SlimVirgin (here, inter alia), alleging that he misused the tool. Evidence is to be submitted privately to the committee by e-mail, and voting will presumably occur privately as well.

• C68-FM-SV: A case, which has lasted for over four months, involving disputes among Cla68, FeloniousMonk, SlimVirgin, JzG, and others. If closed, a decision would be enacted which sets out a number of principles and findings of fact, and instructs the parties to review and abide by them, giving a number of prohibited courses of conduct by way of example. FeloniousMonk would also be desysopped.