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.

• CategoryTree no longer produces duplicate links for users without JavaScript enabled. (r43492, bug 15971)
• The Image: namespace is now called File:. (r43639, bug 44)
• The API now correctly indicates rate limits for users with higher limits for certain actions; for instance, rollbackers now see the number of rollbacks they can make in a minute as if they were rollbackers, rather than as if they were anons. (r43678, bug 12760)

• The JS-enhanced watchlist and recent changes now have the same layout. (r43672, bug 11728)
• The API now indicates whether blocked users can edit their own talk page, on a query about blocks. (r43676, bug 16367)

• 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 Wikimedia Foundation's 2008 fundraiser continued this week, raising nearly $356,000 in its second week and bringing total fundraiser contributions to $882,000 over the first two weeks. Including major gifts, the Foundation had raised over $2.79 million so far this fiscal year (since July 1).

The List Summary Service, a failed attempt to summarize the ongoings on the Foundation's mailing lists, was restarted by Phoebe after nearly 18 months of inactivity. The service summarizes the various topics discussed on the mailing lists, and issues new summaries about twice a month. The main focus is on the foundation-l mailing list, but Phoebe also added a summary for the WikiEN-l mailing list as well.

This week, summaries were added for foundation-l, for the periods of October 1-17, October 18-31, and November 2-15. A summary was also added for WikiEN-l, for November 1-15.

A vote on a new logo for Wikibooks is ongoing on the Meta-Wiki. As of press time, the most popular choice is Logo B, with 67 votes, followed by E with 47 votes, and H with 41 votes. The vote ends on December 1, and following the vote, discussion will focus on minor changes to the selected logo, including colors and branding.

• This week, eight projects enabled the MediaWiki extension FlaggedRevs, which allows for the selection of "reviewed" pages as the default revision viewed by users who are not logged in. Most notable among these projects is the Polish Wikipedia and the Classical Chinese Wikipedia.
• Wikimedia Commons has reached 3,500,000 media files.
• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Silesian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Manx Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee opened one case this week, and did not close any, leaving three open.

• Cold fusion: A case involving conduct disputes around the article Cold fusion.

• Kuban Kazak-Hillock65: A case involving a dispute between Hillock65 and Kuban kazak.

• Piotrus 2: A second case involving alleged edit warring and other misconduct by Piotrus and other editors. Piotrus denies the allegations against him, and has suggested that the case may be a deliberate attempt to drive him from the site. The case, which has been open for over two months, involves a large number of users not named as official "parties" to the case, but cited in workshop proposals made by arbitrator Kirill Lokshin.