On 15 November, twenty new servers were ordered. Ten of these servers will be used as cache servers, while the other ten will be used as multi-purpose application servers. In all, the server order totaled approximately US$50,080.00.

Currently, $114,436.00 has been spent on hardware during the fourth quarter; altogether, $285,676.00 has been spent on hardware in 2005.

Developer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason has created a new page for citing articles, Special:Cite. Links to this page can be found in the toolbox when viewing pages in the article namespace. The page shows information about a given article necessary for citing articles, and generates citations in different citation styles, including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

A new site status page has been created by Ambush Commander, in response to the 'unwieldy' nature of editing the current status page, hosted on OpenFacts. Rather than using a conventional wiki environment, the page allows a user to select a series of options to display the current status and leave a comment.

Images and image uploads were disabled for a time on 22 November while a new image server, 'amane', was installed. The outage was necessary to allow the copying of images from 'khaldun', 'bacon', and 'albert'.

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

• 23 November — Routing problems involving certain Cogent IPs fixed.
• 26 November — 'Srv5' breaks, taken offline.
• 27 November — Wikipedia-l, Wikien-l, and Helpdesk-l lists blocked in the Robots.txt file, following complaints that 'newbie questions', often embarrassing, were showing up in search results.