Through just ten days, the Wikimedia fundraising drive has raised more than USD $115,000, over half of the 21-day fundraiser's goal. A $200,000 funding drive started on 19 August. The drive aims to pay for the significant server costs, which have risen dramatically recently.

• The Swedish Wikipedia passes 100,000 articles. The 100,000th article is believed to be sv:Jógvan við Keldu or sv:Epiglottal klusil. Wikinews has coverage: "Swedish Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles".
• The English Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 500 featured articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Sicilian Wikipedia reached 2,000 articles.
• The Limburgian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee did not close any cases this week.

DotSix, the name for an IP address engaged in vandalism, sockpuppeting, and editing of other users' comments in his RFAr, has been banned from all pages except his talk page and his RFAr pages. The case is currently in the evidence phase.

Cases against Gabrielsimon and -Ril- are in the working phase. Cases against Stevertigo and Rainbowwarrior1977 are in the evidence phase.

Requests against Ultramarine and Ed Poor have both garnered four votes, the bare minimum for a RFA to be accepted.