Images may be unavailable for sometime on 21 November or 22 November in order to finish server configurations on the new image server, 'amane'.

After being disabled last week, HTML Tidy was re-enabled, just 5½ hours after it was disabled. Tim Starling noted that the likely cause of most errors attributed to Tidy was elsewhere; numerous parse and other errors were responsible for many of the problems. Many Apache machines reported error logs of over 100GB at the time. Without Tidy, many talk pages were rendered unreadable, mostly due to invalid HTML within user signatures. During the downtime, brion added a feature that disallowed signatures with invalid HTML.

The operation allowing users to change their username was re-enabled on 16 November. Special:Renameuser had been disabled since 26 September due to the page's inefficiency. brion restored the function with the 'archive' bit disabled, leaving a minor concern about the possibility for incorrect usernames in the histories of undeleted pages.

A new system for creating squid traffic statistics is now active. The site generates graphs showing statistics for all active squid farms. A previous statistics site has been phased out.

Other server-related events and problems included:

• 15 November — 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica scans converted to PNG files dynamically
• 17 November — Servers srv51 through srv70 are being prepared for usage as Apache servers
• 18 November — Page leech blocked

The possible dates for Wikimania 2006 have been narrowed down to two options, one in July and one in August. The conference, to be held next year at Harvard University, is tentatively set for either July 13-16 or August 3-6. The choice depends partly on which facilities are available at the given time; the August dates have greater competition for meeting rooms, while the July dates would be tighter in terms of dorm room accommodations for conference attendees. With a view to maximizing attendance, August is believed to be preferable in terms of people's commitments and travel flexibility. The Wikimania planning committee welcomes feedback to assist in making the final selection.

Article validation is set to be enabled on Wikipedia "very soon", probably during this week, according to David Gerard. The feature has been available for a while, but had not been utilized.

After discussion in favor of the proposal, a peer review process for pictures has been created. The page, which is not required to have pictures featured, aims to help improve pictures, similarly to the peer review process for featured articles.

• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee closed a case against Stevertigo this week.

The case against Stevertigo was closed for a second time on 18 November. As a result, Stevertigo was de-adminned. A previous ruling required Stevertigo to resubmit himself for adminship; however, after complaints by the community, and the ensuing RFA, in which many users submitted that the decision was the Arbitration Committee's job, the case was reopened by Theresa Knott.

The case centered around Stevertigo's actions at Vietnam War; he was accused of using admin tools to evade a three-revert rule block.

Cases were accepted this week against numerous editors on Political Research Associates, a series of editors on Winter Soldier, and Johnski (user page). All three are in the evidence phase.

An additional case against Rex071404 (user page) was accepted this week. It is in the voting phase.

Other cases against Xed (user page), Pigsonthewing (user page), Copperchair (user page), numerous editors on Ted Kennedy, and Rangerdude (user page), are in the evidence phase.

Cases against Ultramarine (user page), Silverback (user page), and Lightbringer (user page) are in the voting phase.

Motions to close are on the table in cases against Maoririder (user page) and Instantnood (user page).