Thanks to a recent change, plus signs are now allowed in titles. The most prominent article that was affected by this bug was C++, which had previously been located at C plus plus.

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• 3 January - "amane" rebooted at colocation center, fixed.
• 7 January - In response to a registration flood, a user throttle was added to the English Wikipedia. brion noted that CAPTCHAs or other confirmation devices may be used in the future.
• Various SSL certificates added and replaced.

The English Wikipedia reached 900,000 articles on 4 January. A user monitoring new pages created during this time reports that Trackdown likely was the milestone article.

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles with Eastern Front (World War II).
• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 800 articles.
• The Tok Pisin Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 18,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 1,500 articles.

The Arbitration Committee did not close any cases this week.

No cases were accepted this week.

Other cases involving VeryVerily (user page), editors on WebEx and Min Zhu, editors on Rajput, freestylefrappe (user page), Firebug (user page), Robert I (user page), Sortan (user page) and EffK (user page) are in the Evidence phase.

Cases involving Benjamin Gatti (user page), Gibraltarian (user page), Carl Hewitt (user page), Reddi (user page), Deeceevoice (user page), numerous editors on Neuro-linguistic programming, Johnski (user page), a series of editors on Winter Soldier, Copperchair (user page), and AndriyK (user page) are in the Voting phase.

Motions to close are on the table in cases involving Xed (user page) and voters on webcomics AFDs.