Rob Church created and installed a recent extension, MakeBot, which allows bureaucrats to set bot flags. Previously, the task was handled by stewards. Stewards still have the ability to grant bot access through the stewards' interface. In another fix, Brion Vibber fixed a bug prohibiting stewards from changing rights on the English Wikipedia.

A series of changes to the watchlist were made on 17 April and 18. The most notable change was the addition of an "enhanced watchlist" function, available through a user's preferences. This function, similar to the "enhanced recent changes" function, offers additional information via a JavaScript toggle button. Other changes included the ability to set other preferences, including the number of days shown, through preferences, the addition of a "clear all" link, which removes all items from a user's watchlist, and a working "hide bot edits" function.

• 17 April — Editing toolbar fixed in certain versions of Opera, Safari, and Konqueror
• 18 April — List of unused templates generated
• 21 April — Special:Newpages now filter-able by namespace
• 22 April — Special:Wantedpages updated for pages created since last report

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• 19 April — Tampa cluster fails
• 20 April — Wikisource mailing list created
• 22 April — Search servers restarted
• 24 April — Chapter committee wiki fixed

According to Alexa, Wikipedia has become the 17th most visited website on the internet, passing Blogger. This actually happened in late March. Just above Wikipedia are Google UK and Microsoft. Wikipedia's daily traffic rank has remained relatively constant since February.

A Wikipedia criticism site, Wikitruth, has raised the ire of administrators by publicly posting information available only to administrators. The information, which includes revisions of Wikipedia articles deleted under the office actions policy, was posted on the site and later mentioned by an article in The Guardian. A subsequent posting included a channel log from a private administrator-only IRC channel.

• The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 1,000 text-units.
• The Gothic Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 users.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles.
• The Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Italian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.
• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikinews has reached 200 news stories.
• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 1,500 articles.
• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Korean Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.
• The Turkmen Wikipedia has passed 100 articles.
• The Twi Wikipedia has passed 10 articles.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has passed 7,500 total pages and 17,000 edits.
• The Ilokano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• Japanese Wikipedia won the "All About Super recommended site grand-prix 2006" channel prize. The award ceremony will be held at 04/26(JST) in Tokyo.
• goo.ne.jp, a search engine in Japan, starts an encyclopedia word search service that searches the Japanese Wikipedia.
• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 3,000 registered users.
• The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee did not close any cases this week. A motion did pass, however, in a prior case.

A motion in the prior case against Xed, to place the user on personal attack parole indefinitely, passed with 5 support votes and no opposition. Xed was placed on personal attack parole in an earlier case, but that remedy lapsed in March 2006.

No new cases were accepted this week.

Cases involving users SqueakBox and Zapatancas, Monicasdude (user page), Messhermit (user page), and Jacrosse (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases involving Marcosantezana (user page), users DarrenRay and 2006BC, Terryeo (user page), FourthAve (user page), editors on Depleted uranium, Aucaman (user page), Agapetos angel (user page), Locke Cole (user page), and Lou franklin (user page) are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the case involving editors on Bible verse articles.