This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.12 (8b8c762), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

• The combination of parameters action=raw&templates=expand&section=section number to a page (meaning 'show wikitext for section section number with templates expanded') now actually works; previously templates were incorrectly not expanded in this case. (r30895, bug 12938)
• CAPTCHAs now work correctly in Konqueror. (r30900, bug 4816)
• {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, which is used by templates like {{lowercase}} to change the appearance of an article's title, now works during previews. (r30920, bug 13005)
• Image maps (<imagemap>/{{#tag:imagemap|}}) can now link to external URLs that contain ampersands. (bug 11504)

• Links to redirects are now marked with class='mw-redirect'; this does not cause any change in their appearance by default, but allows the appearance of links to redirects to be customized in user CSS. (r30876, bug 12968)

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.

The Arbitration Committee desysopped Archtransit on Tuesday, February 19, after concerns about the user's administrative actions led to a checkuser, the results of which showed that Archtransit likely controlled many sockpuppets, some of which he had blocked and unblocked previously (possibly to remove the "autoblock" setting that might have revealed his sockpuppet network). A discussion regarding the situation is underway at the administrators' noticeboard.

• The military history WikiProject is holding its fifth coordinator election, with lead coordinator Kirill Lokshin not seeking re-election. Fifteen users are seeking nine co-coordinator spots; it is likely that one of the nine elected will hold a lead coordinator position.
• The English Wikisource has reached 100,000 pages (excluding sub-pages, chapters of various works, etc., GrafZahl has estimated that there are about 24,000 independent works).
• The English Wikipedia has reached 2,222,222 articles, and 200,000,000 edits.
• The Wu Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 users.
• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikibooks has reached 15,000 total pages.

The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and closed two cases, leaving five currently open.

• Waterboarding: A case involving a dispute between a large number of editors on Waterboarding, relating to the question as to whether the technique should be described as torture. As a result of the case, the article was placed on article probation and a "general restriction" imposed.

• Matthew Hoffman: A case involving controversial blocks of MatthewHoffman by Vanished user. As a result of the case, Vanished user was "provisionally" desysopped for six months, and Matthew Hoffman's block log was annotated to reflect the arbitrators' view that the blocks were unjustified.

• Mantanmoreland: A case involving alleged sockpuppetry by Mantanmoreland, which he denies.

• Franco-Mongol alliance: A case involving alleged misconduct over a dispute on Franco-Mongol alliance and related articles.

• Episodes and characters 2: A case involving alleged continuing disruption of articles concerning television series episodes and characters, following on from a prior case. An injunction has been enacted halting certain editing activities on these articles until the case is resolved. Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies prohibiting TTN from requesting merges, redirections or deletions of these articles, and instructing all parties to "cease engaging in editorial conflict and to work collaboratively to develop a generally accepted and applicable approach to the articles in question".

• Ehud Lesar: A case involving a dispute involving Ehud Lesar, with alleged sockpuppetry on his part and alleged harassment by Fedayee, Eupator and others. Sam Blacketer has proposed a remedy, with the support of Kirill Lokshin, finding that there is insufficient evidence of sockpuppetry and overturning the block.

• Highways 2: A case involving editing by NE2 on articles relating to WikiProject U.S. Roads, allegedly against consensus of other editors involved with that wikiproject. A remedy has been proposed counselling editors to consider contributing outside of disputed articles.