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.

• Special:Recentchangeslinked ('Related changes') has been improved to be more like Special:Recentchanges: (r36682)
  • Related changes now has the option to show/hide minor, bot, and IP edits. (bug 4832http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4832, bug 12890http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12890)
  • Related changes now allows namespace selection. (bug 9481http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9481)
• When an administrator creates a new user, and the username given is similar to another user's username, AntiSpoof now prompts to ask whether to create the username rather than just creating it regardless. (r36760, bug 13426)

• 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.

All individual votes in the Board of Trustees election have been released. From these votes, other voting methods can be compared to the voting method selected for the 2008 election, the Schulze method. We tested the votes using approval voting (the method used in prior elections) and Instant-runoff voting. (Because it's impossible to tell how many candidates each voter approves of, for the purposes of this comparison we assume that any candidate marked as the first choice for an individual voter is "approved"). Neither of these methods result in any changes in the top three positions, though some lower positions do result in slight changes. The results are below.

• Wikinews is planning an interview with Åse Kleveland, a Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician. She served as Norway's Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1996, and was president of the Swedish Film Institute from 2000 to 2006. Questions are being solicited for the interview, and input there is requested.
• Galizionario, the Galician Wiktionary, has reached 20,000 entries.

This week, the Arbitration Committee briefly announced the result of a privately-decided case involving Orangemarlin; amid some criticism, the case was blanked by the Arbitration Committee, and a public case has been filed instead (see related story).

The Arbitration Committee also announced a series of proposals relating to arbitration and other community matters; none of these have yet been acted on (see related story).

Apart from those announcements, the Arbitration Committee opened one case last week, and closed one case, leaving three cases currently open.

• Homeopathy: A dispute involving a number of editors over the Homeopathy article. As a result of the case, DanaUllman was banned for one year, and another remedy allows uninvolved administrators to impose strict sanctions on editors involved in Homeopathy-related articles, for various reasons.

• Yorkshirian: A case involving perceived incivility from Yorkshirian; Yorkshirian has not yet presented evidence in the case. The case is currently in the evidence phase.

• C68-FM-SV: A case involving disputes between Cla68, FeloniousMonk, SlimVirgin, JzG, and others. The case has seen little activity over the last few weeks.

• Giovanni33: A case involving the accusation of sockpuppetry by Giovanni33. The Committee has named at least fifteen accounts as likely sockpuppets of Giovanni33. Remedies with the support of four arbitrators would ban Giovanni33 and his proxy accounts for one year, and, at the expiration of the ban, allow the Committee to vote on whether to reban him for an additional year, with the same process to occur ad infinitum unless the ban is not renewed.