The Wikimedia Foundation's 2008 fundraiser continued this week, raising over $266,000 in its third week and bringing total fundraiser contributions to $1,148,200 over the first three weeks. Including major gifts, the Foundation had raised over $3.05 million so far this fiscal year (since July 1).

• After the upgrade of various Wikimedia file servers, the Wikimedia upload limit was increased from 20MB per file to 100MB per file, although Wikimedia CTO Brion Vibber noted that the increased limit was experimental, and some larger files may be affected by post size limits.
• A vote on a new logo for Wikibooks is ongoing on the Meta-Wiki.
• This week, the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia was created.
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 15,000,000 edits.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 333,333 articles.
• The Gilaki Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee neither opened nor closed any cases this week, leaving three open.

• Cold fusion: A case involving conduct disputes around the article Cold fusion.

• Kuban Kazak-Hillock65: A case involving a dispute between Hillock65 and Kuban kazak. A proposed decision currently being voted upon by arbitrators would, if adopted, ban Kuban kazak from editing Wikipedia for one year.

• Piotrus 2: The latest in a series of cases involving alleged edit-warring and other misconduct by numerous editors on articles pertaining to Eastern Europe. The case, which has been open for over two months, involves a large number of users not originally named as parties to the case, but named in a proposed decision drafted by arbitrator Kirill Lokshin. If adopted, the proposed decision would, among other things, ban certain named editors and impose various restrictions on others, while noting that allegations of misconduct on other users were not established by the evidence. Arbitrator voting on several of the remedy proposals is split.