News and notes: Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized
In the news: Why Wikipedia survives while others haven’t; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out
WikiProject report: History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP
Featured content: Brazil’s boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic
Arbitration report: Case requests on ethnic strife and a WikiProject in disrepute declined, Abortion case stalls but topic bans look to be lightened on amendment
Technology report: WMDE renew investment in Toolserver, first offsite backup programme of Wikimedia begun