First of all, I hereby inform everyone of the recently created Administrators' noticeboard, located at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard
Secondly, everyone who is watching recent changes have probably seen that the mass-upload of scans for Wikisource is commencing. I personally had worries about this, but since they do belong on Commons, this flooding-problem must be possible to solve in some technical way.
Third. Because of the ever-increasing traffic, several new admins have been promoted: August 16th, User:Lestath (pl, en-2, la-1) August 17th, User:Cnyborg (no, en-3, +others) August 17th, User:Odder (pl, en-2, de-2) August 30th, User:Platonides (es, en-2, fr-1) August 31st, User:Drini (es, en-3)
We welcome them and hope they will make good use of their admin abilities.
Fourth. Because of the increased traffic, there is a larger backlog, although not critical. There are around 1,100 images without source from July, and 100 left from June. The categories can be reached from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown .
The speedy delete categories should never have a backlog. Recently the copyright violation category, located at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Against_policy , was up to 140 images, which is too much. Now it is down to about 50 which is acceptable, but keep an eye on it. In case anyone is interested, there is also a category for duplicates, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Duplicate , that hardly gets any attention.
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs Linux and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is available!
/ Fred-Chess