As you know, the WMF publishes a monthly and very thorough summary of
all the "development" activity on
mediawiki.org and the WMF blog.
Since a few months, Guillaume is also writing a human-readable summary
which contains the few things every Wikimedia projects editor should
really know.
It would be very nice to have it translated in more languages, because
many (1000+/month) read it rather than the long version.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January/summary>
Direct link to translate:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikimedia+engineering+report%2F2013%2FJanuary%2Fsummary&task=view>
Nemo
P.s.: This would also help WMF's software development projects being
/slightly less/ anglo-centric, IMHO: this is the only way communities
have to give feedback on stuff before it's thrown on them irrecoverably.