We just posted our monthly report about engineering activity:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/04/engineering-august-2012-report/
You might specifically be interested in these recent pieces of news:
* The localisation team's plan on language teams -- they are requesting
comments:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization_tools/…
* WMF aims to activate the Article Feedback tool to 100% of English
Wikipedia by the end of October 2012, with other wiki projects starting
later this year.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback
* We're working towards a full release of Page Curation on the English
Wikipedia at the end of September 2012.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Curation This should help new page
patrollers.
* There's a roadmap for improvements to tools for admins:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development/Roadmap
And a few more items of interest:
* Changes in our analytics system to improve the accuracy of the active
editors metric
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-…
* What our new analytics team is doing (the new monthly report card and
a data services platform to help us answer questions about our
community):
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/25/meet-the-analytics-team/
* Progress by the i18n team on the Universal Language Selector &
Milkshake, and WebFonts
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/24/webfonts-in-uls-translation-rally/
I also ran into a little bit of confusion yesterday regarding Scribunto,
the MediaWiki extension that will allow people to create templates in
Lua instead of wikitext. People thought it was about to be deployed on
lots of wikis. It's still way early in development, and will not be
enabled on most Wikimedia wikis anytime soon. Right now I'm clarifying
the information on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting --
please feel free to reply and tell me what sort of information you'll be
wanting.
Thanks!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation