Hi Erik,
our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional $2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to do: make our investment in user experience work permanent, as opposed to releasing most of the current user experience team and ending the project.
great news! Congratulations to Naoko and Trevor.
I really love to see more work done for MediaWiki's usability and user experience on Wikimedia projects.
Regards,
Church of emacs