While you are talking about the 1000th FP and lots of nice commons projects I'd like to make some PR for fairly young project which has been going remarkably well.
At [[Commons:Quality Images]] useres can nominate and ''quickly'' assess images according to a fairly well defined set of technical standards. The process is geared towards speed with minimal administrative overhead. No votes, just one briefly explained assessment (disputes are rare and handled seperately).
So far 1163 images [1] have been given the QI seal of approval, and the number is growing constantly.
[1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dschwen/qi_counter.php