Alright, the press release is finished now, the multilingual portal's stats are updated, the 500k'th article has been chosen... the million-article pool has closed. I suppose we'd better date the press release and announce it! On Michael's advice, let's start sending out the release today, and throughout the weekend.

I've updated the text on meta, for those who wish to translate it: http://tinyurl.com/58dnq For the proofreaders out there : please check to make sure there are no stray typos or missing commas.

If you have press contacts in your area, please add them to the logbook and send them a release... if you don't have contacts, now's a good time to make some. When you send a release to someone, make sure you enter their name in the logbook, claim it, and then update it with a timestamp. That way we won't spam anyon with more than one notice. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_release_logbook/pr-en-500k