Kurt-
Sending out a press release would be an awfully foolish thing to do. As long as I get the error message "Server not found" every other time (and I'm not exaggerating) I click on a page and as long as uploads, search function etc. etc. are disabled, drawing attention to Wikipedia would be enormously counter-productive.
Of course.
Just imagine the same thing happened to the IMDb or similar sites!
Well, they have a lot more money than we do. And a lot more ads.
Still hoping that Wikipedia will run properly one day,
You know where to go to help out: http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising
Regards,
Erik