Our last milestone-related press release (en 500K)
received virtually no
attention. Most major newspapers and magazines have already run stories
on us, it's not like we need to tell them we exist. Why not save the
press releases for when we actually have news?
No, the last milestone-related press release was the Commons reaching
100,000 uploads, which, despite not being sent out to many places
(<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K/log-en>),
did see some press coverage, mostly in Germany
(<http://news.google.com/news?hl=de&q=wikimedia>)
Also, as Przykuta notes, the milestone will be shortly before
Wikimania, so the release need not focus only on the milestone, but
include details of the conference, since we should know by then who
most of the speakers are, meaning we will have something other than a
new milestone to announce.
Angela.