Hi,

Here are some ways to see stats beyond article numbers:

1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles

2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article

3. Taking Tamil Wikipedia as an example:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm

For your own language, replace the language code in the URL above.

Things to look:

* Total, new, active and very active wikipedians every month.
* The table which says "The following table ranks this project in relation to projects in other languages with 1000+ articles". It seems they stopped compiling complete stats since April 2010. It would be nice to do at least once in a year again.

Thanks,

Ravi