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