If this is going to be updated each time the databases are backed up, then I think it would be a great idea to add a link to http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm on each wiki's Special:Statistics page (translations will be needed though). These stats are awesome!

I've already added a link to this page on our next press release. Speaking of which, we still need to set-up the Wikimedia Foundation website and the paypal (or whatever) service to accept donations. Has anything been done along these lines yet? I'm willing to help but I don't know where to start...

The stats are also very useful in that we can now estimate with some degree of accuracy, a range of dates we might hit the 300,000 article milestone; in my estimation that will happen somewhere between 35 to 50 days from Aug 14, depending on how fast our growth rate increases (this assumes no significant bot activity). So we still have time to set everything up (including the new hardware Jimbo is buying; Thanks Jimbo!) if we start now.

Just another reminder: Swedish, Danish, and Dutch are specifically mentioned and linked to in the press release but so far nobody has volunteered to translate the press release into those languages. Please see: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia%27s_first_press_release#Transl...

Also, French, Polish, Swedish, and Danish are all mentioned and linked to in the press release but so far nobody has volunteered to be the press contact coordinators for those languages. Please see: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia%27s_first_press_release#Ambass...

Of course, the more languages the press release is translated into, and the more languages that are represented by a press contact coordinator, the better.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)