I've put up a draft press release to celebrate the English WP's 500,000th article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/March_2005 It is not quite like our previous press releases; see what you think, edit and improve on it. It should eventually mention the 500,000th article by name, so see if you can spot it as it zooms by. Here is a meta-page for translating the release (though you should wait until the end of the weekend, say, once it has been edited a bit): http://tinyurl.com/58dnq Why translate an EN-centered press release? For one thing, it is not *only* an English-language press release; it is celebrating the project as a whole. For another, all major project announcements should be multilingual. For instance, I would like to see it sent to the many spanish- and chinese-language newspapers (among others) in the US. Skimming through the circulation numbers in Bacon's media directory, it is surprising to see how broad their audiences are; I have no doubt that the bulk of their readers read English to some extent, and could both benefit from EN: and help bridge the gap between it and their native language-edition. -- +sj+