Wikimania Bid/2010/Press/Win

DRAFT PRESS RELEASE FOR AFTER BID RESULTS ARE KNOWN (if we win!)

OXFORD TO HOST GLOBAL WIKIPEDIA CONFERENCE

Hundreds to visit city

Oxford will host a global conference next year bring together hundreds of people who contribute to the Wikipedia family of websites. The "Wikimania" conference is an annual conference focused on how to improve the websites and make them more accessible to potential users.

The first Wikimania conference was held in Frankfurt, in 2005, and since then have been held in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Taipei and Alexandria in Egypt.

A local team of volunteers put together a bid that beat competition from cities around world, including Amsterdam, Gdansk and Stockholm.

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Note to editors

Wikipedia is now the most popular general reference work on the internet. With 12 million articles, all available under free copyright licenses ..... There are approximately 2,000 people in the UK who regularly contribute to Wikipedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit Florida-registered charity which owns the Wikipedia website and nine other projects, including a news source, a media repository and a dictionary. The projects are published in over 250 languages.

Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit organisation, registered in England and Wales, to support the Wikimedia projects.

Wikimania 2010 will be held