That's a really nice initiative indeed! Em 19/06/2013 08:16, "Patricio Lorente" patricio.lorente@gmail.com escreveu:
Charles, this is an amazing initiative. Thanks for sharing, I think we could probably try to do something similar in Argentina.
Patricio2013/6/19 Charles Andrès charles.andres.wmch@gmail.com:
Hello and thanks Bishaka,
We planned two type of post about this story, today or tomorrow we
should publish a short one about the genesis of the project and the relation volunteer/staff.
As president of Wikimedia CH I'm very proud of the work accomplish by
Emmanuel and Chantal, and we would like to share more about this aspect of the project.
The second post will arrive later this year with more information about
the project itself and its usage.
Thanks too, SJ,
"unexpected" refers more to there eager of the newspaper.
It's really rare, if not totally absent, to read positive things about
prisons. In this way, the public "expect" bad news when talking about prison, and when a nice story about prison arise, it's unexpected. :-)
Sincerely
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Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
Le 18 juin 2013 à 10:52, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com a
écrit :
Fantastic - and fascinating.
Would love to see a blog post by someone from the chapter or by one of them.
Bravo for reaching out to forgotten people.
Bishakha
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
wrote:
Charles - How beautiful. Thank you for doing and sharing this. In what way was the partnership unexpected? Did the Bellevue prison approach Wikipedians?
Here is the announcement page w/PDF from the WM-CH site: https://www.wikimedia.ch/%5Bi18n-termpath-raw%5D/wikipedia-jail
SJ
SJ
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com
wrote:
Now THIS is seriously clever! Well done WMCH - that is a truly innovative way to provide access to knowledge to a community who is often forgotten. Can you link to the press release here, please?
-Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
On 17 June 2013 14:15, Charles Andrès charles.andres.wmch@gmail.com
wrote:
Wikipedia for prisoners – an unexpected partnership between a swiss
prison
and Wikimedia CH
Following an initiative from Emmanuel Engelhart, with the support of Wikimedia CH CAO, Chantal Ebongué, since March 2013, prisoners who
request
can have an access to Wikipedia offline (Kiwix project). The idea is
to
stimulate or to support the interest for education of prisoners who
were,
for a large majority, condemned to long-time sentences.
After three months of pilot phasis, the project is successful : Among
the
36 prisoners of the Bellevue’s prison in Gorgier, 18 possess or rent
a
computer. All of them requested the upload of Wikipedia offline on
their
PC. For security reasons, swiss prisoners have a very restricted
access
to
internet.
More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was
sent
today to the swiss media
Regards,
Charles
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