- We will try to encourage prisoners to contribute and try to animate
Wikipedia centric activities - similar approach as in the Afripedia project.
Regarding the asynchronous contributions: This is a pretty complicated
topic which (often) deals with challenging technical and cultural issues. But discussion if pretty open and new experimentations are welcome.
If users can not have direct write access to Wikimedia projects, I wonder if a proxy system could be set-up whereas they could write letters and the letters get scanned and posted. Instructions could be provided in offline versions of Wikipedia and whatnot that would tell people to write a letter to some address (maybe they could provide a username in their letter). Volunteers could then scan those letters and upload a file attachment (and/or transcription) of that letter to the user page. When possible, such users could provide instructions on how to write to them.
Ideally, I would imagine such a project being set-up outside of Wikimedia and simply providing for a way for people without write access to the Internet could do such a thing. However, in the meantime, I think setting up a Wikimedia by Proxy project separate from any one project under the Wikimedia umbrella could be a nice way to begin.