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(a)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(a)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(a)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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