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Charles Andrès

17 Jun 2013 17 Jun '13

7:15 a.m.

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 ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch

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Liam Wyatt

17 Jun 17 Jun

7:29 a.m.

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:

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Federico Leva (Nemo)

8:14 a.m.

Charles Andrès, 17/06/2013 16:15:

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This is a project I've loved since the first time I heard about it: it's socially crucial. I look forward to a future when I'm able to give Wikipedia/Wikisource workshops in the two big jails near my home, to further the article 27th of the Italian constitution. Nemo

Samuel Klein

10:35 a.m.

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Bishakha Datta

18 Jun 18 Jun

1:52 a.m.

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:

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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

internet. More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was sent today to the swiss media Regards, Charles ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Craig Franklin

1:54 a.m.

This is a really wonderful project, I am a big believer in producing educational opportunities to gaoled prisoners so that they can lead more productive lives upon their release, and hopefully this project goes a little way towards making that happen. Bravo, Wikimedia CH! Cheers, Craig Franklin On 18 June 2013 00:15, Charles Andrès <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Robert Rohde

6:45 p.m.

Very cool. I'm curious, did the prison have any concerns about content or want things filtered out? I've know that some prisons don't allow reading material that is sexual, violent, etc. Did restrictions like that have to be considered? Obviously, most of Wikipedia is pretty mundane, but if you look hard enough I'm sure some people might find things to object to. -Robert Rohde On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Charles Andrès <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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rupert THURNER

19 Jun 19 Jun

1:13 a.m.

Hi Robert, no censoring, filtering, or monitoring. Its the full French wikipedia. Afaiu emmanuel it was not discussed, but he explicitly pointed out that all articles are there including the ones about arms. Rupert Am 19.06.2013 03:46 schrieb "Robert Rohde" <rarohde(a)gmail.com>om>:

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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 ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Jane Darnell

1:37 a.m.

The problem with static offline versions of Wikipedia is that it doesn't allow any interaction at all, so you are virtually cutting off the ability of the reader to become an editor. I am sure many people will feel that prisoners probably don't have a lot of positive information to contribute, or perhaps would not do this in good faith, but theoretically there should be some channel back for them to voice corrections or additions, possibly through some sort of local collaboration committee? I think this application of Wikipedia is great, but it is also crippled. If we had an incubator system where this type of offline application of Wikipedia could collect edits in a daily batch process for intermediate curation it would be good. Something like this might also useful for education programs with kindergartens or grade schools. We have claimed in the past that a 17-year-old can be smarter than a Ph.D. on any specific issue, but actually, age or environment is arbitrary, no? 2013/6/19, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>om>:

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Wikipedia for prisoners – an unexpected partnership between a swiss

prison and Wikimedia CH

Following an initiative from Emmanuel Engelhart, with the support of

After three months of pilot phasis, the project is successful : Among

More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was sent

today to the swiss media

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Emmanuel Engelhart

1:58 a.m.

Dear Jane Le 19/06/2013 10:37, Jane Darnell a écrit :

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I agree. The problem with life is that you will never get everything you want. The good news is: You still have plenty of opportunities and this is already a lot! More seriously: * We know this is used as an "entry door" for other cultural/educative activities by part of the prisoners * 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. Join us at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l Kind regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

Per A.J. Andersson

2:07 a.m.

2013-06-19, 10:13, skrev rupert THURNER:

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Interesting. Do you know how much data that involves? The last count here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaFR.htm is from 2009 (3.5 GB), so I guess even now it will be easily manageable. Best of wishes, /Per

Federico Leva (Nemo)

2:11 a.m.

Jane Darnell, 19/06/2013 10:37:

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Emmanuel is also working on a way for Kiwix to collect feedback/proposed edits for articles. It's a bit tricky to design, of course; probably pl.wiki and Wiktionary's examples will help. Nemo

Charles Andrès

2:13 a.m.

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 ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. 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(a)gmail.com> a écrit :

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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

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Patricio Lorente

4:16 a.m.

Charles, this is an amazing initiative. Thanks for sharing, I think we could probably try to do something similar in Argentina. Patricio 2013/6/19 Charles Andrès <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com>om>:

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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

> internet. > > More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was sent > today to the swiss media > > Regards, > > Charles > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Charles ANDRES, Chairman > "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – > www.wikimedia.ch > Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 > Skype: charles.andres.wmch > IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Oona Castro

6:23 a.m.

That's a really nice initiative indeed! Em 19/06/2013 08:16, "Patricio Lorente" <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com> escreveu:

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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 ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. 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(a)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(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

>>>> 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

>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> ___________________________________________________________ >>>> Charles ANDRES, Chairman >>>> "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – >>>> www.wikimedia.ch >>>> Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 >>>> Skype: charles.andres.wmch >>>> IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe:

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JP Béland

6:23 a.m.

Perhaps there is a better channel to discuss that, but why Kiwix is only Wikipedia especially since the French Wiktionary is one of the most developed? JP 2013/6/19, Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com>om>:

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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 >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Charles ANDRES, Chairman >> "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – >> www.wikimedia.ch >> Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 >> Skype: charles.andres.wmch >> IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Emmanuel Engelhart

6:32 a.m.

Le 19/06/2013 15:23, JP Béland a écrit :

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Perhaps there is a better channel to discuss that, but why Kiwix is only Wikipedia especially since the French Wiktionary is one of the most developed?

Lack of time :( On the agenda :) Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

Balázs Viczián

7:43 a.m.

Interesting, strange and scary at the same time. Unfortunately I don't see much chance with such a program here in Hungary; at least not in that prison where I did time... 2x10 hours to do a contract photo job before christmas in 3 consecutive years :) I bet if you check the stats what pages they've visited, it will be almost exclusively porn an maybe some prison break stuff :) Congrats WMCH for such a unique program! Balazs 2013/6/19 Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com>

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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. :-)

écrit :

wrote:

>>>> 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

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Matthew Roth

9:40 a.m.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Charles Andrès < charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

Charles, If you're inclined, I'd be happy to syndicate your post on the Wikimedia blog, or however you might want to approach it. I think it would be great to get this as much attention as we can. If you're interested, we often draft on Meta wiki here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts Please also let me know if you're doing social media messages about it, as we can repeat/share/retweet etc from the Wikip/media accounts. -Matthew

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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 ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. 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(a)gmail.com> a écrit :

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> 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>

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>> 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

>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________ >>> Charles ANDRES, Chairman >>> "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – >>> www.wikimedia.ch >>> Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 >>> Skype: charles.andres.wmch >>> IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529

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Joshua Gay

28 Jun 28 Jun

6:52 a.m.

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* We will try to encourage prisoners to contribute and try to animate

Wikipedia centric activities - similar approach as in the Afripedia project.

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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.

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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.

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Balázs Viczián
Bishakha Datta
Charles Andrès
Craig Franklin
Emmanuel Engelhart
Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jane Darnell
Joshua Gay
JP Béland
Liam Wyatt
Matthew Roth
Oona Castro
Patricio Lorente
Per A.J. Andersson
Robert Rohde
rupert THURNER
Samuel Klein