[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[Bishakha Datta]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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
> >>
> >>
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