[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[Charles Andrès]

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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Le 18 juin 2013 à 10:52, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at 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 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
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