[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[Patricio Lorente]

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 en gmail.com>:
> 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 en 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 en 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 en 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 en 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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