[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[Oona Castro]

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

> 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 at 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 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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