[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[JP Béland]

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 at gmail.com>:
> 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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>>>>>> "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
>>>>>> www.wikimedia.ch
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>>>>>>
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