[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

[Matthew Roth]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Charles Andrès <
charles.andres.wmch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Charles,
If you're inclined, I'd be happy to syndicate your post on the Wikimedia
blog, or however you might want to approach it. I think it would be great
to get this as much attention as we can.

If you're interested, we often draft on Meta wiki here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts

Please also let me know if you're doing social media messages about it, as
we can repeat/share/retweet etc from the Wikip/media accounts.

-Matthew



>
> 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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