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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Charles ANDRES, Chairman >> "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – >> www.wikimedia.ch >> Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 >> Skype: charles.andres.wmch >> IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
