Very cool. I'm curious, did the prison have any concerns about content or want things filtered out?
I've know that some prisons don't allow reading material that is sexual, violent, etc. Did restrictions like that have to be considered? Obviously, most of Wikipedia is pretty mundane, but if you look hard enough I'm sure some people might find things to object to. -Robert Rohde On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Charles Andrès <charles.andres.w...@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 > > > ___________________________________________________________ > 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 > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
