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...@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 <liamwy...@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.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 > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > 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