📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was started in 2001 and is today one of the most popular websites worldwide, being used by internet users all over the world for its open content created by volunteer writers. Over 38 million articles in over 250 languages exist already. This camp is the first cooperation between Wikimedia Switzerland, a local chapter of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and SCI Switzerland. Similar cooperation happened in Austria and Germany between SCI and the local Wikimedia chapters before. We will get to know Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and will support the aim to make quality content about climate and social justice in the frame of the SCI campaign climate4peace.
💼 What the programme involves
Doing research for Wikipedia articles, translating articles and improving existing articles in your native language (or for skilled editors writing new articles). This year we will mainly translate and improve articles on climate and social justice. The project organizers will prepare a list of articles about grassroots movements and a focus more one female activist.It is crucial that you are interested in climate protection, social justice and peace issues and web culture, that you like writing and that you like to do research on your own and in groups. You dont have to have knowledge on Wikipedia already.
🏠 Accommodation on site
We will intentionally live a simple and sustainable lifestyle during the workcamp. The old art-nouveau villa houses up to 16 people and provides workshop rooms, the kitchen and social living space. There are dormitory rooms with beds, bed sheets, blankets and pillows. Meals will be vegan ( please inform you beforehand about recipes to get familiar with it; SCI volunteers are in charge of cooking and cleaning. A washing machine is available. Please be aware that the house is rather cold and there is a dog and a cat.
📍 About the location
Mont-Soleil is a small hamlet at the edge of the Franche Montagne high-plateau in the Jura mountains of Switzerland. It is part of the community of St-Imier.
ℹ️ Additional information
Take a look at the former workcamp:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0sgq1wyNC8-https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_Peace_Switzerland_2019Mont-Soleil is a small hamlet at the edge of the Franche Montagne high-plateau in the Jura mountains of Switzerland. It is part of the community of St-Imier. Mont-Soleil is known in Switzerland for its educational eco-tourism offerings and as a show case for solar and wind energy technologies and installations as part of the Swiss Energy Park. It is at the heart of Chasseral Nature Park. The DEcentrale is situated a 2 minutes walk from the cable railway, offering a 4 minute ride down to St-Imier, the small town 400 meters below in the valley, with its Espace Noir autonomous culture center and small commerce.