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Wikipedia & SCI's "Wikipedia 4 Peace" work camp, Mont Soleil, Villa Dezentrale, 16 - 25.03.2018
We would like to inform you that we are really happy these days, as cooperation between SCI Switzerland and Wikipedia was established in recent months.

Wikipedia is multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia and the largest and most popular reference of the work on the Internet. After SCI Austria and SCI Germany, who already managed to organise "Wikipedia 4 Peace" work camp in recent years, SCI Switzerland organised "Wikipedia 4 peace" work camp this year as well.

In March 2018, in extremely beautiful environment of amazing Jura mountain region, environmental and social justice activists from Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Netherland, Greece, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy and Switzerland, gathered in Villa Dezentrale on Mont Soleil.

After first activities, getting to know each other, ice breaking games, team building activities, expressing personal needs, hopes, expectations and fears, Introduction to Program activities, and other non formal activities, activists learned how to use Wikipedia's tools how they would be able to translate existing Wikipedia's articles, that are dedicated to Social and Environmental justice movements.

Beside translation of existing articles, participants of this work camp learned also how to edit existing articles, but how to write new articles as well.

During 10 days, activists watched several films, among which one worth of mentioning was "The Borneo Case", documentary film about destruction of rain forest in Borneo, timber mafia, indigenous people who are loosing their habitat, and famous Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser and his engagement. In his honour we decided to translate the article about his life and engagement on as many languages as possible.

We spoke also about a lot about problems that we are facing nowadays as society. Global warming and climate change would be only some of them, but what was even better was that we spoke more about solutions and good examples of practice that are already existing all over the world.

Some of these solutions, adaptation and mitigation to climate change are everywhere. Participants were really inspired these case studies that different grassroots movements are offering and not only on micro scale, but also on global scale.

Permaculture movement, Transition movement, FairCoop movement - are names of only several movements that are working on establishing of social and environmental justice. We spoke about social ecology, political ecology,

Motivation, inspiration and commitment of participants were on high level and therefore we agreed that we will not stop on this. We will remain in contact and we will continue to promote our values, such as peace, internationalism, cooperation and fairness in other projects as well, how on communal level, so on regional and global as well.

We decided to launch an open call to everyone who would be interested to join. So, feel free and contact us and yes, see you soon in some of our upcoming activities. Stay tuned and contact your closest local brunch of SCI or Wikipedia.

Peace!

Nikola