A few French wkipedians are not happy with the board and some of the employees. They are about 25-30% of Wikimedia France members
To be honest, 25-30% of WMFR members is quite a lot. And, don't forget, include roughly half of the Wikimedia France Board elected at the last General Assembly.
This isn't the first governance crisis in the Wikimedia movement (WMF and other chapters have certainly had them) but it is probably the biggest and most long-drawn-out.
And those people refuse to acknowledge reality, even when the board explains everything, even when lawyers explains what can and cannot be done within a chapter.
To my mind the board's "explanations" are part of the problem. Reading the statements from WMFR about the FDC process, or their emails to members or their response to the timeline - it's all about how WMFR has never been wrong about anything. All the criticism is wrong (and probably a conspiracy). WMFR's board has been doing the only thing they could possibly have done. All of this is repeated again and again.
That is a dysfunctional response to the situation. A significant part of the French Wikimedia community has lost confidence in WMFR. The Board should be working to restore that confidence, and the more it denies the problem is real, the worse the result will be.
Regards,
Chris