Wikimedia-tn October 2017

wikimedia-tn@lists.wikimedia.org

13 participants
25 discussions

Re: [Wikimedia-tn] Reporting an issue from [Carthagina] - WMTNUG Decision
by Afek Ben Chahed 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Bonjour, Je confirme ma présence. Amicalement, Afek Le 8 oct. 2017 19:26, "Wikimedia Tunisia" <contact(a)wikimedia.tn> a écrit : Dear members of the Wikipedia TN User Group, Thank you very much for all your emails. It was not easy to take such decision especially that Mounir was one of the most active Wikimedian in the group but as cofounders we had to take this decision in order to help our community moving forward without any distraction and contribute productively within a safe and harassment-free working space. We hope that this situation will never happen again. We are still a growing young community, every member matters regardless his level of contribution and as Katherine Maher said recently “Your edit count is not your contribution”. To move forward we would like to invite you to a meetup next Saturday 14th of Oct in Tunis (location to be confirmed later) at 3 pm to discuss the group organisation and our ongoing/future activities. Wikimedia TN User Group Le 20/09/2017 à 21:39, Wikimedia Tunisia a écrit : > Dear Mounir Touzri, > > It was not easy for us to write this email but we had to do it for the > sake of keeping a healthy community and avoid harassment and disruptive > behavior within our group. > > We have read your answer to the harassment and other accusations > reported by Emna Mizouni on behalf of some members of our community. > > Even though there was something in our hearts trying to believe you or > maybe hoping for more arguments, your official reply (received after > more than two weeks from Habib’s email) was not convincing. > > Unfortunately the collected evidences and the number of members that we > contacted and who confirmed the accusations, that were mentioned in the > incident received, add to that the official ban from our partner > Carthagina, brought us to take a hard decision and to take this case to > an upper level. > > We do believe that all our members deserve a safe and harassment-free > working space in which they can contribute productively and debate > constructively. > > As a wikimedian you must know that within our movement we preach for > certain code of conduct based on civility and respect and as founders of > this group it belongs to us to look after this and to not tolerate any > disruptive behavior. > > With all the respect that we have for your valuable contributions to the > wikimedia projects and to the group activities, we, as co-founders of > the Wikimedia TN User Group, regret to inform you that based on > > + the Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative, > > + the Friendly space policy for Wikimedia Foundation events, > > + and our community code of conduct that the following decisions > have been discussed and approved to: > > 1- Withdraw your membership from the Wikimedia TN User Group and kindly > ask you to not organise any activity or project on behalf of the group, > > 2-Inform the Wikimedia Foundation about this decision, > > 3-Inform all the other Wikimedia affiliates (user groups, chapters etc.) > that you, no longer, represent the Wikimedia TN User Group in any activity, > > 4-Handover any ongoing activity initiated on behalf of the group. > > It saddens us to take this decision but we do believe that it’s the > right thing to help our community moving forward without any distraction > in order to fulfill our commitments. > > Wikimedia TN User Group > > Agreement signers > > Habib Mhenni > > Yamen Bousrih-- > ....................... > Wikimedia TN User Group > http://wikimedia.tn > > Le 19/08/2017 à 22:45, Mounir Touzri a écrit : >> >> >> أعضاء ويكيميديا تونس >> >> أولا وقبل كل شيء أنا آسف لتأخير جوابي كما أشكر حبيب على الرد الرزين >> و المتعقل، >> هذه الرسالة خطيرة جدا و هنالك العديد من المغالطات،ثانيا سأجيب >> فقط على الأسئلة التي طلبها مني حبيب ، >> ، كان هدفي دوما دعم مجتمع ويكيميديا تونس بكل الطرق لكن و >> للأسف بعض الأعضاء لا يرغبون بي في المجموعة، >> أولا بالنسبة للإهانةوالمضايقة انا لم أقم بذالك >> >> ثانيا بالنسبة للأصوات نعم اقترحت على بعض الأعضاء دعم عضو >> معين لحضور مؤتمر و لم افرض عليهم التصويت له ،فقط كان اقتراح و >> هذا لكي يتمكن كل الاعضاء من المشاركة في مؤتمرات ويكيميديا >> وتحفيز كل الأعضاء و كان كل الاعضاء متفقين في هذه النقطة بعد >> الاتصال بهممع العلم العضو المقترح لم يشارك في أي مؤتمر سابق ، و على >> كل حال كل شخص حر في رأيه و كانوا قادرين على التصويت لشخص آخر >> او رفض التصويت مثل باقي الأعضاء >> بالنسبة للمنح أولا يجب التذكير هنالك نوعان من المنح منح >> شخصية و منح مع مجموعات انا لم أقم بتقديم طلب منحة باسم >> ويكيميديا تونس بعد اجتماع سوسة و بالنسبة للمنحة الشخصية فهو >> أمر شخصي بيني و بين مؤسسة ويكيميديا و لا علاقة له بالمجموعة ، >> مع العلم تم ذكر هذا الموضوع في اجتماع سوسة، كل شخص يمكنه أن يقدم >> طلب منحة شخصية و يتحمل المسؤولية كاملة مع مؤسسة ويكيميديا و >> لا دخل للمجموعة بهذه المنحة، و هذا الأمر يقومون به في كل الدول ، >> >> بمناسبة المنح يجب القيام بمنحة سريعة أو إرجاع المبلغ المتبقي >> للمؤسسة في خصوص المبلغ المتبقي من منحة اجتماع سوسة >> >> أخيرا انا اسف على هذا الأمر و حز في نفسي بعد ثلاث سنوات >> كعضو في المجموعة ان اجد نفسي في هذا الموقف ، >> >> >> >> 2017-08-14 16:11 GMT+01:00 Habib M'henni <habib.mhenni(a)gmail.com >> <mailto:habib.mhenni@gmail.com>>: >> >> Dear Mounir, >> >> Can you please comment this issue? >> By the end of this week (Sunday, August 20th) we will move to the >> next step on discussions. >> >> Cordially, >> >> Habib Mhenni >> On behalf of the Wikimedia TN User Group (legal final agreement signer) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ >> *De :* Habib M'henni <habib.mhenni(a)wikimedia.tn >> <mailto:habib.mhenni@wikimedia.tn>> >> *Envoyé :* 7 août 2017 14:24:10 GMT+01:00 >> *À :* Emna Mizouni <emna.mizouni(a)gmail.com >> <mailto:emna.mizouni@gmail.com>>, Wikimedia TN User Group Mailing >> List <wikimedia-tn(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> <mailto:wikimedia-tn@lists.wikimedia.org>>, Yamen Bousrih >> <bousrihyamen(a)yahoo.com <mailto:bousrihyamen@yahoo.com>> >> *Objet :* Re: [Wikimedia-tn] Reporting an issue from [Carthagina] >> >> Dear Emna, >> Thanks for sharing this report with our community. Carthagina and >> it's members belong in our beliefs and concerns about sharing >> knowledge and preserving our heritage. We are still pleased to >> collaborate together to promote our activities in a safety way. >> >> Dear Wikimedians of the *Wikimedia TN User Group* we (as Co-founder >> of the group) are very sorry to hear such statements. >> >> Mounir is a very active member and helped so much to achieve many of >> our programs. >> >> Dear Mounir, I would hear about your comments upon this points: >> 1. Do you confirm any of these behaviours from the report? >> 2. If not, would you explain to our community what did really >> happened, and I insist about >> a- the *harassment* point ; >> b- gossiping (vote issues) ; >> c- asking grants without informing the community. >> >> Dear members, please abstain from any comments until Mounir replies. >> I remind you that this ML is not restricted (views). >> >> Cordially, >> >> Habib M'henni >> >> Le 7 août 2017 11:51:48 GMT+01:00, Emna Mizouni >> <emna.mizouni(a)gmail.com <mailto:emna.mizouni@gmail.com>> a écrit : >> >> Dear co-founders of the group, >> >> Dear Wikimedia TN User Group members, >> >> >> >> I trust my email finds you all in good shape. I'm writing to you >> on my capacity as Carthagina current President. >> >> >> I’m addressing this email to the co-founders of the group as the >> legitimate co-chairs and to the community as well because we are >> partners in several successful projects (MedinaPedia, GLAM) and >> contests (WLM, WLA,...). We strongly value this partnership and >> we would like to maintain it for more joint work (the ongoing >> GLAM project in the Diocesan Library, the upcoming photo >> contests, the next MedinaPedia Dougga and Sfax,...). >> >> >> I would like to report an issue between a member of this >> community and some members of my team - Carthagina that has gone >> bigger than expected. >> >> >> In Carthagina, we value people and we value our team's work and >> of course our partners. Partner for once, partner forever. We, >> as well, prioritise the diversity and homogeneity of the team. >> >> >> Jamel Ben Saidane (a wikimedian and Human Resources Officer - >> Carthagina) and I received a complaint from Afek Ben Chahed and >> Zeineb Takouti, two members of Carthagina and active >> Wikimedians. They reported several times the misbehaviour of the >> Wikimedian Mounir Touzri. The situation kept escalating to the >> point of insulting Zeineb and devaluing her work. Harassing Afek >> and trying to influence her to split Carthagina and Wikimedia TN >> UG members. Afek reported as well that Mounir has stolen one of >> her ideas of Wiki University Clubs. >> >> >> Side conversations took place containing gossiping, shouting on >> the phone and depreciation toward these members. It became an >> unhealthy environment to volunteer. It suddenly became a very >> contagious atmosphere where my teammates felt frustrated and >> affected in a way to have incidents within the core staff of >> Carthagina (when Mounir started reaching out to Issam Barhoumi >> and Samy Mlouhi). >> >> >> /I would like to thank Habib and Yamen who called the members to >> motivate them in several occasions showing a good model of >> leadership./ >> >> >> But this is not all. The complaint that I would like to hand to >> you as a Wikimedian, contains influencing voting. Several >> members confirmed that Mounir contacted them privately to ask >> them to vote for a specific person. The way that he acts as the >> owner of the every new members faith; X person can go to attend >> Y conference while Z person is not welcome to attend ... >> >> May I remind you that this kind of behaviour made us lose one of >> the active and enthusiastic wikipedian few year ago (I’m talking >> here about Wael Ghabara). >> >> >> I would like to also highlight that myself as well as other >> wikimedians, have concerns about the grants that Mounir is >> receiving without letting us know. I recall our Wikimedia TN >> meeting organised by Mounir himself in Sousse early March, when >> we all agreed that all grant requests should be known by the >> community and go through our unique fiscal sponsor CLibre. >> >> From our side in Carthagina, for the first time in our history >> we activated our policy and decided unanimously to ban >> definitely Mounir Touzri from all our activities, projects and >> venue. We declare him as a "Persona non grata". This decision >> was taken based on our code of conduct and all our members, >> observer-members and board of trustees voted for it. This is the >> hardest decision, we took in Carthagina, especially that Mounir >> was considered part of our community and that he helped us in >> the WM-Carthagina events. But unfortunately, we cannot >> allow/accept this kind of behaviour from someone who's supposed >> to know our policy as well as the Wikimedia friendly space policy. >> >> >> The Carthagina meeting minutes would be shared with Yamen and >> Habib and if you would like to hear more concerns from our team >> about the Wikimedia related issues, my team and I are happy to >> collaborate. >> >> >> It saddens me to write this email but the situation needed an >> action to stop the abuse from growing bigger than it is. >> >> >> Sadly >> >> Emna >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Digital Manager - British Council Tunisia >> >> >> Affiliations Committee Member - Wikimedia Foundation >> Founder & President of Carthagina >> >> >> >> -- >> Emna Mizouni >> http://about.me/emna.mizouni >> >> <http://about.me/emna.mizouni> >> >> >> *Mobile:* >> *+21623550150 >> * >> >> <mailto:mehdi.dahmen@hotmail.fr> >> >> >> >> Habib M'henni >> User:Dyolf77 >> Wikimedia TN User Group >> -- >> Habib M'henni >> http://about.me/habibmhenni >> — >> Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez >> excuser ma brièveté. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Amicalement >> Mounir Touzri >> Touzrimounir(a)gmail.com <mailto:Touzrimounir@gmail.com> >> +216 29 774 346 <tel:29%20774%20346> >> Member Wikimedia TN user group >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-tn mailing list >> Wikimedia-tn(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-tn >> **** >> Ceci est un courriel diffusé sur la Mailing List officielle de Wikimedia TN User Group, pour vous désinscrire, visitez https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-tn >> > -- ....................... Wikimedia TN User Group http://wikimedia.tn _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-tn mailing list Wikimedia-tn(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-tn **** Ceci est un courriel diffusé sur la Mailing List officielle de Wikimedia TN User Group, pour vous désinscrire, visitez https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-tn

1 0

Fwd: Do you think Wikipedia belongs in education?
by Emna Mizouni 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nichole Saad <qualtrics(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:24 PM Subject: Do you think Wikipedia belongs in education? To: Emna Mizouni <emna.mizouni(a)gmail.com> Hello! Just a quick reminder to complete the Education Program Perception Survey. The survey will close Oct 15th. This survey will help us understand how we can improve the materials and resources distributed by the Wikimedia Education Team, to make them more useful for you: Wikimedians, program leaders, and education professionals. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Education_Team_Audience_Survey_Privacy…> We really appreciate your feedback! *Follow this link to the Survey: * Take the Survey <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3t7yiZ85FyN9WyF?Q_DL=4OBKXKO6xo…> Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3t7yiZ85FyN9WyF?Q_DL= 4OBKXKO6xo8ouWh_3t7yiZ85FyN9WyF_MLRP_6mLuMqaNLJv5ofH&Q_CHL=email Follow the link to opt out of future emails: Click here to unsubscribe <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/CP/Register.php?OptOut=true&RID=MLRP_6mLuMq…>

1 0

Fwd: [African Wikimedians] Invitation to Wikipedia Translation Hackathon Wed. Oct 11, 2-4pm at LaGuardia CC
by Sami Mlouhi 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: AfroCROWD <Sherry(a)afrocrowd.org> Date: 2017-10-09 13:30 GMT+01:00 Subject: [African Wikimedians] Invitation to Wikipedia Translation Hackathon Wed. Oct 11, 2-4pm at LaGuardia CC To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org [image: Facebook] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73B8&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> [image: Twitter] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73B9&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> [image: Instagram] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BA&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> [image: Website] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BB&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> Special invitation to Wikipedia Beta Translation Hackathon - Translate-a-thon, from Professor Ximena Guallardo, Wikimedia NYC Hello everyone-- Boldly assuming you are fluent in at least one other language besides English, I would like to extend a personal invitation to you all to attend our *"beta" Wikipedia translatathon on* *Wednesday, October 11, starting at 2PM and going on until 4PM in E-106 at CUNY LaGuardia CC, 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City,* As you may know, there are 299 language editions of Wikipedia, but the number of articles for each varies enormously, from more than 5 million in English to just 6 in Choctaw ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_Wikipedias) <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BC&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…>. Each time we translate one article from one language encyclopedia to another, we help readers retrieve information about other cultures and peoples; we also help them gain information that, for whatever reason, was not readily available in their own language(s). In this particular event,professors will translate articles from one Wikipedia language site to another with the help of Wikipedia's very own translating programs. You will work on articles of your choosing, but we will be translating and learning the process together. You don’t need to have any experience with Wikipedia to participate – we will provide a training at the beginning of the event with everything you need to get started. I hope you can find some time to join us. Best, Ximena Gallardo C. Professor of English CUNY-LaGuardia CC _____________________________ Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. --Octavia Butler. _____________________________ I'm interested! Sign me up. <xgallardo(a)lagcc.cuny.edu> *The <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BD&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…>** Wikimedia New York City <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BD&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…>* Chapter board of directors and guests recently met to strategize a year of exciting Wikipedia related opportunities. AfroCROWD is part of the Wikimedia New York City Chapter, where AfroCROWD's founder, Alice Backer, serves as a vice president. The chapter is a large group of dedicated individuals who are working hard to provide great Wikipedia community related programs throughout the New York City area and beyond. Recently the chapter's board and guests met to strategize and plan about the coming year of events and we are excited about the results. Expect a great year ahead. *Thank you for your support!* Join the Global Wikipedia Community today with AfroCROWD! Click here to get a Wikipedia Account! <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BE&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> *For more up to the minute info on AfroCROWD and other Wiki events, click here to follow us on Twitter <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73BF&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> @AfroCROWDit <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C0&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> and on Facebook <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C1&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> and Instagram <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C2&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> @AfroCROWD <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C1&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> and click below to share!* [image: Twitter] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C3&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> Share <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C3&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> [image: Facebook] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C4&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> Share <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=74E73C4&e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6…> *If you have editing ideas, or are looking to partner with AfroCROWD for a coming event, please contact us today:* Founder, Executive Director - Alice Backer- *Alice(a)AfroCROWD.org* <Alice.Backer(a)gmail.com> Program Manager, Public Outreach - Sherry Antoine, MPA: * Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com>* *Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD)* is an initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descents who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly multilingual edit-a-thons in partnership with renowned cultural institutions, museums, galleries, educators, libraries, and archives in the New York Metro area and beyond. AfroCROWD has also trained future trainers in the target community. View this email in your browser <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/v?e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6D&email=ub…> You are receiving this email because of your relationship with Afrocrowd. Please reconfirm <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/opt?e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6D&email=…> your interest in receiving emails from us. If you do not wish to receive any more emails, you can unsubscribe here <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/u?e=BDA60E&c=77108&t=0&l=10F43E6D&email=ub…>. This message was sent to african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org by Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org 195 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn, NY, 11205 [image: Unsubscribe from all mailings] <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/su?e=BDA60E&c=77108&l=10F43E6D&email=ubHfV…> Unsubscribe <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/su?e=BDA60E&c=77108&l=10F43E6D&email=ubHfV…> | Manage Subscription <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/s?e=BDA60E&c=77108&l=10F43E6D&email=ubHfVc…> | Forward Email <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/f?e=BDA60E&c=77108&l=10F43E6D&email=ubHfVc…> | Report Abuse <http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/Abuse?e=BDA60E&c=77108&l=10F43E6D&email=ubHf…> <http://www.benchmarkemail.com?p=500289> _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians -- *Sami Mlouhi* *Member of Wikimedia TN User Group.*

1 0

Reporting an issue from [Carthagina]
by Emna Mizouni 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Dear co-founders of the group, Dear Wikimedia TN User Group members, I trust my email finds you all in good shape. I'm writing to you on my capacity as Carthagina current President. I’m addressing this email to the co-founders of the group as the legitimate co-chairs and to the community as well because we are partners in several successful projects (MedinaPedia, GLAM) and contests (WLM, WLA,...). We strongly value this partnership and we would like to maintain it for more joint work (the ongoing GLAM project in the Diocesan Library, the upcoming photo contests, the next MedinaPedia Dougga and Sfax,...). I would like to report an issue between a member of this community and some members of my team - Carthagina that has gone bigger than expected. In Carthagina, we value people and we value our team's work and of course our partners. Partner for once, partner forever. We, as well, prioritise the diversity and homogeneity of the team. Jamel Ben Saidane (a wikimedian and Human Resources Officer - Carthagina) and I received a complaint from Afek Ben Chahed and Zeineb Takouti, two members of Carthagina and active Wikimedians. They reported several times the misbehaviour of the Wikimedian Mounir Touzri. The situation kept escalating to the point of insulting Zeineb and devaluing her work. Harassing Afek and trying to influence her to split Carthagina and Wikimedia TN UG members. Afek reported as well that Mounir has stolen one of her ideas of Wiki University Clubs. Side conversations took place containing gossiping, shouting on the phone and depreciation toward these members. It became an unhealthy environment to volunteer. It suddenly became a very contagious atmosphere where my teammates felt frustrated and affected in a way to have incidents within the core staff of Carthagina (when Mounir started reaching out to Issam Barhoumi and Samy Mlouhi). *I would like to thank Habib and Yamen who called the members to motivate them in several occasions showing a good model of leadership.* But this is not all. The complaint that I would like to hand to you as a Wikimedian, contains influencing voting. Several members confirmed that Mounir contacted them privately to ask them to vote for a specific person. The way that he acts as the owner of the every new members faith; X person can go to attend Y conference while Z person is not welcome to attend ... May I remind you that this kind of behaviour made us lose one of the active and enthusiastic wikipedian few year ago (I’m talking here about Wael Ghabara). I would like to also highlight that myself as well as other wikimedians, have concerns about the grants that Mounir is receiving without letting us know. I recall our Wikimedia TN meeting organised by Mounir himself in Sousse early March, when we all agreed that all grant requests should be known by the community and go through our unique fiscal sponsor CLibre. >From our side in Carthagina, for the first time in our history we activated our policy and decided unanimously to ban definitely Mounir Touzri from all our activities, projects and venue. We declare him as a "Persona non grata". This decision was taken based on our code of conduct and all our members, observer-members and board of trustees voted for it. This is the hardest decision, we took in Carthagina, especially that Mounir was considered part of our community and that he helped us in the WM-Carthagina events. But unfortunately, we cannot allow/accept this kind of behaviour from someone who's supposed to know our policy as well as the Wikimedia friendly space policy. The Carthagina meeting minutes would be shared with Yamen and Habib and if you would like to hear more concerns from our team about the Wikimedia related issues, my team and I are happy to collaborate. It saddens me to write this email but the situation needed an action to stop the abuse from growing bigger than it is. Sadly Emna -- Digital Manager - British Council Tunisia Affiliations Committee Member - Wikimedia Foundation Founder & President of Carthagina [image: --] Emna Mizouni [image: http://]about.me/emna.mizouni <http://about.me/emna.mizouni> *Mobile:* *+21623550150 * <mehdi.dahmen(a)hotmail.fr>

15 27

Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Ombuds Commission now accepting nominations
by Sami Mlouhi 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Brown <kbrown(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 2017-10-02 18:49 GMT+01:00 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ombuds Commission now accepting nominations To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello all, Please accept my apologies if you are receiving this a number of times today. We have sent it out to multiple mailing lists in order to reach as many community members as possible. It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Ombudsman commission (OC). This commission works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of CheckUser tools, and to mediate between the complaining party and the individual whose work is being investigated. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Executive Director or the Board of Trustees in investigations of these issues. For more on their duties and roles, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for appointment to this commission. Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser tool OR who have the technical ability to understand the CheckUser tool and the willingness to learn it. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners are required to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the access to non-public data policy[1] and the privacy policy[2]). This is a position that requires a high degree of discretion and trust. If you are interested in serving on this commission, please write me an email off-list to detail your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the commission and what you hope to bring to the role. The commission consists of nine members; all applications are appreciated and will be carefully considered. The deadline for applications is end of day on 18 December 2017. Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you! -Karen Brown On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Support & Safety team 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy 2. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy -- Karen Brown Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation kbrown(a)wikimedia.org -- Karen Brown Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation kbrown(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Sami Mlouhi* *Member of Wikimedia TN User Group.*

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Wikimedia-tn October 2017