Dear Friends,

I do not think that this decision is excellent now because we are preparing for WikiIndaba 2018 and because such decisions can cause some problems in the organization of the conference. In fact, Mounir had made the grant application to organize WikiIndaba 2018 on behalf on Wikimedia TN User Group. He has even discussed with some people for Wikimedia Foundation and WikiAfrica. If we drop him from the group, we will have to repeat this discussion from its beginning. I propose instead to discuss this problem with Mounir directly or by phone and not by email messages so that we can have an arrangement to the problem for the benefit of our community.

Yours Sincerely,

Houcemeddine Turki

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De : Wikimedia-tn <wikimedia-tn-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> de la part de Wikimedia Tunisia <contact@wikimedia.tn>
Envoyé : mercredi 20 septembre 2017 21:39
À : wikimedia-tn@lists.wikimedia.org; Mounir Touzri
Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-tn] Reporting an issue from [Carthagina] - WMTNUG Decision

 

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--
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Wikimedia TN User Group
http://wikimedia.tn

Wikimédia Tunisie – Wikimedia TN User Group wikimedia.tn ويكيمانيا هو مؤتمر سنوي لمستخدمي مشاريع الويكي التي تديرها مؤسسة ويكيميديا، عقد حتى عام 2016 ...

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@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@wikimedia.tn
>     <mailto:habib.mhenni@wikimedia.tn>>
>     *Envoyé :* 7 août 2017 14:24:10 GMT+01:00
>     *À :* Emna Mizouni <emna.mizouni@gmail.com
>     <mailto:emna.mizouni@gmail.com>>, Wikimedia TN User Group Mailing
>     List <wikimedia-tn@lists.wikimedia.org
>     <mailto:wikimedia-tn@lists.wikimedia.org>>, Yamen Bousrih
>     <bousrihyamen@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@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@gmail.com <mailto:Touzrimounir@gmail.com>
> +216 29 774 346 <tel:29%20774%20346>
> Member Wikimedia TN user group
>
>
>
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