Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
|---|---|---|
| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedia Tunisia User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Tunisia | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Mourad Ben Abdallah | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Youssef Ben Haj Yahia | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | The elected board continued working as of 1 January 2024. The main goals of Tunisia User Group are:
Elections for 2025-2026 are planned to take place in March 2025. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | ||
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The Wikimedia Ghana User Group Board helps in the day-to-day administration of the user group. The Board, in collaboration with the community, contractors and volunteers, ensure that the user group goes by its annual planned activities. It acts as an advisor and sometimes supervises the implementation of our programs. The board currently constituted is made of all 3 first subscriber members (two voting and one non-voting member). The user group is electing a community board seat, a voting seat. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | ||
| Affiliate health and resilience | ||
| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | The board has three voting members. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Currently we have around 50 active members working with Wikimedia projects in Tunisia. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique 2023/2024 ; Wikimedia Research in Tunisia ; as well as WLM, WLE, and many local workshops and edithons. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
| Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership | ||
| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Teaching skills to new comers ; Capacity building ; Project management; Partnerships, etc. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | ||
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | ||
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | ||
| Diversity balance (especially gender) | ||
| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | We have around 35 % of women is actively contributing to our UG. We are looking to improve this furthermore. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | We encourage content creation about women, and we always make sure that our environment is safe to everyone. | |
| Universal Code of Conduct compliance | ||
| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | TBC; no mention of UCoC in the group website yet | |
| Engagement and Collaboration | ||
| Please share the publicly available records of regular meetings, activities, events, or conference in the past year where the affiliate has participated. | [[1]] | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Around 30 people. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Between 10 to 20. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Around 15 people. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Over 100, and we had 8 people who attended Wikimedia conferences in 2024. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Telegram group discussions ; Board monthly meeting ; Wikimania COT ; Wikimania attendance ; Wiki Convention COT ; Wiki Convention attendance ; Wiki Indaba COT ; WikiIndaba attendance ; Wiki Arabia COT ; Wiki Arabia attendance ; Local Projects, Workshop and Edithons ; WLM ; WLE. | |
| What would affiliate leadership list as the top 3 (three) capacities of the affiliate? (e.g. evaluation, community governance, programs and events, organizational governance and resource policies, conflict management, partnerships, fundraising, communication and media relations, contributor development, on-wiki technical skills, policy advocacy, etc) | Organizational governance and resource policies | |
| Programs and events | ||
| Contributor development | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Increasing Participation | |
| Communication and media relations | ||
| Policy and Advocacy | ||
| What are the organizations, community projects, or groups that the affiliate had been working or seeking to work with to develop and support the 3 capacities? | Sfax ya Mezyena (Sfax) ; ASM (Tunis) ; Djerba Coworking space (Djerba) ; JCI (Tunisia), etc. | |