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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for Monday, February 24, 2025 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific. If you have a preference about the date, please say so on the discussion page.

  • NARWHAL = North American Regional Wiki Hub and Lab - It's an informal coalition of North America Wikimedians, mostly organizers, including Mexico, Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. It's analogous to WALRUS for the U.S.

Agenda

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  1. WCNA 2025 news: Locations and dates are set: Oct 16-19 including Culture Crawl, at NYC's Civic Hall (Pharos and others)
  2. WikiCredCon at Internet Archive a week ago (Peter and other attendees)
  3. Hub update: We have clear enough definition of members at Talk:North American Wikimedians/Hub founding to work out final phrasings to agree and launch it. Members will be chapters WM Canada, WMDC, WMNY, and user groups in Colorado, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Chicago at least, and presumably also Caribbean and Cascadia; Bay Area and Philadelphia too, if they are recognized affiliates now, and if not we'll find a form of membership for them soon. Others may join one the final definition is clear.
  4. We're trying to track events in a virtual "monthly" newsletter; see North American Wikimedians/News/2025-01 for example
  5. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
    1. Francophone Contribution Month - Chelsea (see the etherpad notes!)
  6. New tools for event organizers: The Campaign Events extension is now available on English Wikipedia (according to Phabricator ticket T386290), following a Village Pump proposal - Chelsea (see Etherpad notes)
  1. Prospective North-American-scale teams or task forces discussed at WCNA. Do we have volunteers to start these now? -- econterms
    1. Task force or team to support Native American languages and wiki activities
      1. Several have volunteered to be on it, and we were strongly encouraged to partner with experts from universities and cultural institutions
    2. Team to support smart planning and handling of visas for Wikimedians to get to conferences in the US and Canada
    3. Team to support translation and internationalization of the new Wiki Workbook for Cultural Institutions to French and Spanish
    4. Bonus: Teams for planning these monthly calls and coordinating CentralNotice campaigns
  1. Other Hub developments
    1. We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
    2. North American hub proposal -- support and suggestions invited on talk page there -- econterms
    3. North AmericaThis user supports the creation of a
      North American Hub
      Please consider adding {{User NAH}} to your meta user pages to get the userbox at right.

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