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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for Monday, January 27, 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. Recent and upcoming events and activities:
    1. Wikipedia Day (see sidebar)
    2. Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 in Mexico City this month
    3. We're trying to track events in a virtual "monthly" newsletter; see North American Wikimedians/News/2025-01 for example
    4. WCNA 2025 in NYC has dates now! In October
    5. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
  2. Hub update: WM Mexico will consider it more formally ; WM Canada board probably too
  3. 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
  4. 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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