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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for Monday, March 31, 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 (Pharos and others)
  2. Hub news: We have enough affiliates (10) signing up to join the North American hub (NAHub) and are ready to declare that the hub exists
  3. Hub grant proposal (Peter or Pharos)
    1. Planning to submit for April round - due Tuesday!
    2. Microgrants for US and Canada, limited support for partnership projects beyond
    3. Admin support for Microgrants
    4. CentralNotice banner technical improvements
  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.
  6. Prospective North-American-scale teams or task forces discussed at WCNA. Do we have volunteers to start these now? (Peter)
    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. Bonus: Teams for coordinating CentralNotice campaigns
    4. Team to support Wikidata updates for changes to US federal government (agency staffing, budgets, names, reorgs, etc.)
  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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