NARWHAL/April 2026
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A NARWHAL meeting is planned for April 20, 2026 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific.
- Zoom link, hosted by WMNY
- 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.
- Temporary etherpad notes for this meeting, to be copied to the Talk page here as we prepare for Wikimedia's etherpads to be wiped clean for maintenance.
- Next meeting is planned for May 11
Agenda
[edit]- Introductions & updates
- WCNA 2026 news (Chelsea & others)
- The call for proposals opened 2026-04-16 until 2026-05-15.
- This years program theme is "Building the Future of the Commons".
- The Call for Proposals has five tracks: AI & Tech, GLAMU (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Universities), New users and skills development, Underrepresented communities, and Users with extended rights.
- The call for proposals opened 2026-04-16 until 2026-05-15.
- Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
- Seattle monthly meetup (in person) 2026-04-21
- Country Music Rides Again Online Editathon 2026-04-22
- May 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon 2026-05-02, in person & online
- Bay Area Hackathon May 2026 (under development) 2026-05-03
- Three WikiPortraits photographers will be at the 2026 Seattle International Film Festival (most recent category is at commons:Category:WikiPortraits at 2025 Seattle International Film Festival), 2026-05-07–2026-05-17.
- Bay Area Meetup May 2026 (in person) 2026-05-12
- WikiClub Canada (virtual) 2026-05-13
- Edmonton meetup (in-person) May 31, 2026
- Conference submissions
- Submissions open
- Queering Wiki 2026 call for scholarships is open until April 20, 2026
- Submissions closed
- Submissions open
- Other Hub developments
- Grants:Programs/Hub Fund/CANCUS (Canada, Caribbean, US) Hub Proposal approved
- A better Hub name than "CANCUS"? Nominations and process
- Hub Steering Committee process, initial community selection by June 2026
- Affiliations Committee pause on new usergroups was until April, extended until September 2026
- Notetaking! NARWHAL needs to decide a few things. Wikimedia's etherpads are going to be wiped out, possibly in May.
- Should we move most notes from past NARWHAL meetings to talk pages here? See example try for March's meeting?
- If we do that, do we want to copy people's introductions or other identifying info to this searchable platform? We could leave that section out of what we save, as in that example.
- Shall we continue to take notes for NARWHAL calls? If yes, on what platform?
- Should we move most notes from past NARWHAL meetings to talk pages here? See example try for March's meeting?
- On-wiki ideas:
Background
[edit]- North American Wikimedians/Wikifests
- Previous meeting pages: NARWHAL/Meetups
RSVP
[edit]- Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
- Pharos (talk) 02:43, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Peaceray (talk) 20:21, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- econterms (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2026 (UTC) -- Let's discuss procedures for saving our meeting etherpads, and whether we should