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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for August 25, 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. Review notes from last time NARWHAL/July 2025
  2. WCNA 2025 news (Pharos and others)
  3. Great North American Wiknic - summer picnic/centralnotice season
  4. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
    1. Submissions closed
      1. WikiCite 2025 / Switzerland, online / 29-31 August
      2. WikiConference North America / New York City / 16-19 October
    2. Submissions open
      1. WikidataCon 2025 / online / 31 Oct - 2 November - submit till 1 September
      2. Wikimedia Futures Lab/Participation / Frankfurt / 30 Jan - 1 Feb - seeking applicants with ideas till 4 September
  5. Other Hub developments
    1. Affiliations Committee pause on new usergroups until April 2026, what we can do in the meantime
    2. Wikipedia Day / 25th anniversary planning
      1. Wikipedia 25/Grants (submit till 1 November)
    3. WikiConference North America locations in 2026 and beyond
    4. We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
    5. 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.
  6. North American Wikimedians#Events
    1. There is now a collapsed dynamic link on the page for Events from the Collaboration list.
    2. Please update your current years/dates!
  7. On-wiki ideas
    1. Recent Changes patrolling
    2. Requests for comment/Sister Projects next steps + Parallel: The History and Archives of Artist-Run Centres in Canada (Q135767262)
  8. WCNA 2026
    1. Wikimedia Community Fund grant application was submitted today

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