NARWHAL/August 2026

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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for August 24, 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.

Agenda

1. Introductions & updates
2. Events
   1. WikiConference North America (WCNA) 2026 news (Chelsea & others)
   2. Other? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
      1. Wiknic 2026 Season, starting with SF in June
      2. Queering Wiki 2026, 23-25 October, Montreal
      3. WMF is running a WikiLearn course called the Enabling Diverse Future Voices: Patrolling from August 20 - September 20, 2026. Enrolment is required via this form (Google Form)
         1. https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_COMMDEV26+MOOC2026/about
   3. Conference submissions/bids
      1. Submissions open
      2. Submissions closed
3. Hub news
   1. Introductions from staff
   2. Opportunity to provide feedback to the Wikimedia Foundation's changes to Recognition and Funding for Movement Organizations and Future Affiliate Landscape
   3. proposed hub requirements for consideration
      1. Have endorsement from 70% of affiliates, groups, organizers, and project communities in that audience.
      2. Establish a multi-year strategy.
4. Affiliate news
5. On-wiki ideas:

Background

• North American Wikimedians/Wikifests
• Previous meeting pages: NARWHAL/Meetups
• These links below go to etherpads. Some may have been wiped in the summer of 2026 as part of a cleanup, although it looks like these were saved as part of Wikimedia work. Chelsea Chiovelli and econterms moved the contents of the ones since Sept 2025 to the Talk pages of the meetup pages here on Meta.

RSVP

• Myotus (talk) 22:42, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
• econterms (talk) 23:28, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
• Alan Colin Arce (WMCA) (talk) 17:09, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
• Bluerasberry (talk) 16:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
• Peaceray (talk) 23:36, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 02:41, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
• brooke (talk) 20:52, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
• ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 00:31, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• Aude (talk) 00:47, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• Reify-tech (talk) 00:58, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• Emufarmers (talk) 00:59, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• Amyc29 (talk) 01:07, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• ★NealMcB★ (talk) 01:24, 25 August 2026 (UTC)