NARWHAL/March 2026

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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for March 16, 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, later mostly copied to the Talk page here as we prepare for Wikimedia's etherpads to be wiped clean for maintenance.

Agenda

1. Review notes from last time NARWHAL/February 2026
2. WCNA 2026 news (Chelsea & others)
3. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
4. Texas and North Carolina edit-a-thons, Women's History Month events
5. Conference submissions
   1. Submissions open
      1. MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) - registration open
   2. Submissions closed
      1. Wikimania call for session proposals - closed on March 1, 2026
      2. Language Diversity Conference scholarship call - closes on March 13, 2026
6. Other Hub developments
   1. tangential - we use etherpad to take meeting notes. WMF plans to delete all etherpads April 2026 - preview / draft of news
      1. Do we want to continue taking meeting notes? If yes, what should we use instead of etherpads?
   2. Affiliations Committee pause on new usergroups until April 2026, what we can do in the meantime
   3. Revised Round 2 submission to Grants:Programs/Hub Fund/CANCUS (Canada, Caribbean, US) Hub Proposal
   4. We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
   5. This 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. The NAhub Indigenous North American issues team has a collaboration/conversation hour on some Fridays at 15:00 eastern time. The next one will be on Feb 27
7. On-wiki ideas:
   1. Guide for new organizers

Background

• North American Wikimedians/Wikifests
• Previous meeting pages: NARWHAL/Meetups

RSVP

• User:e_mln_e
• Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 19:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
• Peaceray (talk) 03:07, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• econterms (talk) 01:04, 17 March 2026 (UTC)