NARWHAL/May 2025
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A NARWHAL meeting is planned for Monday, May 26, 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.
- Zoom link, hosted by WMNY
- Etherpad notes for this meeeting
Agenda
[edit]- WCNA 2025 news (Pharos and others)
- Update on closing out WCNA 2024 accounting and reports (econterms)
- Hub news: We have enough affiliates () signing up to join the North American hub (NAHub) and are ready to declare that the hub exists
- Hub grant proposal updates (Peter or Pharos)
- Proposal was submitted on April 1, 2025
- Final deadline for revisions to the proposal is May 27, 2025
- Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
- Cascadia Wikimedians
- The 2025 Seattle International Film Festival just finished its in-person screenings yesterday. Three WikiPortraits photographers participated. Uploads are progressing at Seattle International Film Festival 2025 Commons category. Further categorizations & integrations with Wikidata & Wikipedia(s) are in progress.
- The annual Cascadia Wikimedians general membership meeting will occur Sunday, June 15, 2025, 1‐2:45pm PDT.
- The Seattle Wiknic will be on Saturday, August 9, 2025, 12pm to 3pm (PDT).
- Cascadia Wikimedians
- Prospective North-American-scale teams or task forces
- Task force or team to support wiki work on Indigenous North American languages, topics, and wiki activities (need to change name for multi-country applicability; perhaps to "Indigenous"?)
- Several have volunteered to be on it, and we were strongly encouraged to partner with experts from universities and cultural institutions, members from Indigenous communities
- Team to support smart planning and handling of visas for Wikimedians to get to conferences in the US and Canada
- Bonus: Teams for coordinating CentralNotice campaigns
- Team to support Wikidata updates for changes to US federal government (agency staffing, budgets, names, reorgs, etc.)
- Task force or team to support wiki work on Indigenous North American languages, topics, and wiki activities (need to change name for multi-country applicability; perhaps to "Indigenous"?)
- Other Hub developments
- We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
- North American hub proposal -- support and suggestions invited on talk page there -- econterms
- Please consider adding {{User NAH}} to your meta user pages to get the userbox at right.
This user supports the creation of a
North American Hub
Background
[edit]- Previous meetings: NARWHAL/Meetups
- Notes from previous meetings:
- North American Wikimedians/Wikifests
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