NARWHAL/November 2025

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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for November 10, 2025 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.
• See the Talk page for notes from this meeting, which were originally taken on an etherpad

Agenda

1. Review notes from last time NARWHAL/September 2025
2. WCNA 2025 news (Pharos and others), Fri Nov 21 Virtual Day
3. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
4. Conference submissions
   1. Submissions open
   2. Submissions closed
      1. Wikimedia Futures Lab/Participation / Frankfurt / 30 Jan - 1 Feb
5. Other Hub developments
   1. Affiliations Committee pause on new usergroups until April 2026, what we can do in the meantime
   2. Revised Round 2 submission to Grants:Programs/Hub Fund/CANCUS (Canada, Caribbean, US) Hub Proposal
   3. Wikipedia Day / 25th anniversary planning
   4. WikiConference North America locations in 2026 and beyond
   5. We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
   6. 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.
   7. Do we have a way to share useful scripts? User:Gaurav has created a script to check lists of editors for last edit date so inactive editors can be contacted less frequently.
   8. The NAhub Indigenous North American issues team has a collaboration/conversation hour on some Fridays at 15:00 eastern time. The next one is Nov 7th.
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 (Chelsea - see meeting notes)
   1. Location is officially Edmonton, Alberta
   2. Wikimedia Community Fund grant application was submitted in August
9. Committee appointments open Oct 30 - Dec 11

Background

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

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• econterms (talk) 16:45, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 19:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
• Emufarmers (talk) 02:09, 11 November 2025 (UTC)