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NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

A NARWHAL meeting is planned for September 22, 2025 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific.

  • 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/August 2025
  2. WCNA 2025 news (Pharos and others)
  3. GovDirectory Wikidata project editing about governments U.S. focus week September 22-28
    1. Special U.S. Focus GovDirectory Office Hour Thursday, September 25 3PM Eastern, noon Pacific
    2. During the focus week we're working on Wikidata items for federal museums to potentially publish in time for WCNA.
    3. Also looking to activate more state-level projects.
  4. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
    1. WikiClub Toronto meetup - September 21
    2. Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday - 29 October
    3. North Carolina October Wiki Loves Monuments Hybrid Event Series focused on Dix Park
      1. Seeking Speaker for Online Event October 5, 3-4:30. Can you join us to give a brief presentation on Wikpedia Content Assessment?
    4. Submissions closed
      1. WikiConference North America / New York City / 16-19 October
      2. WikidataCon 2025 / online / 31 Oct - 2 November
      3. Wikimedia Futures Lab/Participation / Frankfurt / 30 Jan - 1 Feb
    5. Submissions open
      1. Wikipedia 25/Grants (submit till 1 November)
  1. Other Hub developments
    1. Grants:Wikimedia Hub Fund applications due 1 Nov
    2. Affiliations Committee pause on new usergroups until April 2026, what we can do in the meantime
    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. 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.
    7. Do we have a way to share useful scripts? User:Gaurav has created a [[ https://github.com/gaurav/wikipedia-global-message-cleanup |script]] to check lists of editors for last edit date so inactive editors can be contacted less frequently.
  2. North American Wikimedians#Events
    1. There is now a collapsed dynamic link on the page for Events from the Collaboration list.
    2. Wikimedia DC just hosted a GLAM camp, a training workshop, at the National Gallery of Art.
    3. Please update your current years/dates!
  3. 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)
  4. WCNA 2026
    1. Wikimedia Community Fund grant application was submitted in August

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