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NARWHAL/November 2024

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A NARWHAL meeting is planned for Monday, November 18, 2024 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.
NARWHAL across Wiki North America!

Agenda

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  1. Recent and upcoming events:
    1. WikiConference North America in Indianapolis — 3-6 October 2024
    2. WikiConvention francophone in Quebec City, Oct 31-Nov 3, organized by WM Canada
    3. Grant application for WCNA 2025 in NYC has already been filed! -- Pharos or Pacita?
    4. Wikipedia Day (see sidebar)
    5. WMCA virtual 1Lib1Ref event in French & English on Nov 19 (tomorrow!)
    6. We're trying to track events in a virtual newsletter; see
    7. Other events? SWAN meetings? Wiknics? Editathons? Parties? Meetups? Salons? Please add here to announce or describe them.
  2. Committee appointments for Affiliations Committee (closing 18 November 2024); Ombuds commission, Case Review Committee (closing 2 December 2024) -- Xeno (moved up because it's time-sensitive)
  3. Prospective North-American-scale teams or task forces discussed at WCNA. Do we have volunteers to start these now? -- econterms
    1. Task force or team to support Native American languages and wiki activities - one controversy came up at the conference
    2. Team to support smart planning and handling of visas for Wikimedians to get to conferences in the US and Canada
    3. Team to support translation and internationalization of the new Wiki Workbook for Cultural Institutions to French and Spanish
    4. Bonus: Teams for planning these monthly calls and coordinating CentralNotice campaigns
  4. Other Hub developments
    1. We have an Monthly online newsletter as other Wiki groups have; and sources to draw from for list of events
    2. North American hub proposal -- support and suggestions invited on talk page there -- econterms
    3.  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.

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