User:A Pakeha
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Hi!
This website has bugged me all week and I cannot stay away, so I have decided to make myself known. -- A Pakeha 09:26, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
My previous contributions have been as:
- User:210.54.77.184 17 February 2004 - Contributions
- User:210.86.40.208 18 February 2004 - Contributions
- User:210.86.34.172 19 February 2004 - Contributions
I appear to be the first ordinary user on this Wikipedia for the Maori language. I think it would be cool that a Maori Wikipedia existed. However, I have on HUGE problem - I do not speak, or read, Maori. That is why this is in English instead.
Is there anyone willing to be a translator? If there is there are several article in the English Wikipedi that could be readily translated.
I recognise that I may not be able to contribute to content too much, but I may be able to help someone who is not familiar with Wikipedia and give them a boost to get things up and running. To this end, I have started a few articles with the key word and an (English) appeal for translators. These terms have also been linked from the English Wikipedia articles.
I have also edited the pages that exist in the Wikipedia: namespace - where all the help, Editing help and other policy and information pages go. I have linked these to the corresponding pages in the English Wikipedia. This includes Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:General_disclaimer, Wikipedia:User preferences help, About Wikipedia (Wikipedia:About) and the GNU Free Documentation License articles. -- 09:32, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Having thought about this for a couple of days there is a need to create a page that references the English Language Wikipedia articles that should be in the Maori Language Wikipedia. This should not be on the main page but in some sort of strategy page, thus I created Wikipedia:Wikipedia English Language articles about Maori subjects as a place for all those links to go. This would act as a resource to start articles in Maori.
There is probably also the need for a page to translate all the functions on the sidebars and other functions into Maori terms. Perhaps MediaWiki:Maori_Terminology to allow a programmer to convert all the Wiki Messages into Maori. -- 03:32, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
