User:Robin Patterson

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Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Ko Ruapehu taku maunga.

Ko Whanganui taku awa.

Ko Kotimana me Ingarihi aku tūpuna.

Ki Waitahuna (Otakou), ki Kaikorai (Otepoti), me ki Orawia (ki te hauauru o te Murihiku) aku kura tuatahi.

Ko Otago Boys' High School taku kura tuarua (1954-1958).

Ko Porirua taku tāone nui inaianei.

Ki Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara taku mahi.

I'm currently one of a handful of people most likely to be available as this site's ambassador (māngai) in the kāinga o te māngai (embassy). (The registered user claiming the highest proficiency in the language was, for several months, User:Node ue, who is well known in other Wikipedias, so I don't mind if people try to talk to him here, preferably in Maori. He has good ideas about linking wikis and his claimed language learning has made great strides since he said in May 2004 "I am not a Maori speaker".)

Proficiency in specified languages

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

fr-2

Cette personne peut contribuer avec un niveau moyen en français.

la-2

Hic usuarius media latinitate contribuere potis est.

de-1

Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

mi-1

Kua taea e tēnei tangata te taumata waiwai mō te reo Māori.

Ngata Dictionary (new URL 2005; it now has macrons; however, it has been - at least until October 2006 - unable to recognise them in a Maori-English search)
ngā aho whakamāori-ā-tuhi (English and Maori Word Translator) formerly from the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo, now based in Tāmaki Makaurau
Tai Tokerau dictionary, using umlauts but with many examples translated (and therefore an improvement on Williams)
He Kupu Rorohiko - Computer-related terms, by Te Taka Keegan - over 350 Maori-English words and phrases, followed by English-Maori
Rārangi
Wikipedia:Wikipedia English Language articles about Maori subjects

*Nearly 1,000 "wanted" articles

(Te reo Ingarihi:

I'm user number 11! Another place to find me is my English page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robin_Patterson

I am a sysop and bureaucrat for this Wikipedia, which means I can edit sidebar link names and can get rid of vandalism faster than the average user can.

As I indicated on a kōrero page recently, my knowledge of "te reo" is a bit less than skeletal. So my contributions here are likely to be mostly just structural or text I can copy. I see that a couple of others are already doing some of that rather well.

(Fifteen months later - that was an underestimate; I'm still waiting for some real speakers of the language to take over.) - 7 Hūrae 2005.

Maybe today it looks likely - 29 Noema 2005.

Email is welcome - sent to robin.patterson"at"thomson.com it will get read quite soon on most weekdays; note that New Zealand Standard Time is 12 or 13hrs ahead of Greenwich.)

Kia ora koutou

Robin Patterson 22:39, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)