Robin Patterson

Rāpare

21

Noema

21:55 UTC

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.

Pleased at no longer having any chance of being needed as an ambassador.

Statistics show a couple of new active contributors i Nov 2006.

(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

He tapepa rawa te reo Māori o tēnei tangata.

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

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; note that New Zealand Standard Time is 12 or 13hrs ahead of UTC/Greenwich.)

Kia ora koutou

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

Titiro hoki (see also)

Hoto ki waho (external links)

http://www.maori.org.nz/papa_panui/History.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators
http://mi.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Hau_K%C3%A4inga&action=history
Maori Language Commission (Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, which sets definitive standards)
Link Exchange directory "An easy and fast link exchange with a Friendly Search Engines directory, using static pages." It lists us, but not much else at Robin's last visit.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Maori_index
"project to develop a web-based sentence translation system for Mäori and English" - Te Kaitito
Cultureflow - teaching Te Reo in various ways, such as the free "kupu of the day" email (not 100% reliable, eg inconsistent macron use and errors such as "The word of the day is kina. It means "see eggs".")

Blood relatives of my nieces and great-nieces plus a few others - all enjoying the wonderful display facilities of Rootsweb, the BIG free whakapapa site
Genealogy at http://wikia.com
Lord of the Rings