User:Robin Patterson/WP Maori English-language welcome
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Haere mai, welcome to what might be called the English-language "Community Portal" of Wikipedia mi:Māori! This is intended to be an encyclopaedia (mi:mātāpunenga) in which practically every article is written entirely in the Māori language (mi:te reo Māori) - except to such extent as other languages have been used for borrowings in the good old English tradition.
The wikipedia may contain articles on just about every conceivable subject; for example, it already has articles for Gibraltar and cities in Poland, Finland, and Spain as well as the Ten Commandments, a minor English poet, some native tribes of Taiwan, and Group 11 of the table of elements (the "noble metals"). However, a good proportion of articles will be of interest primarily to mi:New Zealanders, current and former residents of mi:Aotearoa.
We hope you can enjoy learning something from these pages and helping to improve them.
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