User talk:Tohunga puoro

Hi there, I see you are a New Zealander (or at least, appear to be by your edits). There are several NZ related Wikipedia pages that you may be interested in.

Portal:New Zealand
Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand
Adding {{User New Zealand}} to your userpage will list you as a NZer.

Welcome, and enjoy. Kahuroa (talk) 20:40, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tēnā koe e te rangatira

Thanks for your email. I'm really pleased that you are working on Māori instruments. Best way to learn is to copy the way others do it, I find, just make sure you are copying experienced editors haha. Re your user pages, it's easy to delete the misspelt page: Copy this code:

edit the page you want deleted, paste the code in, and save. That places a template on the page and an admin will delete it for you, the last time I tried that the page was gone by morning. Here's a hint, if you make the page name more general you can reuse it for the next article you create. Many people call them USER NAME/Sandbox. If you run a mouse over my user page there are links to mine. Re Commons, uploading files you have created yourself is fairly straightforward. Once you have created a user at Commons with the same user name as here, here's a cheat link that you can use to Upload your own work to commons. Just fill in the missing info, ~~add a category, (using code like [[Category:XXXXX]])~~ and you are away. Generally at Commons they don't use the macrons on Māori words in categories. And yep, I will talk to Schwede about getting that Māori taskforce up and running. Kia kaha koe i ēnā mahi rangatira āu. Kahuroa (talk) 03:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kia ora - I see the upload link worked well, nice pic of the pūtōrino. I have edited the upload link so that it also adds the files you upload into the Commons category "Maori musical instruments". If you want to upload any other kind of image, ie not instuments, you can either edit the category on Commons before you save theuploaded file or let me know and I can make a different upload link for you. Kahuroa (talk) 04:30, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kia ora Kahuroa, thank you for the encouragement, very much appreciated, a little bit at a time will get me there. Do these images go live immediately? Tohunga puoro (talk) 11:02, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Yep, the images are available for use on Wikipedia page pretty much immediately. You can check on them here Commons:Category:Maori musical instruments Kahuroa (talk) 19:37, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NTS: For uploading own work to commons:

Upload your own work

For deleting wikipedia pages:

{{db-userreq}} (User pages only... when they are your user pages).

For deleting pictures from commons:

check: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests

Tohunga puoro (talk) 23:31, 6 October 2010 (UTC) Tohunga puoro (talk) 23:56, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Files on Commons

Hi again, just noticed what you've written above - if you ever want a file renamed on Commons, I can do that for you. I can't delete tho. Kahuroa (talk) 23:52, 6 October 2010 (UTC) Cheers will do that now. Do I go to your talk page? Tohunga puoro (talk) 23:56, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is fine, doesn't matter too much where Kahuroa (talk) 00:04, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I am beginning to understand that you are seeing me wherever I am, aue!!! This image title has no macrons and I have the need to be consistent. It should read as "Pūtōrino waha. The large central aperture" with the correct macrons/spelling. I've just lifted the deletion request and expanded the description more. Thanks. Tohunga puoro (talk) 00:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about Waha pūtōrino? I like my Māori around the right way lol Kahuroa (talk) 00:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ae, I think this is best. Should be consistent all round from the start. I was listing general to specific for the purposes of WP page structure and search, PLUS te reo is my self confessed stumbling block so what you suggest is definitely best. Thanks. I look forward to learning more, which is why I throw myself into these curves. Lets do that with the other images then too please. There is debate over various parts names, for instance, mangai is often used for waha and viceversa, so I'm considering swapping them, as mangai is often more about voice and sound, and waha can be seen as entrance. Please let me know what you think.Tohunga puoro (talk) 00:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image file names aren't all that nitpicked about on Commons, surprisingly enough - I guess because it's the categories that carry the sorting side of things. You can use waha on one image and māngai on another - that's fine. But in the actual article about say Pūtōrino, you as the expert would probably be consistent in the text, but you might mention that both were used. The actual names of the images don't show anyway unless you are editing or clicking into them. I'm not in on the names debate, i would guess it might be that both names were used, perhaps depending on the iwi or the mood - I wouldn't really know, but lots of things were like that. And waha still means mouth when it means entrance so not a major. Okay I will do the changes. Kahuroa (talk) 01:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, if you dont mind I will use you as a sounder for my reo issues.

Sweet as. I have made the changes - also took the full stops out of the file names. Hope they are ok. Kahuroa (talk) 01:27, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page 101

Tena koe Tohunga puoro, it's always great to see somebody new on Wikipedia who's really keen, so please be welcome. You've left a few questions on my talk page and I thought I'd give you a bit of a rundown. The first thing you should know about is your watchlist. You add a page to your watchlist by clicking on the star in the menu bar to the right of the 'View history' tab. When a page is on your watchlist, that star is blue. You are likely to make a lot of use of your watchlist, and it's the reason that Kahuroa is 'seeing you wherever you are', to paraphrase you. You would have seen me on your watchlist, as I added the Māori task force banner to your user page.

The general etiquette is to keep conversations in one place, so if you leave a message on somebody's talk page, the convention is that the user answers there. So you'd generally add that page to your watchlist, and you'll see when the person answers. You may not wish to add a particular user to your watchlist (some people's pages are rather busy and they can create a lot of activity on your watchlist), so one way to deal with it is to request a talkback tag when the user has replied. Place {{Talkback|your username}} on to somebody's page if you have replied on your talk page and you are not sure that the other person is watching your page.

You might have seen that a new talk page topic is given a level 2 heading (i.e. where the heading is enclosed in two equal signs on either side). New messages go on the bottom of a page. When you reply to somebody, you indent the message using a colon in front of every paragraph. Using two colons indents the message further, and so on. When it's indented too far, or you want to write a long message with many paragraphs, you can outdent the next reply by preceding it with {{od}}.

Finally, you sign your message with four tildes. That produces your user name plus a date. That's only used on talk pages, but not in edit summaries.

I hope that's all that there is to know about talk page conduct. If you have any queries, feel free to reply here - I've watchlisted this page! And a little anecdote that you will enjoy - one of the best concerts that I've ever been to was when Richard Nunn performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Salmonella Dub - that was awesome. Now there isn't an article on Richard Nunn on WP and before you start writing a biography of a living person, let me know and I'll give you some vital tips. Schwede 66 09:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, greatly appreciated. Things are becoming much clearer. Tohunga puoro (talk) 10:11, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Been a while

Kei whea tonu koe, e te uri o Te Aroha maunga? Roa rawa te wā Kahuroa (talk) 04:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Māori task force assessment criteria

I would value your input on a discussion on Māori task force assessment criteria and scope. cheers Stuartyeates (talk) 07:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

ESEAP Conference

Hello Tohunga puoro,

Scholarship applications for ESEAP Conference 2018 is now open!

ESEAP Conference 2018 is a regional conference for Wikimedia communities around the ESEAP regions. ESEAP stands for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific. Taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 5-6 May 2018, this is the first regional conference for the Wikimedia communities around the regions.

Full scholarships are subject to quotas, maximum two people per country and your country is eligible to apply, visit this page.

We also accept submissions of several formats, including:

Workshop & Tutorial: these are presentations with a focus on practical work directed either to acquiring a specific skill or doing a specific task. Sessions are 55 minutes led by the presenters in a classroom space suitable for laptops and work.
Posters: A2-size format to give news, share your community event/program, set out an idea, propose a concept, or explain a problem. The poster itself must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with a suitable license.
Short Presentation/Sharing talks: 10-15 minutes presentation on certain topic.

Deadline for submissions and scholarship applications is on 15 March 2018. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me or send your e-mail to eseap@wikimedia.or.id.

Best regards,

Wirjadisastra (talk) 02:47, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request for applications for position of Wikipedian-at-Large, Aotearoa New Zealand

Kia ora! The Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand User Group invites you to read about the call for applications for a Wikipedian-at-Large for Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024. Group members are happy to explain the process and discuss ideas with interested editors.

Sent by Zippybonzo on behalf of MurielMary using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 06:37, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede 66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]