Wikipedia:Pātaitai noa
Nō Wikipedia Māori
Ko ētahi o ngā pātaitai noa e pātaihia nuitia, ko ēnei:
Are there templates available to help contributors with limited language skills?
This site is for the Māori language and its speakers. It is not our policy to provide special help to speakers of other languages. In the past, such a policy was in effect, and it has been rejected because it had a bad effect on the site, which still has hundreds of one-line stubs and barren lists as a result. And many of those stubs are on topics that do not interest speakers of Māori, and thus they are not likely to be motivated to improve them.
Can I practice my Māori by adding one-line stubs?
Like other small Wikipedias, the Māori Wikipedia has a policy asking contributors NOT to create stubs. 'Better no article than a one-sentence stub'. The rationale for this is that stubs that consist only of a sentence are a nuisance rather than a real contribution. This Wikipedia has far fewer users than the English Version for example, which is why our users have a correspondingly bigger responsibility for what they are contributing. Ask yourself: if not even you are interested enough to write an at least somewhat decent article about it, why should anyone else bother to do so?
Will others will be able to correct my grammar?
As with the previous question, the answer to this involves a consideration of your responsibility to the language and the site. The Māori language is regarded as 'te reo rangatira' - a noble language that deserves to be treated with respect. Do not create articles unless your language is very very good, otherwise you are disrespecting the language. You should also realise that correcting others' mistakes is not simple task, nor is it fun. People with the language skills necessary are few and far between - and they may not be even be interested in the particular topic you wrote about. Ask yourself whether it is fair to expect them to spend their valuable time fixing your mistakes. Also, considering the still-endangered status of the language, do you think it is fair to the language to have badly-formed Māori visible all over this site? Be aware that bad grammar is one of the justifications for speedy deletion of an article.
Ōu pātai, ōu whakaaro
- Haere ki Wikipedia:Kōrero ki te tuku mai i ō pātai, ō whakaaro rānei e pā ana ki tenei paetukutuku.
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