Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia

WikiProject Polynesia

Carved Māori tāhūhū (ridgepole of a house)
Shortcut	WP:POLYNESIA
Categories	Polynesia, WikiProject Polynesia
Portal	Oceania
Wikimedia Commons	Polynesia
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Polynesia}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Polynesia}}
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia/Assessment

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the countries of Polynesia with a spirit of cooperation.

Polynesia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			5	6			11
FL			1	2			3
FM					9		9
A				2			2
GA	1	5	12	54			72
B	11	27	25	80			143
C	23	75	114	463		2	677
Start	8	56	311	2,411		18	2,804
Stub		1	80	4,652		36	4,769
List	3	7	24	331			365
Category					5,308		5,308
Disambig					14		14
File					49		49
Portal					2		2
Project					40		40
Redirect					351		351
Template					375		375
NA					841		841
Draft					6		6
Assessed	46	171	572	8,001	6,995	56	15,841
Unassessed						3	3
Total	46	171	572	8,001	6,995	59	15,844
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 45,938			Ω = 5.42

Goals

The goals of this project are to:

• create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the countries of the Polynesia and the surrounding area, their history, people, geography, and culture. Included are the independent nations of Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu, and the territories of American Samoa, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, and Wallis and Futuna. Culturally, the area can be thought of as a giant triangle, with most of the area encompassed between the three points, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island, each of which has an indigenous Polynesian population.

Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the Category:Polynesia. We acknowledge up front that there may be other WikiProjects, both now and in the future, which deal directly with individual nations or areas within the above. We are grateful for their efforts, and will concentrate our own on those areas which are not covered by a currently existing project.

Participants

• User:Thdegy
• User:KHarber
• User:Badbilltucker
• User:Zora. Did graduate research in Tonga and Hawaiian archives. Speak Tongan and some Hawaiian. Unfortunately, I'm grotesquely over-committed to several other projects (Indian cinema, Islam, clothing).
• Chris 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• Avenue 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC). Not sure how much I can help, as I have little expertise or (currently) spare time, but I am interested.
• John Carter 14:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC) - trying to continue the work of the project's proposer.
• Mattbray - glad to help..... i understand a fair bit about music and dance
• User:Danbrown99 - i'm happy to help with the expansion of articles on Easter Island, and help with the upkeep on other articles.
• Targeman: I have a particular interest in Palau, I've just asked a local radio station for permission to use their pictures (sorely lacking on Commons). Waiting for their answer. Besides that, I'll add IPA tags where necessary, and translate, at least as stubs, English articles into other languages. I'll also try to create a stub for every populated island in Oceania. This'll take some time...
• Oisin Allen (talk · contribs)
• Shudde ^talk 00:21, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Sahmeditor 18:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
• Dysmorodrepanis - Polynesian languages and avian biogeography of the Pacific region, namely Hawaiʻi. Mainly lurking and giving the ʻOkina honor where honor is due. If anyone wants to discuss the extinct giant parrot of Easter Island though...
• Jonathan Cardy Mainly interested in Rapa Nui September 2007
• Maikeli - Mainly focused on Wiki project Fiji but am interested in Melanesia & Polynesia as I am part of it and would like to help where I can.
• Fishal: interested in Easter Island and Rapa Nui
• PJ Noxon interested in promoting Polynesian's involvement in US NFL as a point of pride among students in Tonga in particular, my site has photos free for use with link and attribution --Jnoxon (talk) 03:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC) teachtonga.comhttp://www.teachtonga.com
• Jason Rees Interested in Tropical cyclones within this region.
• Teinesavaii interested arts, culture, science, politics, history, focusing on Polynesia, Samoa, Savi'i island and village in particular - fluent Samoan, conversational NZ Maori et un peu de francais. September 2009
• GDuwen
• Ano-User
• Puakatau Interested in Tonga-Fiji History and Samoa to a lesser extend.
• Kahuroa Interested in Māori and East Polynesia in particular, languages and culture. One of my first major projects involved untangling the categorisation of Polynesian articles, which used to be a mess back in the day Kahuroa (talk) 07:05, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
• User:David A. Victor Interested in Oceanic nations foreign relations
• HURI TRANSLATIONS Translation, Design & Branding company based in Mo'orea, French Polynesia.
• JJManioke A current Peace Corps Volunteer on an outer island in Tonga doing what he can to improve Tonga history and geography pages without primary sources and limited secondary sources
• MozzazzoM My great-grandmother was from Niutao, Tuvalu - I am interested in improving the Tuvalu pages.(MozzazzoM (talk) 04:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC))
• JohnR. Author of a non-commercial website guide to all of the Cook Islands [1] www.Cook Islands.org.uk and have a lot of unpublished research about the Islands and its people. Happy to help
• SioneF (talk) 03:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
• Arsenalfan24 Arsenalfan24 (talk) 23:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
• Orthogonal1 (talk) 06:27, 6 October 2014 (UTC) I am, at the moment, mostly working on Tokelau-related articles.
• Gap9551 (talk) 20:47, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
• Arthurteb303 (talk) 23:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC) I am interested mainly in Tuvalu and Tokelau.

Departments

• List of all subpages of this page

Assessment

• Assessment Department

Peer review

• Rennell Island
• Parliament of the Cook Islands

Requested articles

Tuvalu

• Girl Guides Association of Tuvalu

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Australia
• WikiProject New Zealand

Child WikiProjects

• WikiProject Cook Islands
• WikiProject Niue
• WikiProject Samoa
• WikiProject Tonga
• WikiProject Tuvalu

Work groups

• American Samoa work group
• French Polynesia work group
• Pitcairn Islands work group
• Tokelau work group
• Wallis and Futuna work group

Showcase

The following items have received recognition from the Wikipedia community:

Featured Articles

• Rongorongo

In The News

• Kapiliele Faupala is crowned the new King of Wallis (Uvea), succeeding the late Tomasi Kulimoetoke II in Wallis and Futuna.
• King George Tupou V of Tonga relinquishes many of his powers, ending centuries of absolute monarchy.

Good Articles

• Cyclone Nancy
• Cyclone Percy
• Dwayne Johnson

Did you know... (DYK)

The following items all appeared on the Main Page Did You Know section:

• ... that Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form within the South Pacific Ocean in June?

• ... that the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?

• ... that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother?

• ... that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?

• ... that there are fourteen subspecies of the Pacific Robin (pictured) scattered from Samoa to Norfolk Island? - October 25, 2008

• ... that Adolphe Colrat, the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion? - 5 February 2009

• ... that former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea piloted PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II? - 19 June 2009

• ... that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France? - 1 August 2009

Templates

Project banner

• {{WikiProject Polynesia}} - the project banner to be added to the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.

Navboxes

• {{Polynesia}} - for the bottom of geography articles

Stubs

See also: Category:Oceania stubs

Userbox

• {{User WikiProject Polynesia}} - userbox which all members can add to their talk pages

This user participates in
WikiProject Polynesia.

Resources

Periodicals

The following periodicals are indexed on subscription databanks and regularly contain material relevant to this subject for the time periods indicated. The specific articles may be available in audio, video, citation, abstract, or full text format. To obtain information, please send me an e-mail with your e-mail address and the specific subject of interest, and I will forward to you what I can obtain from the databanks. John Carter (talk) 18:15, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

• Arrows for Change (2001-on)
• Asia Pacific Business (1988)
• Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (1997-on)
• Asia-Pacific Law Review (1992-on)
• Asia Pacific Rail (2000-2002)
• Asia Pacific Telecom (2000-on)
• Asia Pacific TV (2001-2006)
• Asia Pacific Wireless Analyst (2004)
• Asia Pacific Chemicals (2003)
• Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and the Law (2002-on)
• Asia Pacific Mobile Communications Report (2000-2003)
• Asiacom (2002-2004)
• Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (1996-on)

Tools

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Polynesia