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Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui / Wellington

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Kia ora and welcome to !wellington, a place to share and discuss anything about Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui / Wellington in general.

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Hello! I am new here, and likely so are you.

It's great to see local communities online - and a great time to shape how we'd like to go on.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on a display name change from Wellington to The Whanaganui-a-Tara.

This would not change the URL, or stop people finding us by searching Wellington.

Tell us what you think... Go!

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[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There's a similar post in the South Island community (sorry, I don't think Lemmy handles links too well if you're subscribing from another instance): https://lemmy.nz/post/25709

Is anyone opposed to having this cover the Greater Wellington region rather than Wellington City?

Do we have opinions on punctuation?

  • Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui (Wellington)
  • Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui | Wellington
  • Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui / Wellington

And if we are saying the Wellington region, do we want that specified in the title or is "Wellington" enough?

[–] Ilovethebomb 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that 95% of NZ speaks English, why not English first? Your one would cut off the actual name we're looking for in shortened links etc. It's also a bloody mouthful.

[–] batwingnz 2 points 1 year ago

Every little bit helps to shift us towards bilingualism, which I think is great as we continue the slow, long overdue embrace the idea of a country run in partnership between Tangata Whenua and the rest of us folks

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