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Welcome!

Hello, Nabifly, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:09, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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SchuminWeb (Talk) 10:09, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your IPA[edit]

Of course, I can't be sure how you personally pronounce it, but in general no English speakers pronounce an aspirated k (k^h) at the end of a word; stops at the end of a word are usually unreleased. For example, "cat" and "tack" are pronounced approximately [k^hæt̚] and [t^hæk̚]—that's not a dialect thing, it's more or less cross-linguistic, since aspiration is just hard to produce or perceive without a vowel after it. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. I'm fairly certain that I aspirate my 'k's at the end of sentences... but not so certain now... Anyway, I think our Prime Minister, John Key does it too [1] at ~54s for the word "polytech", but he doesn't seem to aspirate any 'k's in the middle of words, which I think I do, and I think I aspirate them at the ends of my words, certainly more than PM Key does. But, anyhow, you've got me all curious now, so I'll have to record myself and listen to it over and over again. And I hate the sound of my recorded voice!! :-S

But I am 100% certain that I say /fɘʃ/ and /tʃɘps/ instead of /fɪʃ/ and /tʃɪps/. I believe that New Zealand is the only English country that has the <ɘ> sound. Just ask any Australian (they mock us for it all the time, although to them it sounds like an <a>).

Of course, I am not a linguist, you are, and I am probably completely wrong (about my /kʰ/ at the end of "mistake" in my accent assertion). 나비Fly ^Talk/_{Contributions} 06:35, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And I have edited my page anyway, because I have written "mistake here", so there is an aspiration anyway after <k> at the start of "here". 나비Fly ^Talk/_{Contributions} 06:51, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Auckland Meetup 5 on 9 May 2010[edit]

You are invited to Auckland Meetup 5 on the afternoon of Sunday 9th May 2010 at Esquires Cafe, Ground Floor, Auckland Central City Library, Lorne St, Auckland. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 5 for details and RSVP. You can also watch Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - Linnah (talk) 14:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia[edit]

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]

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

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[edit]

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]