The goal of this project is to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the countries of
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. The Polynesian area can be thought of as a giant triangle, with most of the area encompassed between the three points of
New Zealand,
Hawaii, and
Easter Island, each of which has an indigenous Polynesian population.
Milestones
4000 articles: - 4 May 2015
5000 articles: - 27 February 2018
7500 articles: - 4 January 2022
Scope
The scope of this project is all articles that fall within
Category:Polynesia. We acknowledge that there may be other WikiProjects that deal directly with individual nations or areas within that. We are grateful for their efforts, and will concentrate our own on those areas that are not covered by other projects.
Participants
Active participants
To join WikiProject Polynesia, edit this section and add the
Wikitext#{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place
participant identification on their user page.
User:Leonaitasi. Aloha. I am an amateur researcher whose journey began with Polynesian genealogy. Curiously, that has led to a deepening interest in archaeology, astronomy, dead languages, comparative linguistics, and comparative mythology and theology.
User:Vaafusuaga Samalaulu Fonoti. Talofa. Researcher in Samoan culture, oral traditions and history at the National University of Samoa. Matai (chief) from Malie, Manono, Leulumoega and Lufilufi.
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).
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.reply
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...
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.comreply
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
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)reply
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))reply
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
Pakoire (
talk) 20:32, 17 January 2022 (UTC), I am based in Aotearoa and am running a Pacific Arts project to increase content on Pacific artists in all genres who are also based in Aotearoa. We are just starting - I will link to the project page on the talk page soon.reply
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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)reply
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)