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["Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm assuming that you're already aware of:

A Dictionary of Māori Computer Related Terms: English - Māori
 By Karaitiana N Taiuru

http://books.google.com/books?id=m-HKJhn7YZ4C

cheers
stuart

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM, John Barstow <jbowtie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Next week is Maori Language Week in New Zealand - I thought it might
> be a nice goal to get some Ubuntu translations done.
>
> There are many simple, everyday words and phrases that still need
> translating - the kind of words and phrases that will be highlighted
> during the week or could easily be found using an online dictionary:
> "left", "right", "examples", "print", "mail", "calendar", days of the
> week - that sort of thing.
>
> Ngata English-to-Maori dictionary:  http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/ngata/
> Te Aka Engilsh-to-Maori dictionary:  http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/
>
> We have plenty of small templates suitable for casual, one-time-only
> contributions: example-content, human-theme, indicator-me and
> indicator-sound are good examples of this kind of thing - these need 5
> or less translations apiece; that's just one a day for complete
> coverage!
>
> To make a bigger splash, have a look at templates like gtk, nautilus,
> or gdm - these have a lot of the common, everyday words needing
> translation in them (though you may have to either browse or use the
> search box to find the easy ones since they're often mixed in with
> hundreds of harder to translate error messages). For example, the gtk
> template contains all the stock menu and button entries ("Add",
> "Remove", "Print Preview", "OK", "Cancel", etc..) used by hundreds of
> dialogs, menus, and applications throughout Ubuntu.
>
> To contribute, just go to
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+lang/mi and start
> translating using the web interface.
>
> John C Barstow
> Ubuntu Maori Translators (Admin)
> ubuntu-l10n-mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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