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Welcome to the Māori task force of New Zealand. This project's aim is to better organise information in articles related to the Māori and Moriori of New Zealand. It is a sub-project of WikiProject New Zealand.

This task force covers all subjects closely related to the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand, including their language, culture, history, politics, relationship with the land, and many other topics. It includes Moriori, but does not cover Cook Islands Māori.

This user is a participant in WikiProject NZ Māori task force.

To join the New Zealand Māori task force, place the following on your user page:

{{User WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force}}

To invite somebody else, place the following template and instructions on their talk page:

{{User WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force|<Your user name> wants you to join '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force|WikiProject NZ Māori task force]]'''.}}

To join the New Zealand Māori task force, please place the following on your user page:<br/><nowiki>{{User WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force}}</nowiki>. ~~~~

Category:WikiProject New Zealand Māori task force participants shows the membership.

Note that you can watchlist these alerts: Articles for deletion

• 13 Jan 2025 – Kerrin Leoni (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by TheLoyalOrder (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)

Good article nominees

• 24 Dec 2024 – Kaiapoi Pā (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Cloventt (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 06 Jan 2025 – Tāmaki Makaurau (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Tāmaki Makaurau (New Zealand electorate) by Mir Novov (t · c); see discussion

Assessment results in articles being included in the table above. Article class and Māori importance are the aspects to be assessed:

• Add {{WPNZ}} to the talk pages of articles that come under WikiProject New Zealand's scope.
• Articles that come under this Māori task force's scope should have |maori=yes included in the WPNZ template. Importance to this task force can be defined by including and filling in the maori-importance= parameter.
• For example, for a start class article of low importance for WPNZ, but mid importance for the Māori project, the full template entry would look like this: {{WPNZ|class=start|importance=low|maori=yes|maori-importance=mid}}. See WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for more information.
• All existing articles should have had the |maori=yes added to them; we will achieve this through a bot run in December 2010.
• New articles created since need to have the parameters added manually.
• If you find a category where the articles fall within the scope of this project, but the Māori parameters are missing, please leave a note on the project talk page.

The above table updates itself about daily. It's done by a bot. So if you have just assessed an article, the table will not change immediately. As a rule of thumb, we should end up with the following classification:

• Top: 2–5%
• High: 5–10%
• Mid: 25–30%
• Low: 60%

The following category stub can be added to stub articles:

• Category:Māori stubs {{Māori-stub}}

Other stub types are also available.

There is a complete list of past and present Māori MPs. Each article should have a parlbox, a succession box, and eventually an infobox. This should usefully be added by electorate. If anybody is keen but needs a hand to get started, drop a note on the politics talk page. Have a look at the Western Maori pages for an example of succession boxes. Samples (from Mete Paetahi) are also shown here.

Hon Mete Paetahi
Formal seated portrait photograph of Mete Paetahi, one of the first four Māori MPs, wearing a uniform and holding a patu.
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Western Maori
In office 1868–1870
Personal details
Born	ca. 1813  New Zealand
Died	22 September 1883 Putiki, Wanganui  New Zealand
Profession	Māori chief, politician

Here's a list of what needs doing:

electorate	from	to	MPs	succession box	parlbox	infobox
Eastern Maori	1868	1996	10	Y	Y	Y
Northern Maori	1868	1996	14	Y	Y
Southern Maori	1868	1996	11	Y	Y	Y
Western Maori	1868	1996	14	Y	Y
Te Puku O Te Whenua	1996	1999	1	Y	Y	Y
Te Tai Rawhiti	1996	1999	1	Y	Y	Y
Tāmaki Makaurau	1996	present	2	Y	Y	Y
Te Tai Tokerau	1996	present	3	Y	Y	Y
Te Tai Tonga	1996	present	4	Y	Y	Y
Te Tai Hauāuru	1996	present	3	Y	Y	Y
Waiariki (New Zealand electorate)	1999	present	2	Y	Y	Y
Tainui (New Zealand electorate)	2002	2008	1	Y	Y	Y
Hauraki-Waikato	2008	present	1	Y	Y	Y