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Aloha!

I don't actually speak any Hawai'ian unfortunately and I actually live in Arizona, but I noticed your edits, and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future!

First of all, I highly encourage you to register (it's free, and you don't have to give any information about yourself at all) here so that any changes you make can be identified specifically with you.

Second of all, I see that you tried to use the "Stub" message on a page. Unfortunately this message doesn't exist yet on the Hawai'ian Wikipedia, but you can write it here and it will automagically appear on the page you tried to add the notice to before. It should read something like, "This page, {{NAMEOFARTICLE}}, is a [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]]. You can help Wikipedia by editing it." (except of course in Hawai'ian). The best translation for "stub" is probably a word that means a stump (as in a tree stump), because it indicates that it's not very long.

If you want to make a new page, you don't have to make a link to it to get there. You can type the name in the "search" box and press "Go", and it should take you to a message that says the page doesn't exist yet. You can click "edit" then and write the page.

If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask me (you can e-mail me at node.ue@gmail.com) --Node ue

Ah! I had expected the woman I e-mailed a while ago about the Hawai'ian Wikipedia (she registered here but never once edited unfortunately).

But certainly I think we should try to do a little work to expand it - perhaps it will draw more interest if it has some level of content.

I was going to add stubs on other world cities, but alas I have forgotten the conventions for "Hawai'ianizing" foreign names for the most part.

I recently did a similar thing for the Cherokee Wikipedia, except with countries, but I think here we could get something really going.

wehewehe.com suggests the word for stump is ʻŌmuku. Thus, "This article, ____, is a ʻŌmuku" - would that be "Ka (this article, _____,) he ʻōmuku."? And what about capitalisation in Hawai'ian, if a word beginning in an 'okina starts a sentence (or is a proper name), do you capitalise the next letter?

--24.251.243.233 03:30, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC) (will log in eventually.........)