Hello! I am new here, and likely so are you.
It’s great to see local communities online - and a great time to shape how we’d like to go on.
I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on a display name change from Wellington to The Whanaganui-a-Tara.
This would not change the URL, or stop people finding us by searching Wellington.
Tell us what you think… Go!
There’s a similar post in the South Island community (sorry, I don’t think Lemmy handles links too well if you’re subscribing from another instance): https://lemmy.nz/post/25709
Is anyone opposed to having this cover the Greater Wellington region rather than Wellington City?
Do we have opinions on punctuation?
And if we are saying the Wellington region, do we want that specified in the title or is “Wellington” enough?
Given that 95% of NZ speaks English, why not English first? Your one would cut off the actual name we’re looking for in shortened links etc. It’s also a bloody mouthful.
Every little bit helps to shift us towards bilingualism, which I think is great as we continue the slow, long overdue embrace the idea of a country run in partnership between Tangata Whenua and the rest of us folks
As @batwingnz@lemmy.nz mentioned, it’s about putting the names in front of us. Putting them second would contradict that purpose.
The community is !wellington@lemmy.nz. The displayed name is longer when you visit the community, but if you’re searching for or linking to it, !wellington@lemmy.nz is fine and is what will be prefilled by Lemmy (on the website, and maybe the app).
I like this one. ^
I don’t think it needs further clarification. Wellington/Greater Wellington/Wellington Region are used interchangeably.
Agree with this one, region is clear in the Maori and Wellington is interchangeable in the English
Same
I do think it’s worth specifying Wellington region myself.