- Hawaiian Religion
Ancient Hawaiians (and native Hawaiians today) believed in a natural world where the ke ea o ka ʻāina, the life force of the land, connects humanity directly with the gods (akua) and the ancestral spirits and guardians (ʻaumakua).[1] Sources like Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel M. Kamakau and David Malo provide a wealth of information on the religious worship, ceremonies, rituals, heiau, tabus and deities of precontact Hawaiian society. Contemporary issues such as the protection of religious sites on the island of Kahoʻolawe and the desecration of Hawaiian grave sites from development connects the past with the present and raises questions about the survival of the Hawaiian culture in the 21st century.
Languishing as a small stub since 2004, Hawaiian religion was destined to suffer the same, forgotten fate of its real-life counterpart. Except for the infrequent visit from a bored vandal or a wayward interwiki bot, this neglected stub lay deeply buried beneath a rarely visited and underpopulated category. That is, until Makana Chai showed up. Like an archaeologist surveying a lost city, Chai began collecting her sources, catching the attention of intrepid explorer Jonny-mt. With Chai's copious research on hand and Jonny's endless supply of enthusiasm, the two began writing. In less than a month, an initial 921 bytes grew to 20,085 bytes, and the July improvement drive had not yet even begun.
Visit the talk page where you will find a number of open tasks needing expansion.
- Collaboration
WikiProject Religion has been invited to participate in July's improvement drive.
- Recent changes
This list is just a sample of what active members are working on at the moment. If a topic interests you, please contact your fellow member and lend a hand.
- ^ Farber, Joseph M. (1997) Ancient Hawaiian Fishponds. Neptune House. ISBN 0965978206
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- Member interview
Newsletter founder The Obento Musubi has recently announced his semi-retirement. The project wishes to thank him for the time and energy spent improving WikiProject Hawaii. This is part one of a two-part interview.
In the short time you have been a member of WP:HAWAII, you have attempted a project redesign and created a newsletter. What critical recommendations can you offer for improving the project pages and newsletter content? In other words, if you had more time to participate, what changes would you propose?
- In redesigning the front page, I tried to make it more presentable and aesthetically pleasing to visitors than what was presented before. Aesthetically speaking (get ready, page designers), I feel that our portal needs some tweaking in its designs. I personally prefer designs with padding.
- Articles needing attention
2319 articles are scheduled for a detailed cleanup and maintenance tag listing by WolterBot. Current numbers are as follows:
These numbers are artificially low because they represent a very limited run of manual flagging that categorized each article under Category:Hawaii articles needing attention. After WolterBot runs, two reports will be generated, one for the main project (view report) and one for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands task force (view report). The bot will list every maintenance tag in use by the project. When complete, an active link to both reports will be found at the bottom of the main project and task force pages. A decision will be made whether to import this list into AWB and tag the articles, placing them into the appropriate maintenance categories.
- Dispute resolution update
Following up from the June issue, a centralized discussion concerning a new proposal, Wikipedia:Usage of diacritics, has implications for the adoption of MOS:HAWAII. Please participate on the talk page.
A NPOV dispute has arisen at Hawaii Superferry. Please review the discussion and determine if the dispute is still current. A neutral party is requested to comment on the talk page and remove or leave the maintenance tag accordingly.
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