 | This isWikiProject New Zealand, a group of Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of New Zealand. New participants are welcome; feel free totalk to us! |
WikiProject New ZealandSomeWikipedians have formed aWikiProject to better organise information in articles related toNew Zealand. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please enquire on thetalk page.
| New Zealand articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA | 2 | 13 | 16 | 31 | 62 | ||
| FL | 1 | 1 | 24 | 26 | |||
| FM | 31 | 31 | |||||
 A | 1 | 11 | 23 | 35 | |||
 GA | 7 | 19 | 68 | 263 | 357 | ||
| B | 60 | 151 | 346 | 1,074 | 1,631 | ||
| C | 99 | 364 | 1,339 | 5,427 | 7,229 | ||
| Start | 1 | 284 | 2,281 | 19,604 | 22,170 | ||
| Stub | 619 | 25,201 | 25,820 | ||||
| List | 3 | 44 | 335 | 2,041 | 2,423 | ||
| Category | 14,513 | 14,513 | |||||
| Disambig | 202 | 202 | |||||
| File | 372 | 372 | |||||
| Portal | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Project | 82 | 82 | |||||
| Redirect | 1,999 | 3,170 | 5,169 | ||||
| Template | 1,897 | 1,897 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Draft | 9 | 117 | 126 | ||||
| Assessed | 172 | 877 | 5,016 | 55,696 | 20,393 | 82,154 | |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 172 | 877 | 5,016 | 55,696 | 20,393 | 1 | 82,155 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =300,021 | Ω = 5.24 | |||||
The currenttime in New Zealand is 11:19, 27 November 2025NZDT[refresh]
ThisWikiProject covers all subjects closely related toNew Zealand, including itshistory, geography, people, biodiversity, and many other topics.
As of26 November 2025, there are59,801 articles within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, of which96 arefeatured and361 aregood articles. This makes up 0.84% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.83% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.84% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are164,502 pages in the project.
Closely related projects and sub-projects include:
Projects with some geographical overlap include:
Add your name to the list atWikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Members
Members of WikiProject New Zealand should place one of the following lines ofWikitext on theiruser page to add it toCategory:WikiProject New Zealand participants.
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For welcoming users who have contributed to New Zealand articles, add {{subst:welcome-nz}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.
For other New Zealand user templates seeCategory:New Zealand user templates.
Note that you canwatchlist these alerts:Today's featured articles
Did you know
Articles for deletion
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Categories for discussion
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Good article nominees
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Peer reviews
Requested moves
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Articles for creation
If you create an article and it meets the criteria, please consider nominating it atDid you know.
Requests for New Zealand related articles can be found atWikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles. Please add any articles you would like created, or believe are missing to the list there.
Many New Zealand biographies are yet to be written, including for many peoplewho have an entry in theDictionary of New Zealand Biography. TheWomen in Red project which supports the creation of biographies about women, has developed aWikidata list of red linked women from New Zealand based on articles in other language versions of Wikipedia. Please note the guideline fornotability of New Zealand people.
If an article needs an image add{{Image requested|in=New Zealand}} to the articles'talk page.
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand lists all pages for which an image has been requested. Suitable historic photos may be found on the website of theNational Library; please followthese instructions.
Stub categories
more items may be found in:
and its subtypes
(Note that stub templates and categories are organised byWikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting – new stub types should not be created without first being proposed and debated atWP:WSS/P). A list of existing New Zealand stubs can be found atWikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/New Zealand.)
{{MMP election box}}; seeHamilton East (New Zealand electorate) for an example.The article (seeCategory:Years in New Zealand) have quite a few updates needed. Please add suggestions below and mark which years complete or cross them off when done.
The categories for each year need to be populated with things other than election results and cricket.
Big items.
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New section. Determine what stats to incorporate.
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See alsothe tool's wiki page andthe index of WikiProjects.
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Place{{WPNZ|class=|importance=}} onto any new New Zealand article'stalk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from theclass andimportance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:
{{WPNZ|class=Start|importance=Mid}}and the banner looks like this:
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For more information visit the assessment page:Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment
To invite a user to the WikiProject, place{{subst:WikiProject New Zealand invitation}} ~~~~ on their user talk page.
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Usage
To use this, simply add {{subst:The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit|message}} to thetalk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.
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