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!
over on wikipedia we put a lot of thought into the place names (a major battle was macrons…). Why not have both in the display name? e.g. sidebar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington
Agreed. We could change the name to to
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tarainstead, which will also help identify the sub for visitors or folks who aren’t familiar with the Te Reo name.And further, identify it as specifically the Wellington in Aotearoa :)
Not the gumboot then?
I like this but suggest Wellington NZ because there’s a lot of Wellingtons out there. I agree including both names or Maori variant of regional name because students and visitors don’t necessarily know the Maori name yet.
Doesn’t the community being [email protected] indicate that it’s this Wellington not another?
Maybe? If you search engine something Will you see that?
Yes, for federated sites like Lemmy, think of it like email. The community is not “wellington” but [email protected] - the “!” helps us understand it’s not an email address.
If you are on another Lemmy instance and search for Wellington, it will show the full “[email protected]” probably along with others.
Then as you say, no need. Thanks for the info!
Yeah, I think you guys got it right. It’s known formally as Wellington.