Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand has turned 10 years old. Happy Birthday!
If you haven’t visited Te Ara before, now would be a very good time to check it out.
When the online encyclopedia was created in 2002 it was the first of its kind in the world. No other country had an online encyclopedia that contained info that had been created from scratch.
To make it really easy to use they decided to break up all the information into groups like The Bush, Earth Sea and Sky, New Zealand People and Maori New Zealanders. They also decided to limit the number of words per screen to 500 and break up each article into a number of screens. There are also heaps of pictures and videos (1 picture/video per 100 words, actually).
The result of all these decisions and hard work is a really cool website that’s awesome for your homework or just to find out about New Zealand stuff. (You can even find out which famous New Zealander were born on the same day as you -wicked!)
