Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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Audience: Te Ara’s history page says many users were New Zealand school students, with visitors from almost every country on Earth.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Headquarters: Wellington, New ZealandRead 28 Sep 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Founded: 2001Read 28 Sep 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Biographies: The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography is part of Te Ara and includes online biographies and te reo Māori versions of biographies about Māori subjects.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Commercial reuse: Commercial reuse of material licensed under the non-commercial licence may require specific permission from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Contact support: Te Ara welcomes feedback by email and lists a Wellington postal address, telephone number and Video Relay Service option for contact.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Content currency: Te Ara says it is not currently commissioning new stories, though existing stories may be updated or revised.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Coverage: Te Ara is a comprehensive guide to New Zealand’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Feedback: Te Ara welcomes feedback by email and asks people reporting a page issue to provide its URL or title.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Historic encyclopedia: Te Ara includes the full text of the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, which the site says has not been updated or corrected.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Historical reference: The 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand is available online as part of Te Ara.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Image reuse: Te Ara and the Ministry do not hold copyright for all images and other non-text items, so users should check the item-specific reuse information.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Māori content: The Māori perspective appears throughout the sections, and stories with substantial Māori content are available in te reo Māori.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Media rights: Te Ara does not hold copyright to all images and other non-text materials, so reuse permissions depend on the item’s rights information.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Operator: Te Ara is managed and updated by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in Wellington, New Zealand.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Publisher: Te Ara is managed and updated by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
RSS: RSS feeds may be reused without further permission if reproduced accurately, attributed to TeAra.govt.nz and not used misleadingly.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Search: The site provides search for stories, images and other resources.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Search limit: The search engine does not search the Further Sources pages.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Social media: Te Ara’s history page says the site used Flickr, Twitter and Facebook to interact with users.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Stories and resources: The site has almost 1,000 stories and around 25,000 images and other resources.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Text licence: Unless otherwise stated, text is licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0 New Zealand for non-commercial reuse with attribution.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Text reuse: Unless otherwise stated, text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand; commercial use may be requested.Read 4 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz
Use case: Te Ara describes its entries as accessible overviews for a general audience, supported by research and links to more in-depth sources.Read 5 Oct 2026 · teara.govt.nz