Te reo Māori and data sovereignty

Documents written in te reo Māori are taonga. Our defaults follow the principles of Māori data sovereignty (Te Mana Raraunga):

• Te reo Māori documents are not sent to third-party detection services by default.
• Organisations decide whether their indigenous-language submissions are shared with the wider repository.
• The reference corpus only includes Māori-language texts with the permission of their kaitiaki.
• AI-content detection for te reo Māori is labelled experimental because no validated detectors exist yet.

We welcome guidance from iwi, hapū, kura, wānanga and Māori language experts on how this platform can improve.