The Mātāpuna Dictionary Writing System is a free, easy to use, web-based, multi-user, multilingual dictionary writing system. It is currently being used to compile Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori / The Māori Language Commissions monolingual dictionary of the Māori language.

The system assists with many aspects of lexicography, including team collaboration, routine error and consistency checking, corpus searching, publishing, and progress monitoring in addition to the traditional headword and entry management.

The Mātāpuna Dictionary Writing System was developed jointly by Dave Moskovitz of Thinktank Consulting Limited and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori / The Māori Language Commission in Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand. It won the 2004 New Zealand Computerworld Excellence Award for use of IT in Government. It is a Free and Open Software System distributed under the GPL version 2 license, and registered with Sourceforge.

If you have any questions about the software that are not answered on this site, you can contact Dave for further information. If you're interested in learning more about the Monolingual Māori Dictionary, contact Waitangi Teepa.