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{{Short description|Welsh language website}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Maes-e
| favicon = 
| logo = Maese.jpg
| logo_size = 200px
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| url = {{url|http://maes-e.com/}}
| commercial = Ad supported
| type = [[Internet forum]]
| registration = Required
| owner = Private owner <br>(Administrator: Hedd Gwynfor)
| language = [[Welsh language|Welsh]]
| author = Nic Dafis
| launch_date = August 2002
| current_status = Active
| revenue = 
}}
'''Maes-e''' is a [[Welsh-language]] [[internet forum]] created on 18 August 2002 by Nic Dafis.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/adloniant/llyfrau/adolygiadau/jobbins.shtml Interview with Nic Dafis on ''BBC Cymru'r Byd''] (Welsh language subsite on [[bbc.co.uk]])</ref> At its height the site has over 3,000 registered members and was considered an important contribution to the development of the online Welsh-speaking community and the use of the language in [[cyberspace]].<ref>[http://www.aber.ac.uk/mercator/images/MonograffCymraeg100107footnotes.pdf Mercator Media Monographs 1: The Welsh Language in the Media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611234727/http://www.aber.ac.uk/mercator/images/MonograffCymraeg100107footnotes.pdf |date=11 June 2011 }}</ref>

The [[website]] allows members to discuss all manner of subjects, and contains subforums on a variety of topics, such as [[music]], [[computers]], [[Film|cinema]], the Welsh language, [[politics]] and so on. It has also become a place for the Welsh-language music scene's artists to release information concerning concert dates and new material, but perhaps more importantly in terms of internet use it has proven to be an important place for those wishing to develop Welsh language [[software]] and language packs (such as those for [[Firefox]] and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]) to exchange ideas, advice and technical information.

Nic Dafis retired as administrator of the website on 31 December 2007, handing over control to Hedd Gwynfor, a grandchild of [[Gwynfor Evans]].

The site is named after a track of the same name from an album called ''Libertino'' by [[Datblygu]].

Although still online as of 2024, the site has seen little use in the last decade, with online forums generally having declined in favour of [[social media]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.maes-e.com maes-e]

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