Wikipedia:WikiProject Eswatini
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Welcome to the WikiProject Eswatini! This group was formed to better organize articles on Eswatini, previously Swaziland, in a spirit of cooperation.
Scope[edit]
This group includes within its scope all articles related to Swaziland, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Eswatini in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Eswatini or one of its subcategories.
Participants[edit]
Active members[edit]
To join WikiProject Eswatini, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- John Carter 20:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Chris Lowe
- venzen (talk) 12:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
- User:Derek Andrews
- Oakley77
- Ludvonga
- Bobbyshabangu talk 00:54, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
- Lefcentreright[[User talk:Lefcentreright|<span
- Zpro1408 (talk · contribs) 00:31:26, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:03, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Former members[edit]
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Member identification[edit]
Members of WikiProject Eswatini should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Eswatini participants.
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{{Template:User WP Eswatini}}
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{{Template:User WP Eswatini
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For other Eswatini user templates, see Category:Eswatini user templates.
Recognized content[edit]
| Eswatini articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 GA
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1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |||
| B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| C | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 35 | |
| Start | 20 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 73 | 167 | |
| Stub | 14 | 11 | 10 | 88 | 267 | 390 | |
| List | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 49 | |
| Category | 935 | 935 | |||||
| File | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Project | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 1 | 25 | 27 | |||
| Template | 57 | 57 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 41 | 37 | 43 | 147 | 1,030 | 387 | 1,685 |
| Unassessed | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 41 | 37 | 43 | 147 | 1,030 | 392 | 1,690 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,345 | Ω = 5.54 | |||||
 | This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Eswatini articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured pictures[edit]
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Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini of Eswatini
B-Class articles[edit]
Good articles[edit]
Former good articles[edit]
Did you know? articles[edit]
In the News articles[edit]
Did You Know (DYK)s[edit]
The following Swaziland articles have appeared on Wikipedia's front page in the Did You Know? section:
| Date appeared | Article | Hook line. Did you know... |
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| 23 August 2005 | Umchwasho | ...that umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women? |
| 5 August 2008 | Gabriel Mkhumane | ... that Swazi police told Gabriel Mkhumane's mother that he would come home "wrapped in a black bag" hours before his death was reported? |
| 16 October 2008 | Zola Maseko | ... that for his 2004 film Drum, director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs (US$20,000)? |
| 11 August 2009 | Russia–Swaziland relations | ... that although the Soviet Union recognised Swaziland in 1968, it wasn't until 1999 that Swazi relations with Russia were officially established? |
| 3 May 2011 | Tourism in Swaziland | ... that apartheid in South Africa and the Mozambican Civil War caused an increase in the number of tourists visiting Swaziland? |
Requested articles[edit]
Biographies[edit]
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Other[edit]
- Requests listed in this section may belong somewhere else. Please help by moving them to a suitable location.
- Evelyn Baring High School (from Mario Masuku)
- Great Council of State (the Liqoqo)
- Land reform in Eswatini
- List of national parks of Swaziland
- Makeyana - (from Ethnic Swazi music))
- Makhosini (from Mario Masuku)
- Malkerns - 4th largest population? [1] Seems doubtful looking at the satellite image.
- Matsapha maximum security prison (from Mario Masuku)
- Mbabane Airport - (from List of airports in Swaziland)) hold on! see Talk:List of airports in Swaziland
- Mdimba Mountains - from Mbabane
- Media in Eswatini
- Queen of Swaziland (the office of the king's wife, or a list of queens)
- Swazi Bank (from List of banks in Swaziland)
- Swazi Observer Newspaper Group (from Tibiyo Taka Ngwane) - see Eswatini Observer
- Swaziland Building Society (from List of banks in Swaziland)
- Swaziland ISP Association ("SISPA") (from .sz, but page name needs to conform to wp rules)
See also Index of Swaziland-related articles and Outline of Swaziland which have a number of suggested red links. Also List of kings of Swaziland.
Resources[edit]
Images[edit]
- Wikimedia Common – Category Eswatini
- Swaziland Digital Archives photos and historical information
News[edit]
- The Eswatini Observer - the search engine doesn't seem to work so try a Google search with site:http://new.observer.org.sz.
- Times of Swaziland
Maps and geography[edit]
- [2] [3] Useful small scale maps
- U.S. Army Map Service 1:250,000 Compiled 1955, but maybe useful for finding place names of small settlements.
- Mbabane (western area) 4.8MB
- SW corner 4.7MB
- SE corner 4.5MB
- [4] a 1993 report by the surveyor general outlining the state of mapping a naming in Swaziland.
Statistics[edit]
- Census taking in Swaziland
- Common Country Assessment - Swaziland, 1997
- Districts of Swaziland
- 2007 Swaziland Population and Housing Census
Politics[edit]
- EISA Swaziland: Election archive (Electoral Institute of Southern Africa)
- Institute for Security Studies - basic info about the country
- 2008 Human Rights Report: Swaziland by US Dept of State
- UNHCR Refworld Country Information Collection
Environment[edit]
Templates[edit]
Add
{{WikiProject Africa
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to the Talk page of all relevant articles. See Template:WikiProject Africa.
- importance= (High, Mid, Low, NA)
- class= (FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, List, Cat, or Template)
This adds articles to Category:WikiProject Eswatini articles
Add
{{Eswatini topics|state=uncollapsed}}
to all articles solely about Eswatini. See Template:Eswatini topics.
{{Swazi elections}} adds a topic box listing National Elections. See Template:Swazi elections.
{{Politics of Eswatini}} adds an info box. See Template:Politics of Eswatini.
Article alerts[edit]
Categories for discussion
- 26 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Eswatini (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
Related projects[edit]
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