Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eswatini
Wikipedia:WikiProject Eswatini
Welcome to the WikiProject Eswatini! This group was formed to better organize articles on Eswatini, previously Swaziland, in a spirit of cooperation.
 | This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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| Shortcut | WP:ESWATINI WP:SWAZILAND |
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| Category | Eswatini |
| Wikimedia Commons |  Eswatini |
| Project banner template | {{WikiProject Africa|Eswatini=yes}} |
| Userbox | {{User WikiProject Eswatini}} |
| Assessment | /Assessment |
| CSB | Relevant for countering systemic bias |
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.
Active members
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
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Member identification
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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| [[Category:WikiProject Eswatini participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{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.
| Eswatini articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 GA |
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 | 266 | 389 | |
| 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 | 386 | 1,684 |
| Unassessed | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Total | 41 | 37 | 43 | 147 | 1,030 | 392 | 1,690 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,339 | 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
- Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini of Eswatini
B-Class articles
Good articles
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
In the News articles
Did You Know (DYK)s
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? |
Biographies
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Other
- 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
- Mantenga National Park / Mantenga Nature Reserve
- Mlawula National Park (all from List_of_national_parks_of_Africa#Swaziland)
- Makeyana - (from Ethnic Swazi music))
- Makhosini (from Mario Masuku)
- Malkerns - 4th largest population? 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.
Images
- Wikimedia Common – Category Eswatini
- Swaziland Digital Archives photos and historical information
News
- 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
- 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
Statistics
Politics
- 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
Add
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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.
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