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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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 | |
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1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||
B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
C | 5 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 40 | |
Start | 20 | 12 | 24 | 39 | 76 | 171 | |
Stub | 15 | 11 | 10 | 90 | 272 | 398 | |
List | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 50 | |
Category | 940 | 940 | |||||
File | 4 | 4 | |||||
Project | 7 | 7 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 1 | 25 | 27 | |||
Template | 69 | 69 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 37 | 43 | 152 | 1,047 | 398 | 1,720 |
Unassessed | 5 | 5 | |||||
Total | 43 | 37 | 43 | 152 | 1,047 | 403 | 1,725 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,432 | Ω = 5.53 |
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Former featured articles
[edit]Featured pictures
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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
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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.
- Mantenga Nature Reserve
- 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)
- Shewula Nature Reserve
- 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]Did you know
- 12 Aug 2024 – Abortion in Eswatini (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion