Wikipedia:WikiProject Eswatini

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WikiProject Eswatini

WP:SWAZILAND
Category	Eswatini
Wikimedia Commons	Eswatini
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Africa|Eswatini=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Eswatini}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

Welcome to the WikiProject Eswatini! This group was formed to better organize articles on Eswatini, previously Swaziland, in a spirit of cooperation.

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.

1. John Carter 20:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Chris Lowe
3. venzen (talk) 12:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. User:Derek Andrews
5. Oakley77
6. Ludvonga
7. Bobbyshabangu _talk 00:54, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
8. Lefcentreright[[User talk:Lefcentreright|<span
9. Zpro1408 (talk · contribs) 00:31:26, 30 September 2022 (UTC) [reply]
10. Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:03, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 13:52:24, 22 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]

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.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Eswatini participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Eswatini}}	This user participates in WikiProject Eswatini.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Eswatini|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Eswatini.	linked pages

For other Eswatini user templates, see Category:Eswatini user templates.

Eswatini articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	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		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 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...
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

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
  • List_of_national_parks_of_Africa#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)
• 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)
• List of banks in Swaziland
  )
• Swazi Observer Newspaper Group (from Tibiyo Taka Ngwane) - see Eswatini Observer
• List of banks in Swaziland
  )
• Swaziland ISP Association ("SISPA") (from .sz, but page name needs to conform to wp rules)

See also

.

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

• [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

• Census taking in Swaziland
• Common Country Assessment - Swaziland, 1997
• Districts of Swaziland
• 2007 Swaziland Population and Housing Census

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

• [*Eswatini Environment Authority

Add
{{WikiProject Africa |importance= |class= |Eswatini=yes |Eswatini-importance= }}
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.

Categories for discussion

• 26 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Eswatini (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion