Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eswatini

Category:Swaziland has been nominated for discussion
Category:Swaziland, which is within the scope of this wikiproject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Eswatini. The nomination includes proposals to similarly rename 434 sub-categories of Category:Swaziland. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 14:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Note I have just done a bout of tagging Swaziland categories with WikiProject banners. As far as I can see, all the subcats of Category:Swaziland are now tagged with   ... apart from a few Boer War categories which don't involve Eswatini.
 * This should ensure that any CFD nominations for these categories show up in WikiProject Swaziland/Article alerts. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 15:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

More categories to move?
The discussion has concluded, and many categories have been renamed, but it appears (unless I'm missing it) that the subcategories of Category:WikiProject Eswatini articles were missed. They probably need to have corresponding Eswatini categories created, or whatever the correct process is. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Bot request changes suggestion
A bot request should probably be made to go over cities and towns (such as Mbabane) and change a few things:
 * 1) If the article has an Infobox settlement, then change
 * 2) pushpin_map value to "Eswatini" (I've asked for the module that handles the map to be fixed and it is already fixed).
 * 3) map_caption change the caption from "in Swaziland" to "in Eswatini".

This not only corrects the name on the infobox and map, but also fixes the short description.

Another thing which should be requested (if possible) is to change the lead sentence on those article places from " is a town in Swaziland." to " is a town in Eswatini." (such as an Matata, Swaziland), but since the text various, this might be more difficult (or just search and replace for the country in the lead, which is possible). --Gonnym (talk) 20:09, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Help identify a princess
Can any one identify the second princess in the photograph at discussion at Featured picture candidates/Sikhanyiso Dlamini? --- Coffee  and crumbs  14:24, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

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User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Adding Prince Alexander Dlamini
There’s a draft for Alexander Maier-Dlamini, who had that controversy in the Independent. He’s married to a cousin of Mswati III and great-grandson of Sobhuza II Sungani Dlamini. It’s surprising to me that this hasn’t come sooner.

Within the “Personal Life” section there is a lot of information about how eSwatini works based on western analysis. I thought of removing it, but according to Wiki guidelines it has relevance to personal life choices, I suppose. Nyhn2023 (talk) 00:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Eswatini:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 13:00, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Feedback needed at Mfecane page
Hello everyone! I've been preparing for a re-write of the Mfecane article and would really appreciate some feedback at the talk page. Thanks in advance! Pliny the Elderberry (talk) 18:52, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest
Starting this July, we will see a new contest on the scene - the Developing Countries WikiContest (WP:DCWC)! Think of it as a WikiCup but only for articles and media on developing countries.

Competitors may submit GAs, GTs, FAs, FTs, FLs, FPs, and DYK and ITN entries from/on developing countries to gain points and proceed to further rounds. Points are also awarded to those who review GAs, FAs and FLs.

Eswatini is listed as a developing country for the purposes of this contest, so articles related to it are eligible to be submitted for points. I encourage everyone here to sign up and compete with editors from around the world to create high-quality content!

Append your name to the DCWC signup page today!

Best wishes, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI ( talk to me!/my edits ) 11:10, 19 May 2024 (UTC)