Wiki Protocol
This is an orphaned page.
Wiki editors should read it and try to make things on it work for them.
Templates
Leaf has created several templates for use on this wiki. A brief description of a few important ones are below: Infobox:
infobox|Company Name|Inventor|FileName|Caption|Location|Types of Machine|Founding Year|Fate w/Year|Common Rebrands|Affiliated companies|
Placing a set of 2 curly brackets {{ }} around the above, and replacing the information, will generate a nice right-aligned infobox like the one here:
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Image Protocol
When uploading images, please name your files! Naming files after the typewriter in question is preferred. This can be done in the Upload File tool provided by Mediawiki: using the Destination Filename box, your file can upload to MediaWiki under a different name.
Naming protocol for images on this wiki is the typewriter's common name. Common abbreviations may be used (e.g.:Blick in place of Blickensderfer, UW in place of Underwood). Manufacturer and model should both be in file name whenever possible, with manufacturer first. Mediawiki files are not case sensitive.
TypewriterCommonName.png. PNG files are preferred, but JPG files are used as well.
e.g.
Blick6.png
SmithCoronaFlattop.png
Underwood5.jpg
Copyright
-Don't upload copyrighted photos or manuals that are not your own scans. Many common manuals and some service manuals are available publicly on Richard Polt's Classic Typewriter Page. Link to Polt's page for manuals whenever possible -- https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html.
We're working on a citation module for the wiki, but apparently despite it coming bundled with MediaWiki 1.21 and later -- we're on 1.34 or something -- it's not working. I'll update this page when I figure that out.
