Wiki Protocol
Welcome to the Typewriter Wiki!
We're glad to have you onboard. If you're reading this, it likely means you've wanted to take up editing. We'd love your contributions and look forward to working with you!
This is an orphaned page. That means the only way to get to it is to search for it. Wiki editors should read it and try to make things on it work for them.
Contents
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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Protocol
Text Protocol
This is the format we want you to use:
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 photos that aren't yours unless given explicit permission, 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. Linking to Polt's page for manuals whenever possible -- https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html -- is useful as well.
When writing, it is a best practice to keep track of sources. Unfortunately, many of us do keep info in our heads and we will have to go back and re-cite things. When creating a new article it is easier to cite while going along.
This wiki uses the Cite extension. Citations
