Article templates
TekWiki offers a number of Wiki templates that generate uniform information boxes, headlines, categories and the like.
Please see the individual templates for instructions on their use:
Page skeletons
- Template:Company for key data on a company
- Components:
- Template:CRT for cathode-ray tubes
- Template:Discrete component for other discrete components
- Template:Vacuum Tube for other vacuum tubes (valves)
- Template:Hybrid IC for hybrid integrated circuits
- Template:Monolithic IC for monolithic integrated circuits
- Template:Instrument Sidebar for generic instruments including spectrum analyzers, generators, ...
- Template:Oscilloscope Sidebar specifically for oscilloscopes
- Template:Probe Sidebar specifically for probes
- Template:Plugin Sidebar for plug-in modules that go into other equipment
- Template:TM500 specifically for TM500 series plugins
- Template:TM5000 specifically for TM5000 series plugins
- Template:Patent for patents related to Tek or Tek equipment
- Template:Person for lists of key biographical data on a person
Queries
- Template:Designer lists components and products designed by a specified person
- Template:Components made by lists components made by a specified manufacturer
- Template:Parts lists generic parts such as vacuum tubes used in the referenced instrument
- Template:CRTs lists only CRTs used in the referenced instrument
- Template:Custom ICs lists only Custom ICs used in the referenced instrument
- Template:Part usage lists instruments where a specific part is used
- Template:Patents lists patents by a specified inventor
- Template:People lists people affiliated with a specified company
- Template:Plugins lists plugins compatible with the referenced instrument
- Template:Products lists products by a specified company
Missing Data
- Template:MissingSpecs creates a Specifications headline and "Please add" paragraph, and categorises the page as
[[Category:Specifications needed]]
. - Template:MissingPics creates a Pictures headline and "Please add" paragraph, and categorises the page as
[[Category:Image needed]]
. - Template:BetterPics creates a notice that better pictures are needed, and categorises the page as
[[Category:Better image needed]]
. - Template:MissingBio creates "Please add" paragraph, and categorises the page as
[[Category:Biography needed]]
.
Specifications
- Template:Spec (together with Template:BeginSpecs, Template:SpecGroup, Template:EndSpecs) for key specifications on instrument pages