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Last edited: 15 February 2016      

Below are conventions and instructions for the various text and features on this wiki.

Units

Metric, then Imperial

When including units of measurement, express the measurement in metric units first, then include Imperial units in parenthesis. For example: "This oven heats up to about 437 °C (225 °F) in an hour."

Abbreviations

When using abbreviations for units of measurement (such as "mm" or "in"), insert a space between the number and unit. For example: "33 in" or "35 cm". Do not add a period after the abbreviation unless it is the last word in a sentence. Please do not use apostrophes or quotes to indicate units like feet, minutes, seconds, etc.: use the unit abbreviation (or spell out the unit of measurement, such as "3 cups").

Expression of Degrees

Degrees can be used to express:

Temperature

Celsius first with Fahrenheit in parentheses. For example: 100 °C (212 °F). Use Template:Degree to do this automatically like this: {{Degree|100}}. For degree ranges, use {{DegreeRange|100|200}}.

Latitude and/or Longitude

When referencing detailed Latitude and Longitude (such as specific geographic locations), use abbreviations for degrees, minutes, and seconds. Such as "Located at 34 deg, 32 min, 5 sec North".

Angles

Use the ° symbol when expressing angles. Use no space between the number and the ° symbol when writing out degrees of Latitude/Longitude, such as: "when using this oven with a sun angle of 60° or higher, configure the oven in the high-altitude setting".

Expressing Time

Use "a.m." or "p.m." when referencing specific times of the day. Alternately, you can use "AM" or "PM" if you do not want to use periods. Ensure there is a space between the numerals of the hour and "a.m." or "p.m.", such as "...by 10:30 a.m., the oven had reached an internal temperature of 204 °C (399 °F)."

Text

Capitalization

Only capitalize the first word of any phrase or heading unless it is a proper name (name of a cooker etc.)

Images

Copyright

Main article: Image copyright tags

Source Articles & Online Tools

Sources used for this article include:

Tools: The tool most frequently used by the author for conversions is Google; simply type "convert x [current units] to [new units]" and Google will provide you with a handy widget that not only gives you the conversion, but also allows you to type in new numbers or to convert in the opposite direction.

Templates

See Templates used on the Wiki.

News items

  • Whenever a news item is added to an the page of an NGO, individual, or manufacturer, copy the news item also into the News section of the corresponding country page(s) and to the Admin:News log.
  • When adding a images to go along with a news item on the Main page, be sure to protect the image to avoid vandalism.

Geographic locations

Be sure to include state and country, e.g., Sacramento, California, USA

Category order

Add the closest location first: Home state * Home country [* Project state * Project country...]

Contact info

The goal is to have each set of contact information on only one page of the site to avoid having to update change in multiple places. In general, put the contact info on the NGO and/or Manufacturer page and use {{See|Whereever}} to point to the page that contains the contact info.

Redirect pages

When creating a page for an NGOs acronym that redirects to the page with the full name of the NGO, add the "NGOs" category to the redirect page, but no other categories. This will cause the NGO to show up on a list of all NGOs, but will prevent it from showing up twice on the corresponding country page(s).

Deceased promoters

Remove all categories except the categories for the country/ies where the person has lived and/or worked. Add the "Deceased solar cooking promoters" category. Also add to the article the "ArchivedPage" category (not the "ArchivedPage" template). This will cause the person's name to appear in the "Archived articles" subsection of the "History" section of the corresponding country page(s) but remove it from all other automatic lists.

Archiving pages

Whenever it is no longer possible to contact an NGO, Individual, or Manufacturer, then the article can be deleted. However, if the page contains good practical or historical information, add the {{ArchivedPage}} template just under the {{GoogleTranslateLinks}} template at the top of the page. Then delete all categories except those dealing with its geographic location (country, state, etc.). This will cause the entity to no longer appear under contacts on the corresponding country page(s). However, a link to the archived article will show up in the History section of the corresponding country/state page(s).

Marking items as "NEW"

When adding a new item to a page add the template corresponding to the month you are adding it, e.g., {{NewApr15}}. This will cause the word "NEW" to appear next to the item until the template is question has its contents removed after one month (in this case on June 1, 2015). At the end of each month, clear all the content from the "New" template from two months before.

Automatic translation

Entire page

All pages written in English should have {{GoogleTranslateLinks}} at the top of the page followed by two blank lines. If this template tag is followed by a {{Updated}} tag, then these blank lines can be omitted.

If the page is in any other language, then add {{GoogleTranslateLinksAuto}} template tag. This relies on Google Translates ability to automatically detect the language the page is written in. After you have done this, always test the translation by clicking on "English" and verify that the translation works correctly. Sometimes Google Translate is fooled by the English text surrounding the article text and incorrectly indicates that the page is already in English. If this is the case, then use one of the other translate templates that specify language, e.g. {{GoogleTranslateLinksFromSpanish}}, {{GoogleTranslateLinksFromFrench}}, {{GoogleTranslateLinksFromGerman}}, etc.

Links to individual external pages

When linking to individual url in another language, use the {{GoogleLink}} template: {{GoogleLink|http://www.promosol.letchad.org}}. If it is necessary to add text for the link, then use {{GoogleLinkAuto}}, e.g. {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.trinysol.com|Trinysol}}. URLs that have a "?" in them (thus a query string) can cause problems. Is this case add "1=", "2=", etc. to remedy this: {{GoogleLinkAuto|1=http://www.trinysol.com|2=Trinysol}}

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