Updating and creating notes on WikEM

Getting Started

Thanks for wanting to help out on WikEM! People are the core of the wiki. Your knowledge translates into improved bedside practice for everyone.

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General Guidelines

  • Keep entries concise yet informative
    • Preference is for notes, not chapters (i.e. think Pepid, not UpToDate)
  • Remember that the most common user format is the smart phone (view it on your phone to see the final format)
  • Focus on practical knowledge. Describe pathophysiology only when necessary for bedside treatment.
  • Reference other notes whenever possible
  • Put your source(s) in a "Sources" section or use the Footnote Referencing function
  • Feel free to divide notes into several notes, or combine them if it makes them more useful

Creating a New Note

  1. YOU MUST FIRST LOGIN
    • See Create an Account
      • You must confirm your email address (check your email account) before the site will give you the ability to make changes.
  2. Search for the term in the search field in the upper right hand corner of the page
    • If you find a note with a similar theme, please edit it instead with your new content (see below) rather than making a duplicate page
    • If you don't find a note on your subject, click on the link: "Create the page on this wiki!"
      • Use the Boilerplate (Template) function for your type of note (see Templates below)
  3. Please follow formatting guidelines below
  4. Put a category at the end of the entry

Editing Notes

  1. First search (upper right hand corner; login first) for the note that you want to edit
  2. Once on the relevant page, click on the Edit button in the top right-hand corner to edit the page
    • If you do not see the edit button, you are probably not logged in! (login to see it)

General Formatting

*Please read the wikipedia tutorial:

Headings

  • ==Heading 1==
  • ===Heading 2===
  • ====Heading 3====

Bullet points (Prefered)

  • *Level 1
    • **Level 2
      • ***Level 3
        • ****Level 4

Outline numbers (Less preffered than bullet points; see above)

  1. #Level 1
    1. ##Level 2
      1. ###Level 3
        1. ####Level 4

Category

  • [[Category:NameOfCategory']]
  • See list of categories

Internal Links

  • [[NameOfLinkedToNote]]

External Links

  • Standard: http://mediawiki.org
  • External link with different label: [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]

Footnote Referencing

  • Add the tags <ref>and </ref>on either side of the journal citation
  • Place the tag <references/> at the bottom of the article in the Sources Section for auto-generated footnotes

Multiple Footnotes of Same Source

To give a footnote a unique identifier, use <ref name="name">. You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name. The text inside the second tag doesn't matter, because the text already exists in the first reference. You can either copy the whole footnote, or you can use a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this: <ref name="name" />. The quotes are not required (but still correct) if the name contains no embedded spaces. The space before the closing "/" may be omitted.

Boilerplate Templates

Images

To upload an image to WikEM

  • Log-in
  • Click on the link Special:Upload which appears under 'Toolbox' in the links on the left

To inset an image into a page

  • Within the relevant file insert the following:
    • Our standard [[File:Image-file-name.jpg|thumb|Writing that you want on the bottom of the photo]]

Other

  • To see a list of uploaded images by WikEM users see Special:ListFiles
  • To direct link to the file without displaying the file use: [['''Media:File.ogg''']]

Standardized Abbreviations

  • CXR Chest X-Ray / Radiograph
  • DM Diabetes Mellitus
  • HTN Hypertension
  • DDx Differential Diagnosis

Tables

See Also

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