Updating and creating notes on WikEM

Creating a New Note

  1. YOU MUST FIRST LOGIN
    1. See Create an Account
      1. 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
    1. 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
    2. If you don't find a note on your subject, click on the link: "Create the page on this wiki!"
      1. Use the Boilerplate (Template) function for your type of note (see Templates below)
  3. Please follow formatting guidelines below

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
  • Put a category at the end of the entry
  • Feel free to divide notes into several notes, or combine them if it makes them more useful
  • Use one of the Templates to autogenerate sections in new articles

Editing Notes

Headings

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

Bullet points

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

Outline numbers/letters

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

Category

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

Internal Links

  • [[NameOfLinkedToNote]]

Images

  • Upload image in .jpg or .png format using the "Upload file" on the left. All images should be "creative commons" licensed
  • [[File:File.jpg]]to use the full version of the file
  • [[File:File.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]] to use a 200 pixel wide rendition in a box in the left margin with 'alt text' as description
  • [['''Media:File.ogg''']]for directly linking to the file without displaying the file

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

Quizes

wikitext rendering comments 
 {Question
 |type="()"}
 + The correct answer.
 || Feedback for correct answer.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.

Question

The correct answer.
Distractor.
Distractor.
Distractor.

  • Feedback is text which is initially hidden, and then shown to the user when they submit the quiz for correction. Feedback typically serves the purposes of encouragement, explanation, congratulation and commiseration.
  • Feedback is set with all types by using a double vertical line || immediately after a response.
  • The pipes beginning the feedback section must be on a new line.
  • Unlike some other quiz systems, all feedback items are displayed on correction. With other quiz systems, the norm is to display the feedback only for those items which were selected by the user.
  • To try out the feedback effect, choose a response and click the correction button. The feedback will then appear.

Boilerplate Templates

Images

  1. To upload an image to WikEM
    1. Log-in
    2. Click on the link Special:Upload which appears under 'Toolbox' in the links on the left
      1. The page also includes directions for how to use the images once uploaded
      2. Please be considerate of the Style Guidelines
      3. For formatting of the file (resizing, thumbnails, etc..) please refer to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Linking_to_an_image_without_displaying_it
  2. To see a list of uploaded images by WikEM users see Special:ListFiles

Standardized Abbreviations

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

Tables

Tables have a special Notation


See Also

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