Updating and creating notes on WikEM
Creating a New Note
- 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.
- See Create an Account
- 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)
- 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
*Please read the wikipedia tutorial:
Headings
- ==Heading 1==
- ===Heading 2===
- ====Heading 3====
Bullet points (Prefered)
- *Level 1
- **Level 2
- ***Level 3
- ****Level 4
- ***Level 3
- **Level 2
Outline numbers (Less preffered than bullet points; see above)
- #Level 1
- ##Level 2
- ###Level 3
- ####Level 4
- ###Level 3
- ##Level 2
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]
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
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.
Quizes
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{Question |type="()"} + The correct answer. || Feedback for correct answer. - Distractor. || Feedback for distractor. - Distractor. || Feedback for distractor. - Distractor. || Feedback for distractor. |
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Boilerplate Templates
- You can auto-generate Boilerplate Templates when creating a new note (click on function at top of new note page)
- Contributors are encouraged to update old pages to the current templates, when applicable
- Current templates are:
- Boilerplate source (for adding new templates) is at MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate
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
- The page also includes directions for how to use the images once uploaded
- Please be considerate of the Style Guidelines
- 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
- 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
- Use http://excel2wiki.net/
- Then, change first line to: {| class="wikitable"
- Can see WikiMedia special Notation