Wikipedia:ILAE Wikipedia Project/Training materials

  How to Edit Wikipedia: Online tutorials

Thanks for your interest in joining the ILAE Wikipedia Project. We urge you to go through the following online course. It is simple, easy, and does not take much time.

The first step would be to create a Wikipedia account in case you do not have one already. We prefer the username to reflect the real life identity. This is important for you to receive credits for your work.

Now, visit the project page dashboard and enrol for the program. This will make your contributions trackable.

This includes a basic Wikipedia orientation (alternative source) as well as instructions on how to edit medical articles.

Here is more stuff that you might like to go through.

Have 5 mins? Watch this video and you would know why contributing to medical articles could be helpful for you.

Interested further? Watch this talk to get familiar with what can be done, and how they can be done.

Wikipedia's Guidelines for editing content pertaining to human health:

  Introduction to Medical Editing (Video)   List of other resources: How to edit medical content on Wikipedia


 * WikiProject Medicine/How to edit
 * Wikimedia Medicine
 * Wikipedia and Medicine: Slides presented by Dr. James Heilman at UBC
 * WikiEducation: Downloadable pdf with instructions on how to edit medical articles on Wikipedia
 * How to edit medical content on Wikipedia
 * Tutorial - Wikipedia Medicine Newbie Crash Course by User:Amosabo for Students 4 Best Evidence
 * Tutorial - An introduction to Wikipedia editing includes guides for using VisualEditor to edit text, images, and references
 * Video - How to be a Wikipedia medical editor video by Ian Furst
 * Video - METRO Webcast Wikipedia and Medicine, Streamed live on Dec 10, 2014 by Metropolitan New York Library Council
 * WikiEducation