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.

Create a free Wikipedia account

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

Enrol for the program

Thereafter go through the training materials given there. This includes a basic Wikipedia orientation (alternative source) as well as instructions on how to edit medical articles.

After you are done with the basic stuff, you can be ready to go ahead with medical articles on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia editing for medical experts

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

Wikipedia, WikiProject Medicine, and All of Us (5:51)

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

Medical Students editing Wikipedia (46.08)