From Otago Medical Student Wiki

This page describes the basics of how to create and edit pages on this wiki, check out the roadmap to see what needs attention. See the User's Guide for more detailed information (how to add images, upload files, etc). There's also a page on how to upload OSCEs.

Contents 1 Uploading Your Notes 2 Searching 3 Editing 4 Categories 5 How to upload OSCE

Uploading Your Notes

This wiki runs on the MediaWiki software, which provides a simple and easy-to-learn syntax for creating nice web pages. You can also convert Microsoft Word files to the wiki format with a Word macro like this one.

Searching

The easiest way to create a new article is to search for the title you want.

• First search for slightly broader/simpler terms related to your article, perhaps someone else has already written it under a different name... (doubt it).
• Then search with the exact title and capitalisation you want for your article.
• A red link will appear on the search results with 'create this page'. Red links are links to uncreated articles. Click on the link to create your page.

Editing

You should now have a window with the title of 'Editing (your article name here)'. Feel free to look at the source text for other pages (click the edit link on another article), you could also experiment with the icons at the top of the page and the 'show preview' button. Here's some quick tips for writing your page by hand:

• Write/cut-and-paste your text, keeping in mind the wiki software's syntax for bullet-points and headings:
• Headings are surrounded by two equals signs, subheadings by three

 Eg: ==Editing== would produce the same result as the heading for this section.

• Headings are quite handy for navigation because a page with several headings gets an automatic table of contents at the top.
• Bullet points are one asterisk, sub-bullets are two, etc.
• It is possible to convert MS Word files to wiki syntax with some word macros described here.
• Links to other pages in the wiki are surrounded by two square brackets. Links to other websites are surrounded by one square bracket.

 Eg: this is a link to [[infertility]] on our wiki, or check out [http://www.infertility.com] on the internet.

• The formatting is designed to organise itself into headings, paragraphs, and bullet-points, but if you really need to add a line of white space, do this:

<br/>

Categories

The wiki's pages are organised by categories in an alphabetical table of contents.

• Every useful page should have a category.
• Categories are assigned at the bottom of the page as internal wiki links (two square brackets) to Category:your category here.

 Eg: [[Category:Orthopaedics]]

• This creates the category box you see at the end of most pages, which links to a listing of all the articles in this category.
• Find an appropriate category by looking in the listing of main categories on the main page, or create a new one.
• New categories that should belong in the table of contents should be put in the Categories category (like this page is): this basically serves as our table of contents at the moment.

Categories are a bit tricky, look at how other pages are linked together to see how it works. If you're still having problems, ask someone else to put your page in the appropriate category for you, no problem.

How to upload OSCE

Please upload any good OSCE examples you have. The files can be categorised and renamed after you upload them, you can also do everything in one go:

1) Choose Upload file in the toolbox
2) Select the file in the upload page (Browse...)
3) Rename to something more descriptive, add 'hx' 'ex' or 'ed' for history, exam, education station
4) In the summary add the following:

 [[Category:OSCEs]]
 [[Category:x OSCEs]]

where x is the subcategory of the discipline (eg. Category:Neurology OSCEs). There is a list of OSCE subcategories on the OSCEs category page. If it doesn't work, just upload the file and tell someone to categorise it for you.