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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, undertake the Wikipedia orientation, assign yourself articles, start editing

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.

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)

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


Introduction to Medical Editing (Video)

Introduction to medical editing video


List of other resources: How to edit medical content on Wikipedia