WikiAnesthesia Contributor Guide

There are lots of ways to contribute to WikiAnesthesia, whatever your profession, training level, or location through creating, editing, and discussing articles on the main site or within your Practice Group.

Creating & Managing An Account

In order to contribute to WikiAnesthesia you will need to create an account:

1. Create an account. We ask for users' real name and credentials to attribute credit appropriately and facilitate growth of the WikiAnesthesia community.
2. Confirm your email address (required before creating content). If you do not receive a confirmation email, check your spam folder. You can also resend the email from the email options section of your preferences.

New users can create new articles and edit most articles on the site immediately. To combat spam, any changes made by new users will be visible to that user, but not immediately reflected on the public site until they are reviewed by an editor. Once a new user has made several successful edits, their account will be promoted to the contributor level which will bypass editor review of future contributions. can we go over this process please; possibly move to section below

To manage your account click the Account button in the top right corner and select Preferences

- Public Profile

- Institutional Affiliation

- Editor settings

Important Information for New Users

Before you begin creating or editing content, please review the following information carefully

WikiAnesthesia Vision/Principles (?name)

WikiAnesthesia content should follow these basic principles:

- Concept here of open, no barriers, self-regulation, and oversight

- Work in Progress

- Open, Collaborative, & Inclusive (worldwide)

- Clinically Relevant

- Unbiased

Etiquette

- interprofessionalism

Using the Editor

Creating a new article

Using page templates

Using the article editor

Switching between "visual" and "source" editing

Adding media to an article

Citations

- Automatic citation generation

- Manual citation

Article Style Guide

General Recommendations

- Abbreviations, brand names, terminology, formatting

Practice Groups

Intro

Getting Credit for Contributions

Intro

Other Rewards & Recognition

- Editorial levels

- Scholarly Electives

- Special Recognition