Help:Navigation

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All WikEM articles are linked or cross-referenced for ease of navigation though the encyclopedia.

Where you see text, it means there is a link another article or Wikipedia page with further information if you need it. Holding your mouse over the link will show you where a link will take you. This means that articles do not need to cover common ground in depth; instead, you are always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached.

Some articles may also have links to dictionary definitions, audiobook readings, quotations, or the same article in other languages. You can contribute by adding further links if a relevant link is missing.

Main Page

There's a browsing bar at the top of the Main Page with links to Categories, Portals, Featured content and the A-Z index. Each category is a list of sub-categories or articles. Portals bring you to sub-portals and portals, which are illustrated article summaries like on the Main Page. Featured content is the way to the best articles, pictures, lists and portals in the encyclopedia. A-Z index finds a page from the first two or three letters of its title.

Contents and index browsing

WikEM contains lots of Emergency Medicine related information. To help you find your way around, WikEM has a Categories section, as well as numerous pages that organize information.

Category browsing

Every article has a list at the bottom of all the major categories it belongs to.

Other useful buttons and panels

Sidebar (left)

To the left side of each article are some standard options for navigation and interaction.

Navigation options:

• Main Page
• Notes by Category
• Search Notes
• Recent Changes
• Popular Notes
• Help

Using WikEM

• About WikEM
• WikEM on Smart Phone
• Create an Account
• Create & Edit Notes
• Suggest a New Note
• Suggest an Improvement

Toolbox options:

• What links here - useful for tracing where this article is referenced from
• Related changes - list of changes made recently to pages linked from the specified page
• Upload file - help with properly uploading images and other files to Wikipedia
• Special pages - all the special functions and administration options can be found here

Top tabs (above the article)

Each page in Wikipedia contains an article, and a discussion page

You can see these above: the article is labelled "project page", the discussion page is the tab to the right of it. These are treated as two separate pages in Wikipedia, but are shown side by side on the tab bar, for ease of use.

Whether you are looking at the article or project page, or the discussion page, you will see there is a button marked "edit this page", possibly a "new section" button, and a button labelled "watch" or "unwatch".

• edit this page - this is the key to contributing to WikEM. When you click this button, you change from viewing an article or discussion about an article, to being able to edit the article, or add comments to the discussion that is going on.
• Occasionally, pages that are important or may be vandalized are locked, in which case the "edit" will show "view source", and you will not be able to edit the article at that time.
• Page editing is simple with WikEM, and you cannot harm a page if you make a mistake, since all changes can be undone. This is part of Wikipedia's vandal protection.
• history - All editable pages on WikEM have an associated page history, which consists of the old versions of the wikitext, as well as a record of the date and time (in UTC) of every edit, the username or IP address of the user who wrote it, and their edit summary.
• watch/unwatch - adds or removes a page from your watchlist, the list of pages you are tracking. You can view your watchlist with the user option button "my watchlist" at the top right of the screen.

User options (top right)

These control your user account. To create a user account you only need to choose a name and a password. An email address is optional and only used for password reminders.

Unless you create an account you will not be able to edit WikEM and edit preferences for yourself. The user options also include links to view your watchlist (articles you are tracking), and contributions you have made.