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Wikipedia in the Health Sciences

This guide covers what Wikipedia is, what its core and biomedical content policies are, how to use it responsibly as an information resource, and how to contribute to it.

How do you edit Wikipedia?

Around 130,000 people have edited Wikipedia in the last month! Would you like to join that number? It's extremely easy to get started. Editing can be as simple as fixing a typo or as complex as writing an entirely new article. 

Wikipedia articles can be edited using the Visual Editing Toolbar, so you don't need to know any special code to edit. 

Screenshot of Femur article in Edit mode with Visual Editing Toolbar circled

Below are two tutorials to get you started:

For more guidance or a walk-through, contact me!