Help:Quick start

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Editing 3 Key Mark Up 3.1 Titles 3.2 Bullets 3.3 Links 3.4 Hints 3.5 Templates 3.6 References

Introduction

• The ethos behind Ganfyd is that is a free repository for the vast amount of knowledge that doctors carry around in their heads
• We broadly limit the ability to edit to Registered Medical Practitioners, but of course registered medical practitioners span a wide spectrum of opinion so we hope we have some of the strengths without some of the weaknesses of say Wikipedia.
• Once your registration is accepted you can create or edit any article. Such registration should be very painless for those with a doctors email address.
• We wish original contributions that do not infringe copyright. So please do not copy material verbatum from other sources where such infringement could be claimed.
• Your latest case presentation summary of the literature might be just what Ganfyd is about.

Editing

• Text can be entered with only a few markup symbols needed to get a good looking article. You can cut and paste say from a wonderful powerpoint presentation.
• Generally you should try to summarise knowledge. We welcome references (using pubmed especially) so others can delve deeper.

Key Mark Up

Titles

• use equal signs on a new line vis:
  • ==Major Heading==
  • ===Minor Heading===

Bullets

• use:
  • Asterix at beginning of a new line, indenting with extra asterix's **Asterix at beginning of a new line,...
  1. And you can number by using hash. *#And you can number by using hash....

Links

• Square brackets to enclose: [Quick start] is this link: Quick start with the space after the URL indicating where the link text starts
• Double square brackets is internal syntax[[Help:Quick start|Quick start]] is this link:Quick start with the pipe symbol separating the text displayed.

Hints

• Use the preview button before publication to pick up typos etc.
• Don't have spaces at beginning of lines (This will actually create a special type of display box)
• If you get strange characters, this is usually due to cutting and pasting from other sources or a strange key board mapping
• Goto Help:Contribute for fuller details.
• Copyright (from say Wikipedia) can be acknowledged in edited text by using the HTML comment string <!-- This is a copyright comment-->

Templates

• Please visit Help:Template to see housestyle templates such as:
  • {{KeyPointsBox|PLACE YOUR TEXT HERE}}
  • {{WarningBox|PLACE YOUR TEXT HERE}}
  • {{InterestBox|PLACE YOUR TEXT HERE}}
  • {{QuotationBox|QUOTATION|ORIGINATOR}}
• There are also copyright templates on the same page.

References

• Please visit Help:Citations for full details
• The preferred house syntax is <ref>[[pubmed:refno|Reference details]]</ref>
• And if you insert such a reference where it occurs in the text it is indexed automatically in footnote style. At the end of the page type {{refsec}} and your references are displayed.