Introduction

We take the quality of each WisdomCard very seriously, and it's important to us to give people who use OrganizedWisdom reliable health information, organized for easy reading and understanding.

Read these pages carefully! It's important that you understand what we're looking for, because your first few WisdomCards are a tryout. If you submit a WisdomCard three times and it does not meet our quality standards, you may be dropped from the Guide training program.

Following the successful completion of your first few WisdomCards, we'll ask you to work and train as a Guide applicant with the goal of becoming "certified" by our physician review team.

What to Know

When you are welcomed as a Guide applicant, you will be given access to create WisdomCards and instructions on how to claim your first topic.

When you get to the list of unclaimed WisdomCards, you will see that they all have a yellow box at the top saying they are "in progress." This is to let our users know that a WisdomCard has not yet been approved. If it's in the unclaimed list, it is available for you to claim -- provided you are a Guide and logged in.

When you look at your WisdomCard, provided you're logged in, you'll see a blue bar containing white links down at the bottom of your screen. Click "Edit" to see the code you'll be editing. (To see the useful shortcut keys for your browser and operating system, go here: Wikipedia:Keyboard Shortcuts.)

Some of this will look confusing. You can ignore anything in curly brackets, including all the places you see {{PAGENAME}}. This is NOT something you have to replace. Putting PAGENAME in double curly quotes tells our system to automatically insert the name of the page. Less work for you!

The Basic Elements of a WisdomCard

1. Our goal is to feature 5-10 fantastic resources on each WisdomCard.
2. Complete the "Research Notes" section by including some useful and relevant information on the topic. Research Notes should be one to three sentences long.
3. Select at least one "Guide Favorite" by inserting this code: {{toppick}} after the most useful links on the WisdomCard.
4. Insert "Warning Icons" to indicate sensitive sites or alert people about special issues. (See the code for Warning Icons in the full instructions on finding and formatting the best links.)
5. Organize each link so that it specifically relevant to the topic and ranked according to the authority of the site and relevancy of the link.
6. List "Related Searches" -- topics that are related to the WisdomCard you are working on.
7. Check spelling and formatting to make sure that it is correct.
8. You may link to any type of media in your search result (audio, video, text, Flash, etc.).
9. Add "redirects" to help users find your card.

Step 1: Find Great Links

Start by becoming familiar with health sites included on the Useful Resources list. While it is expected that you preferentially utilize these health sites, don't confine yourself to those if you find better sites! Your topic may be one where there are specialized sites or pages available, and it's your job to find the most useful resources for your topic.

See our full instructions on finding and formatting the best links! This is the foundation of everything we do here at OrganizedWisdom.

We have a zero tolerance for spam here at OrganizedWisdom, so be sure you understand how to find and evaluate links for inclusion on your WisdomCards. If you ever have a question about including a site or not, our full time staff will be happy to help you.

Step 2: Add Research Notes

The "Research Notes" section goes at the top of the WisdomCard and is the first thing users see. It also shows up in search results. Because it's so important to get this right, we've provided separate pages on Great Research Notes. Please review these as you craft your first Research Notes, and return to them frequently to refresh your memory on your second and subsequent Research Notes. Reviewers may ask you to go over these pages to make sure your Research Notes meet our standards.

Step 3: Add News

Some topics -- like brand name drugs or news topics -- contain an RSS feed that automatically generates the latest news articles.

Watch the video: Adding the RSS News Feed

If the WisdomCard you've selected has a News section -- "5 Latest Headlines About {{PAGENAME}}" -- then you'll need to add the RSS feed. We're using Google News as our news source, although if the results are better at Topix or particularly MedWorm, please use the best results you can find -- all you have to do is grab one URL and paste it into the template twice. Here's how:

• Go to Google News
• Type your topic into the search box
• At the far right side of the address bar you'll see a little blue logo that will say "Subscribe to this page..." if you mouse over it.
• Click on this logo and copy the new URL.
• Paste it into the News code where it calls for a URL. The result will look something like this (using "lymphedema" as an example):

==5 Latest Headlines on {{PAGENAME}}==
<rss number=5 desc=off>http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=lymphedema&output=rss</rss>
* [http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=lymphedema&output=rss More {{PAGENAME}} News from Topix]

Step 4: Add Related Topics

Include related topics on each WisdomCard. Enclose each health topic in two pairs of square brackets. Be sure to put each condition on a separate line with an asterisk in front of it, just as with the other sets of links.

For example:

* [[Diabetes]]
* [[High Cholesterol]]
* [[Insulin Pump]]

The reason for doing this is so users of the site will be much more inclined to visit all of the other WisdomCards that are being created. As a result, they will go deeper into the site, visit more pages, and hopefully learn even more along the way!

Here's an example of a good related WisdomCards section for the Miscarriage WisdomCard:

Related Searches:

• Placenta Previa
• Threatened Abortion
• Miscarriage at 6 Weeks Symptoms
• Bleeding After Miscarriage
• Spontaneous Abortion After Fetal Heartbeat
• Odds of Miscarriage After 8 Weeks
• Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy
• Returning to Work After Miscarriage
• Causes for Early Miscarriages
• Conceiving a Baby After Miscarriage

Ideally, you should have 10-15 Related WisdomCards on the face of your WisdomCard, including interlinks which automatically appear in that list. See the Great Research Notes instructions for more details on interlinks.

Here is another example:

The Related WisdomCard section of the edit code -- as you can see, you can use underscores within the WisdomCard titles or not; both work:

The resulting Related WisdomCards section on face of the WisdomCard -- as you can see, there are 10 Related WisdomCards showing on the face, but only 7 in the edit code. This is because the 3 interlinks in the Research Notes also show there automatically:

Step 5: Check Your Work!!

• Are the Research Notes interesting, informative and well-written?
• Are there as close to 10 great links as possible in the Top Resources section?
• Is every link relevant to the topic?
• Click each link. Does it go to the correct site?
• Is there a mix of resources, with some more technical (such as eMedicine or UpToDate) and some written more for the average person?
• Are all links authoritative and reliable?
• Is everything spelled and formatted correctly?

When your WisdomCard is ready, click "Submit for review" at the bottom. Our reviewer team will get back to you with feedback within 7 to 10 days. Do not claim new WisdomCards until after you receive this feedback -- it won't save any time if you claim more cards but then have to go back and correct the same mistakes on all of them.