So, you want to help out and add some content to our site? Great! We ask you follow these 3 golden rules:

• Your information must be accurate
• You information must be original or provide unique insight
• You must include sources cited in the original article

The Basics

Healthocrates is an editable web site powered by a free software called Php Wiki. Php Wiki allows anyone (that is a member) to edit or create any page on the site. You just need to decide where to start.

• Create a new article - when you are ready to create a new article click here.
• Edit an existing article - Go to any content page and click where you see the red arrow below:

When creating a new article you will have to fill out the following information:

Below this you will see the box where you should enter the text from the article. It should look like this:

The text of the page will be displayed inside an editable textarea. When you're satisfied with your changes, press the "Submit" button. Your changes will appear after they have been reviewed by Healthocrates staff.  Our staff is constantly reviewing articles around the clock.  Changes are often visible only a few hours after you make your submission. 

 
Below is a short description about each button.

	Bold text style (Ctrl+B).
	Italic text style (Ctrl+I).
	Underline text style (Ctrl+U).
	Strikethrough text style.
	Align left.
	Align center.
	Align right.
	Align full.
	Unordered list/bullet list.
	Ordered list/numbered list
	Outdent/decrease indentation.
	Indent/increase indentation.
	Undo the last operation (Ctrl+Z).
	Redo the last operation (Ctrl+Y).
	Insert a new link, read more about this function in the Insert link section.
	Unlinks the current selection/removes all selected links.
	Insert a new anchor, read more about this function in the Insert anchor section.
	Insert a new image, read more about this function in the Insert image section.
	Cleanup code/Removes unwanted formating. This function is useful when you copy contents from for example a office product.
	Shows this help window.
	Opens HTML source code editor.
	Inserts a new horizontal ruler
	Removes formatting from the selection.
	Makes the selection to be subscript.
	Makes the selection to be superscripted.
	Insert a special character.
	Prints your current article.
	Toggles 'full screen editing' mode.
	Runs the spellchecker.
	Insert YouTube video. Paste the snippet from YouTube into your article using this button.
	If you use the 'copy' feature to bring text in from another source, this will remove all the formatting associated with that text. This formatting can sometimes be troublesome and this button can be a great help.
	Same as above, except this is designed to insert contents 'copied' directly from MS Word.
	Selects entire contents of the article.

Insert Image

The insert image button opens the window shown below.



You simply enter a URL to the image you want to link to and enter a image description, this is then displayed as an alternative text descripton of the image on the page.

Field descriptions:

Insert / Edit a Link

This button opens a new window with the insert/edit link function.



There are two fields in this window the first one "Link URL" is the URL of the link. The target enables you to select how the link is to be opened.


Field descriptions:

Insert / Edit an Anchor

This button opens a new window with the insert/edit anchor function.



There are one field in this window, this is where you enter the name of you anchor point. Remember the anchor name needs to be unique.

Once you save the page, your change will be noted in Healthocrates Recent Changes. We save the original submission of any new article, that way we can always roll back the history of any article. . Any revisions can be rolled back and diff'ed against other versions of a page. That's the beauty of Healthocrates: anything can be done and undone and corrected and added to realtime, and there are full logs of all of the activity, time-stamped and available for everyone to view and review. Don't think your change will go unnoticed, because it won't. Your edit to an existing article is written in blue font- that way users know it is an edit to the origial. The place is crawliing with readers and writers and your change will be swept away immediately if it's not correct or legit.

Your Healthocrates member page

My healthocrates member page reveals that the few changes I've made over time and also displayes my subjects or forum threads I wish to track.

Be bold but not reckless

Healthocrates advice to editors is be bold but don't be reckless. (Pretty good life advice, as well.) Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, then fix it. Worried about breaking Healthocrates? Don't be: it can always be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Healthocrates the best source of medical information on the Internet!