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Welcome to Physiopedia!
== Welcome to Physiopedia! ==
'''Thank you for joining this community effort to provide a credible knowledge resource for our global Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy profession.  We welcome you to the team!'''


To begin your career as a Physiopedia Editor you will first want to fill out your profile page so that all your edits can be credited to you.  
To begin your career as a Physiopedia Editor you will first want to fill out your profile page so that all your edits can be credited to you. Once you are logged in your profile page can be accessed from the drop down menu under Tools in the navigation bar. Click on your name to go to your profile page.  [[Editing your profile|Check out the Editing Profile tutorial.]]


Before embarking on this you should read the [[Editing pages|editing a page tutorial so]] you are familiar with the process of editing a Physiopedia page.
[[File:Link to profile page.png|frameless]]


The when you are ready go to your profile page and fill out / edit your details.  Access your profile page by clicking on '''Tool'''s in the top navigation bar and selecting '''Your Name''' from the drop down menu.  
Once you have updated your profile page you can feel confident that any contribution you make to Physiopedia will be credited back to your own profile page.


[[Image:profile-menu.png|Profile menu item]]<br>
Now you are ready to get to improving the content of Physiopedia!!  Take your time to explore the existing pages and wherever you have a contribution to make, go ahead and edit that page.  Typical contributions include corrections (e.g. to spelling and formatting), improving (e.g. to the content of a page) or (updating (e.g. adding new evidence).


You may wish to refer to the example profiles below for some ideas about what to write. Don't worry about getting it perfect straight away, you can always come back to it later.
[[Editing pages|Check out the Editing tutorial]]


*[[User:Rachael Lowe|Rachael Lowe]]
As you gain more confidence and want to make more significant contributions such as adding images and videos you may wish to check out the other [[Help:User Tutorials|user tutorials]].
*[[User:Evan Thomas|Evan Thomas]]
*[[User:George Prudden|George Prudden]]
*[[User:Wendy Walker|Wendy Walker]]
*[[User:Scott Buxton|Scott Buxton]]


Now get to improving the content of Physiopedia!!  Take your time to explore the existing pages and wherever you have a contribution to make, go ahead and edit that page...
If you enjoy editing Physiopedia and would like to become part of the core volunteer editing team we would welcome you on to the [[Volunteer]] team.
 
As you gain more confidence you may wish to refer to the other [[Help:User Tutorials|user tutorials]].

Revision as of 14:54, 16 August 2017

Welcome to Physiopedia![edit | edit source]

Thank you for joining this community effort to provide a credible knowledge resource for our global Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy profession. We welcome you to the team!

To begin your career as a Physiopedia Editor you will first want to fill out your profile page so that all your edits can be credited to you. Once you are logged in your profile page can be accessed from the drop down menu under Tools in the navigation bar. Click on your name to go to your profile page. Check out the Editing Profile tutorial.

Link to profile page.png

Once you have updated your profile page you can feel confident that any contribution you make to Physiopedia will be credited back to your own profile page.

Now you are ready to get to improving the content of Physiopedia!! Take your time to explore the existing pages and wherever you have a contribution to make, go ahead and edit that page. Typical contributions include corrections (e.g. to spelling and formatting), improving (e.g. to the content of a page) or (updating (e.g. adding new evidence).

Check out the Editing tutorial

As you gain more confidence and want to make more significant contributions such as adding images and videos you may wish to check out the other user tutorials.

If you enjoy editing Physiopedia and would like to become part of the core volunteer editing team we would welcome you on to the Volunteer team.