wex authoring help

Wex is written from an American law perspective. 

what are the categories?

Wex currently employs two systems for categorizing entries:

What is Wex?

Wex is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia. It is intended for a broad audience of people, ranging from lawyers to law students to people who have no experience with the law!  No doubt purists will be quick to point out the differences between a dictionary and an encyclopedia. We deliberately blur the distinction, as we are interested in providing objective, useful material in a range of formats. (See Why bother?.)

• WEX General
• lii staff
• legal information institute

For the time being, the ability to make and edit contributions is loosely limited to a pool of invited author/editors.

Various types of editing help are available:

This is a series of stylistic tips:

We've made it easy to link Wex articles to a rich collection of legal resources outside of Wex itself. Here are instructions for a number of commonly-used outside collections and resources. If you know of other, stable collections of legal information on the Web that you think Wex authors might be interested in, please let us know.

Linking instructions for commonly-used legal resources

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Deciding what to write

You can find some thoughts about this in the page on

At the outset we considered simply adding to the law entries in Wikipedia, but we decided against it, temporarily, for several reasons: