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-Eric, OrganizedWisdom tech team
Deep Linking
There have been a lot of questions about deep linking. On most sites there will be links at the side or top of the page to click that take you to more specific information rather than the general top-level information on the topic. That's what we mean by "deep linking" instead of just linking to the first page of information.
For example, let's say you are trying to fill the "What are the Side Effects of Amoxicillin?" section of the Amoxicillin WisdomCard. If you are on a website and click on "Side Effects" this should bring you to the side effects section of the page or even a new page on side effects and in turn give you a new URL which you would use on your WisdomCard.
On some sites you may need to get creative. In the case of MedicineNet, for example, Internet Explorer and Firefox will work differently. If you are using Firefox, when you click on links within the page you will get the new URL; however, with IE it may not work as smoothly.
For the Amoxicillin example, on MedicineNet, you will start on this page: Amoxicillin Chewable Tablets - Oral. Now to get to side effects you would click "Side Effects" near the top of the page. If you are using Firefox, you can then copy & paste the URL into your WisdomCard. However, if you are using Internet Explorer, you will notice that the URL does not change. To get the correct URL to link directly to this section of the page, you can right-click on the paragraph that you are trying to link to, then scroll down to select "Properties" and a new box will pop up with the URL to that specific part of the page.
Another work-around example would be for Drugs.com. There are no links to a direct URL for side effects on either the MedFacts (via Drugs.com) or PDR (via Drugs.com) amoxicillin information pages. For either of those links, you would have to put in a {{Scroll}} tag to use them in the "Side Effects of Amoxicillin" section of the WisdomCard. The way to bypass that is to click on "Drug Side Effects" on the right hand side of the page. This will take you to: Drug Side Effects. On this page look for the drug where it would appear in the alphabetical listing. In the case of Amoxicillin it would be in "Aldex AN → Antihemophilic Factor/von Willebrand Factor (Human)." When you click on that link, it will bring you to: Side Effects "A". From there, just scroll down and click on "Amoxicillin" and you will be brought to: Amoxicillin Side Effects -- which is a nice, direct URL for Amoxicillin side effects (and does not need a "via" since it is Drugs.com content).
--Chris Miller June 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm (EDT)
How to Order Your Links
The order you choose to feature each resource links on a WisdomCard is very important and special care should be taken when making decisions about how to rank each site. Here are 4 tips to help make the process easier.
1) The most useful and relevant resources should be linked first within each section. Put the best ones first.
2) Rank the critically acclaimed sites higher.
3) Think about the logical flow you suggest a person should read each resource and put them in that order.
4) The Guide Favorite does NOT have to be ranked first. This is your opportunity to share your personal favorite.
--Unity Stoakes June 18, 2008 at 7:58 am (EDT)
Quote Marks and Great Grammar Site
I have noticed that it is an extremely common punctuation error to place quotes on the wrong side of periods/commas (not just on our site, but all over the place).
I found a quick reference that everyone should look over and make an effort to check your Research Notes as you write:
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: Quotation Marks
In fact, that site looks very helpful in general, so everyone will probably want to bookmark it and check it whenever you have a question on grammar. :-)
-- NicoleK June 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm (EDT)
Watch Those Sites!!
When using articles in your WisdomCard, make sure you read through and know what the whole article says. Many are bad translations, selectively picking words from tracking programs, some of which are full of spam. This was used on a recent WisdomCard, not yet approved. Can you spot the reasons it shouldn't have been used?
http://diabetes.thedescriptionpills.com/?p=55
At first glance, it may appear to be an article on vaccines, but upon
reading the content, you can see this would not be appropriate to
place in a card.
--AmyS Jun. 4, 2008 at 5:59 am (EDT)
Tips on Creating Inner Links in Research Notes and Fast Facts
When inner linking your Research Notes and Fast Facts, please be sure that the card you are linking to relates to what you are speaking about in your Research Notes. For instance, you would not want to link the term "Liver" to liver cancer, if your Research Notes were not speaking about liver cancer. Likewise, you would not want to link to to the Weight Loss WisdomCard -- which is about dieting -- if your Research Notes are about weight loss as a symptom of a disease.
Keep in mind that our Wiki coding is case sensitive... so you may find that trying to inner link to a term is not working with your particular word. For instance, if you are linking a word in the middle of a sentence and this word needs to be lower cased; you would not want to simply capitalize this word in order to get the link to 'work' - as now, your grammar is incorrect.
If you are linking to the card [[Asthma]] and you need this lower cased, for example - this is what you do:
Use the word or term as it appears in the card first (Asthma), then add a line, followed by the smaller cased word. Like this: [[Asthma|asthma]].
Kudos to the writer of our WisdomCard "High Cholesterol! Check out how they inner linked this sentence: High cholesterol does not cause specific symptoms so it is important to [[Cholesterol Blood Test|get levels checked]] at least every five years. As you can see, they linked our Cholesterol Blood Test WC to the term "get levels checked". Nice job!!
--TaraS May 28, 2008 at 9:37 am (EDT)
Google Search Tips:
1) If you are searching a for a specific phrase, add quotes around the phrase. For example: if you want to find information on teen pregnancy, put "teen pregnancy" in the search box. Google will find pages on teen pregnancy, rather than pages that list teen and pregnancy separately.
2) Try to search for variations of your topic. Using the example above, you might search for "pregnancy in adolescents" or "pregnant teens".
3) If you want to search a specific site for a search term, put your search term followed by site:www.SITENAMEHERE.com. For example: "teen pregnancy" site:www.webmd.com
4) If you want to find a definition, you can try two things: The first is simply type your search term followed by the word definition into the search box (pregnancy definition), or you can type define:SEARCH TERM HERE. For example: define:"pregnancy"
These may also work in other search engines, but I am referring primarily to Google.
Jacky May 20, 2008 at 7:42 pm (EDT)
Quality News/Blogs: A great spot for finding quality "wisdom" blogs is to utilize the New York Times website. Searches here have revealed great articles regarding various health topics. Check it out!
--TaraS
Other Research Notes examples:
Lyme Disease: "The most common symptom associated with Lyme Disease is the characteristic reddish "bulls-eye" rash, with accompanying fever, malaise, and musculoskeletal pain. The characteristic reddish "bulls-eye" rash appears from one day to a month after a tick bite. The rash is not an allergic reaction from the bite itself but from a skin infection caused by the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato."
Corrected: “The most common sign associated with early lyme disease is the characteristic reddish "bulls-eye" rash, also known as erythema migrans (EM). This rash is considered to be the hallmark of early infection and may be accompanied by fever, malaise, and musculoskeletal pain. Early treatment of lyme disease helps to avoid serious complications of the disease."
Important Take-Away Points: 1. Erythema migrans, fever and malaise are hyperlinked to their own WisdomCards and were added as related searches. 2. Things you can see are called “signs”; what people tell you they feel are called “symptoms."
Tough topics: Sometimes you'll get a WisdomCard topic like Rogaine or Viagra, where there are a million sites out there but your search results are overwhelmed with sleazy sales sites.
One way to get around this is to filter your search. The search engine Healia makes this easy. Search for your topic, then check off "HonCode Sites." This will get you only sites which have subscribed to the Health on the Net standards -- which means you're much more likely to get a reputable health site.
-- PatWashburn
PubMed searches, Take 3: Working off Nicole's first work-around, here's one that should work really well. You need to have an account at PubMed:
- 1. Enter Search Topic
- 2. Click on Limits Tab
- 3. Go to Limit by Date: Published in the last: 5years
- 4. Click Go
- 5. Save Search
- 6. Click OK
- 7. Click on Preview/Index Tab
- 8. Click on the last query under "Most Recent Queries", this will bring up a green box
- 9. Click on Details
- 10. Click on URL
- 11. Copy URL from browser
-- ElisaC Jan. 7, 2008 at 4:48 pm (EST)
PubMed searches, Take 2: This link should work (we can hope): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=TERMHERE
%20AND%20human%5Bmh%5D%20AND%20english%5Bla%5D&db=PubMed
&orig_db=PubMed&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=
added%20to%20PubMed%20in%20the%20last%205%20years&cmd=search
Replace the TERMHERE with your search term and copy the entire link into one line (I broke it up here because it was going all the way across the page otherwise). The address bar on your browser will likely still show only the hidden search terms (PubMed's default), but if you use this above link on your WisdomCard it should work. Your results should be limited to the last 5 years, be articles about humans and written in English.
-- NicoleK Jan. 2, 2008 at 4:17 pm (EST)
