User talk:Palmd001

Suggestions
I left a message for you at the bottom of the Colloquium. There are probably resources on Wikibooks which might be of use too. Take a look at b:Wikibooks:Health science bookshelf. We can link to those pages as well. --HappyCamper 20:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * For the moment, the best rule of thumb I can share with you is to be bold with your editing. After all, we learn a tremendous amount as we edit - novices and wiki-veterans alike. It takes a while for communities to grow, but it does happen. Take a look at our languages page, for example. Pace yourself with editing so that it remains a fun and fulfilling aspect of working on Wikiversity. Also, I would suggest clicking on various buttons and images on Wikiversity, so that you get a feel for how a Wiki is structured. Practically everything is editable. Also, take a look at the panel to your left - particularly the special pages link. There are a lot of goodies there which you will find useful for editing and exploring Wikiversity. Also, when you edit, take note of the little buttons right above the edit window. They are there to make editing easier for you. The sandbox is a nice place to do editing experiments. Glad to have you around! --HappyCamper 22:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * We have a Help desk, but it is a little disorganized. I'd go for creating a desk specific to internal medicine. The long term vision for the help desk would be a centralized discussion area where anyone can ask and help with answering questions, similar to Wikipedia's reference desk, but on a much larger scale. If you like, you can create a help desk as a subpage of what you have at internal medicine. --HappyCamper 23:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * For buttons and pictures, I'd encourage a visit to Commons, say this place. Commons is a central repository of shared media between various Wikimedia projects, and all the images there can be used on Wikiversity. You can also upload pictures to Wikiversity directly if you like. And yes, I think your word choice embryonic is very fitting for this process. :-) --HappyCamper 23:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

medical pages
I have a phd in pharmacology and have taught embryology, physiology, microbiology and biochemistry to medical students. I suggest that it might be useful to think about how to build Wikiversity content around and in parallel to existing content at Wikipedia and Wikibooks. For medical topics, I think there is a large audience of non-experts that could benefit from educational resources at Wikiversity. Some Wikipedia articles get too complicated and jargon-laden for non-experts. Any efforts aimed at making Wikiversity content for medical students should probably be carefully planned so as to make sure that textbook-like material ends up in Wikibooks. What do you think? User:JWSchmidt

image maps
"I'd like that to actually be a link button back to the school of med" <-- I made a change to Topic:Internal medicine, please let me know it this is not what you wanted. In general, image maps are not favored as tools for providing navigation between wiki pages. In general, "navigation templates" are used. There are many good examples of navigation templates at Wikipedia. See also w:Wikipedia:Navigational templates. We really need to start being more sophisticated about our page navigation tools here at Wikiversity. If you need help setting up navigation tools on Wikiversity pages, let me know. I have been intending to create a tutorial for this topic! --JWSchmidt 14:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

"using the image on School of Med main pages just as an identifier" <-- I think it makes sense to have some kind of "iconic" symbol on related pages such as the school of medicine pages. Take a look at this example of a navigation box. It is not the best example, but it is the first one I found at Wikipedia. The point is, each "Topic:" page for the Wikiversity school of medicine could have a copy of a navigation box providing an image, a link back to the main "School:" page and links to other related pages. The School:Medicine page could also use these navigation boxes rather than long lists of links. see another example, and one more. What do you think? --JWSchmidt 14:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)


 * All of them seem to have their uses, although I wonder about simplicity, both visual and navigational. Something iconic to remind you where you are and to get you back where you can renavigate. It gets very confusing as you go deeper into the layers of a wiki. I don't have a preferred solution at this point, but the ones you showed me are much more sophisticated.  PalMD 15:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

copyrighted logos
I think some universities do not allow free use of their logo (example). There seem to be some university logos at Wikimedia Commons (example: Image:Glasgow Logo.jpg). When uploading new images for use at Wikiversity, I suggest caution with any image that you did not create yourself; you should provide evidence that you know who controls the copyright and how the image has been licensed for use (see Uploading files). --JWSchmidt 20:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Looking forward to working on the med school!
Glad to find someone else out there looking to get some good studying materials online for med students! Koppertone 04:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problems

 * Your currently affected uploads are listed below. For each, please provide a license template and a source. Thanks. – Mike.lifeguard &#124; @en.wb 23:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * 2007-05-10 18:25, Palmd001: STD 47.jpg: untagged! ; 1 (1)
 * 2007-05-10 18:27, Palmd001: STD 50.jpg: untagged! ; 1 (1)