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Thanks to the members who volunteered to help out with this project. I'm hoping to get it completed in the next 2 weeks or so.
***Since this is a work thread where we need to keep organized in order to be effective, I'm asking that all posts here be on topic, project related stuff. Please post other conversation in the "Volunteers needed" thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=652551 ***
The first thing we need to do is to look for dead links and links that no longer go to their intended target. For example, there may be some pages from the ACPE website that now direct to their main website rather than the specific pages that they used to.
There are 31 posts in the FAQ. Let's just go post by post and work through it. When you sit down to do a post or set of posts, please make a post saying "I'm working on posts # through whatever". As you finish each post, please make a post saying "post # has no bad links" or "in post #" these links need to be fixed. Don't worry about finding new links. We can take care of that part later.
Once we find any dead links, let's go through and verify the accuracy of content. What especially needs to be reviewed is the lists of schools offering different types of programs. For example, I got a PM last week saying that Duquesne no longer offers a 0-6 program. If we can still search the ACPE website by program type, that will be the easiest way to update the list.
The third thing we can do is to look at each post and see if we could expand the section to be more helpful. That could mean putting information directly in a post instead of posting a link to the information (making dead links less problematic in the future) or adding content that doesn't already exist.
The other thing that we can do is to brainstorm new, helpful sections to add to the FAQ. We can really do that throughout the process. I encourage anyone who is just browsing this thread who has a suggestion to post it in this thread or send me a PM. We got the original FAQs by covering questions that came up repeatedly in the forums and had answers that would reasonably fit the FAQ format.
Once we do all of the above, we can start deciding what real revisions to make based on the facts and recommendations accumulated during the process.
Feel free to spend as much or as little time on the project as you like. Your time is always your own and whatever you can do to help out is appreciated. 🙂
***Since this is a work thread where we need to keep organized in order to be effective, I'm asking that all posts here be on topic, project related stuff. Please post other conversation in the "Volunteers needed" thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=652551 ***
The first thing we need to do is to look for dead links and links that no longer go to their intended target. For example, there may be some pages from the ACPE website that now direct to their main website rather than the specific pages that they used to.
There are 31 posts in the FAQ. Let's just go post by post and work through it. When you sit down to do a post or set of posts, please make a post saying "I'm working on posts # through whatever". As you finish each post, please make a post saying "post # has no bad links" or "in post #" these links need to be fixed. Don't worry about finding new links. We can take care of that part later.
Once we find any dead links, let's go through and verify the accuracy of content. What especially needs to be reviewed is the lists of schools offering different types of programs. For example, I got a PM last week saying that Duquesne no longer offers a 0-6 program. If we can still search the ACPE website by program type, that will be the easiest way to update the list.
The third thing we can do is to look at each post and see if we could expand the section to be more helpful. That could mean putting information directly in a post instead of posting a link to the information (making dead links less problematic in the future) or adding content that doesn't already exist.
The other thing that we can do is to brainstorm new, helpful sections to add to the FAQ. We can really do that throughout the process. I encourage anyone who is just browsing this thread who has a suggestion to post it in this thread or send me a PM. We got the original FAQs by covering questions that came up repeatedly in the forums and had answers that would reasonably fit the FAQ format.
Once we do all of the above, we can start deciding what real revisions to make based on the facts and recommendations accumulated during the process.
Feel free to spend as much or as little time on the project as you like. Your time is always your own and whatever you can do to help out is appreciated. 🙂
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