This requirement has you acting as volunteer digital editor for a real online journal: The Mailer Review. As a cohort of editors, we will be responsible for remediating the entirety of two (or more) print issues of the Review to a digital format on Project Mailer, a MediaWiki platform.
Remediating, the refashioning an older form to a newer, from print to digital requires a set of detail-oriented skills. These skills also depend on the platform. In completing this project, you will learn integral formatting skills for MediaWiki, the software used by Wikipedia, by helping to remediate paper articles to the online version of the academic periodical of the Norman Mailer Society.
As assistant digital editors, you will be responsible for completing the remediation of volume 4 and volume 5 of the Review from print to digital form. We may find that some of our work is already complete, and/or we will need to also include articles from another volume to be sure all editors have something to remediate.
The first half of the semester will have our lessons competing this task, step-by-step, to be sure each text is remediated perfectly. You will learn basic editing techniques for MediaWiki that will be applicable to your later work on Wikipedia. Since this is a real scholarly journal, our job is to make its remediation flawless—maybe even better than the print version.
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