The Mailer Review/Volunteer/Remediating Articles: Difference between revisions

{{Byline|last=Lucas|first=Gerald R.|abstract=A digital editor’s guide for remediating print articles to digital for ''{{MR}}''.}}

First off, you need to request an account. If you have a particular user name in mind, let me know. Mine is '''Grlucas''', but yours can be anything you’d like. I will create an account for you with a temporary password using the email address you sent the request with. You will need to confirm your account, log in, and change your password. Then, you’re ready to edit. You might take a few minutes to created your user page by clicking your user name in the upper right, and adding a brief professional biography. If you are a student, this will likely be a requirement at some point.

Begin your journey by requesting an article from the editor. If you have no preference, just send an email to '''{{nospam|editor|projectmailer.net}}''' and ask for the next article, or request a red link article (meaning it needs to be added) from any [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|volume available]], being sure to give the volume number.{{efn|If you are editing as part of a class assignment, you likely will be assigned an article. Please see your syllabus for alternate directions.}} I will send you the article as a PDF from the above email address (be sure you whitelist it or check your spam folder if you do not receive it), including an abstract (if it has one) and writer biography.{{efn|PDF is how I get the final digital form of the journal, which is made for print, so it always contains digital errors. Part of our job is to be sure we catch and correct these errors.}}

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For an explanation of all the variables, see <code>{{tl|byline}}</code>.

The rest of the steps below could (should?) happen in your sandbox. This is a space where you can remediate (make edits and errors) without publishing to the main space. This way, you avoid unwanted attention until you are ready to transfer your article to it proper place. You can access your personal sandbox by clicking “Sandbox” on the top-right of this (and every) page.

Here is where you remediate from PDF (essentially the printed page) to the wiki. Adding the body of the article will take the most effort and attention to detail, as many typos are introduced into the digital text as part of the PDF creation process. I recommend proceeding paragraph by paragraph.

<code><nowiki>* {{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |location= |publisher= |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</nowiki></code><br />

<code><nowiki>This novella was first published in ''New Short Novels 2'', 1956.{{sfn|Lennon|2018|p=25}}</nowiki></code>

This is a Wikipedia template. “Sfn” calls the template in the code; the author’s last name follows the first pipe (this must correspond with the name that follows <code><nowiki>|last=</nowiki></code> in the detailed citation in your works cited list); the year of the publication follows the next (exactly the same as <code><nowiki>|date=</nowiki></code> in the citation); and the page number(s) are put last. This will insert a footnote in the text; when a user clicks it, she is taken to the citation and if she clicks the citation, she is taken to the longer works cited entry. Notice its placement in the text: right up against the period with no space in between. Footnote indications should always come after punctuation; never before. Try it on the example article I linked above. Simple and elegant.