NMAC 3108/Fall 2020/Requirements/Digital Remediation

Introduction	Requirements	Policies	Lessons	Instructor

Daily Work	Digital Remediation	Article Creation

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 translating the entirety of a print issue of the Review to a digital format on Project Mailer, a MediaWiki platform.

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• Editing Basics
• Translating Articles
• The Mailer Review, Volume 2, 2008

Translating from print to digital requires a set of detail-oriented skills. These skills also depend on the platform. We will learn integral formatting skills for MediaWiki by helping to translate paper articles to the online version of the academic periodical of the Norman Mailer Society.

As a class, we will be responsible for completing the translation of the entire issue of The Mailer Review volume 2 from 2008 from print to digital form. Some of it is done, so we have about sixteen articles, three book reviews, three creative works, and a bibliography.

The first half of the semester will have our lessons competing this task, step-by-step, to be sure each text is translated perfectly. You will learn basic editing techniques for MediaWiki that will be applicable to your later work on Wikipedia. Since this is a real journal, our job is to make its translation flawless—maybe even better than the print version.

🕒 07-30-2020

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