editing

(noun)

The process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audio, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete work.

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Examples of editing in the following topics:

  • Authoring Platform

    • Boundless makes it easy to write, edit, and track the progressive changes made to a given content module.
    • Our editing and authoring interface is designed so that community members can suggest edits to Boundless content, and to allow educators to add their own content to their customized version of the courseware.
    • You can recommend or suggest edits to any existing content module by clicking the "Edit" button in the right sidebar or one of the "edit" links throughout the page.
    • Once you've submitted your changes, your proposed edit can be viewed and compared to the previous version of the concept.
    • For community contributions, this allows the members of the Boundless Content Team to ensure that the proposed edits are genuine improvements to the content.

  • Choosing a Wiki

    • MediaWiki is the software on which Wikipedia itself runs, and while it is very good at that, its administrative facilities are tuned to the needs of a site unlike any other wiki on the Net — and actually not so well-tuned to the needs of smaller editing communities.
    • Many projects are tempted to choose MediaWiki because they think it will be easier for users who already know its editing syntax from having edited at Wikipedia, but this turns out to be an almost non-existent advantage for several reasons.
    • First, wikis in general, including Wikipedia, are tending toward rich-text in-browser editing anyway, so that no one really needs to learn the underlying wiki syntax unless they aim to be a power user.
    • Third, for those who will use a plaintext syntax instead of rich-text editing, it's better to use a standardized generic markup format like Markdown (daringfireball.net/projects/markdown), which is available in many wikis either natively or via a plugin, than to use a wiki syntax of any flavor.
    • If you support Markdown, then people can edit in your wiki using the same markup syntax they already know from GitHub and other popular tools.

  • Using Impartial Language

    • After editing: The facility should be reconstructed because it is not accessible for individuals who use wheelchairs.
    • Before editing: The instructor should consider the needs of his students when developing the syllabus.
    • After editing: Instructors should consider the needs of their students when developing the syllabus.
    • Before editing: In clinical studies, the drug was less effective in Oriental and other Non-White women.
    • After editing: In clinical studies, the drug was less effective in Asian, Hispanic, and African American women.

  • Wikis and Spam

    • Never allow open, anonymous editing on your wiki.
    • All edits in your project's wiki must come from registered users; if your wiki software doesn't already enforce this by default, then configure it to enforce that.
    • Even then you may need to keep watch for spam edits from users who registered under false pretences for the purpose of spamming.

  • Introduction to Wikis

    • When open source software project wikis go bad, they usually go bad for the same reasons: lack of consistent organization and editing, leading to a mess of outdated and redundant pages, and lack of clarity on who the target audience is for a given page or section.
    • That's not how collaborative editing works.
    • There is extensive documentation on how to write new entries, how to maintain an appropriate point of view, what sorts of edits to make, what edits to avoid, a dispute resolution process for contested edits (involving several stages, including eventual arbitration), and so forth.
    • They also have authorization controls, so that if a page is the target of repeated inappropriate edits, they can lock it down until the problem is resolved.

  • One-Time Contributions and Feedback

    • Anyone can suggest edits to or leave feedback on Boundless content, which means our content is dynamic and continuously improving.
    • Anyone can make useful small edits to grammar, punctuation, or formatting.

  • Author Acknowledgements

    • For this second edition, we appreciate the tremendous feedback from De Anza College colleagues and students, as well as from the dozens of faculty around the world who taught out of the first and preliminary editions.
    • We thank the following people for their contributions to the first and/or second editions.
    • Inna Grushko (deceased), who wrote the glossary; Diane Mathios, who checked every homework problem in the first edition; Kathy Plum, Lenore Desilets, Charles Klein, Janice Hector, Frank Snow, Dr.

  • Building Community

    • Anyone can become a Boundless contributor, simply by submitting edits or feedback on a given concept.
    • All edits are reviewed by the Boundless team and our subject-matter experts before going live on our site.

  • Preface

    • Most of the notes were written during my first reinvention of the course, calling it "Fundamentals of Astrophysics" instead of the former "Non-Stellar Astrophysics. " The current edition is my second reinvention of the course corresponding to my second stint at teaching it.
    • Whereas "Fundamentals of Astrophysics" sounds more impressive, it actually does not mean much in particular, except giving the connotation that the course is going to be difficult; consequently, in the interest of giving this broad and challenging subject some context, this edition will attempt to focus on a particular object — the Crab Nebula.

  • Television News

    • Packages will usually be filmed at a relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom.
    • They may also be edited in mobile editing trucks, or satellite trucks, and transmitted back to the newsroom.