Editorial review consists of fixing typos and spelling, grammar, usage, or textual errors in an article. Not all contributors are language experts, but due to their knowledge have contributed extremely useful articles, which need copy-editing and proof-reading; this is done in the editorial review.
This article describes how to go about performing an editorial review, thereby helping to ensure that MDN's content is accurate.
- What is the task?
- Copy-editing and proof-reading of articles that are marked as requiring an editorial review.
- Where does it need to be done?
- Within specific articles that are marked as requiring an editorial review.
- What do you need to know to do the task?
- You need to have good English grammar and spelling skills.
- What are the steps to do it?
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- Pick an article to review:
- Go to the list of articles needing editorial review. This lists all the pages for which an editorial review has been requested.
- Choose a page that has an English title and whose path doesn't start with
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. - Click on the article link to load the page.
- Read the article, paying close attention for typos and spelling, grammar, or usage errors. Don't hesitate to switch to a different page if the first one you choose doesn't suit you.
- If there are no errors, you don't need to edit the article to mark it as reviewed. Look for the "quick review" box in the left sidebar of the page:
Select the Editorial box, and click Review Completed. - If you find errors that need to be corrected:
- click the Edit button near the top of the page; this puts you into the MDN editor.
- Correct all typos and spelling, grammar, or usage errors you see.
- Enter a Revision Comment at the bottom of the article; something like 'Editorial review: fixed typos, grammar & spelling.'
- Unselect the Editorial box under Review Needed?.
- Click the Save Changes button.
For performance reasons, your edits may not appear on the page right away.
- Pick an article to review: