EI-3.3 — PUBLISH Migration

Completed: 2026-08-08

Scope

EI-3.3 implements the 16 EI-1.5 PUBLISH records. All 16 are issues of The Loudmouth and were already represented in production. This sprint therefore performs conservation/normalization rather than editorial rewriting.

Completed work

• Reconciled all 16 PUBLISH records against docs/editorial-manifest.yml.
• Preserved the authoritative historical publication dates and canonical permalinks.
• Added the EI-3.2 content model to every issue:
  • subject: Computing History
  • content_type: collection
  • collection: The Loudmouth
  • historical: true
• Retained the legacy The Loudmouth category temporarily for Jekyll compatibility.
• Standardized issue titles to The Loudmouth — Vol. X, No. Y.
• Moved gallery construction to _includes/loudmouth-gallery.html.
• Replaced WordPress attachment-page links, synthetic srcset values, and Jetpack-era gallery attributes with direct links to controlled local scans.
• Added loading="lazy" and decoding="async" to issue images through the shared gallery include.
• Normalized displayed page order numerically while preserving the underlying scan filenames.
• Updated the collection landing page to select issues by explicit collection metadata rather than treating the WordPress category as the permanent content model.

Historical-date reconciliation

Vol. 1, No. 1 is authoritative as September 13, 1985. Its repository filename remains _posts/1985-09-15-the-loudmouth-vol-1-no-1.md, a harmless legacy filename inherited from the WordPress import. Jekyll uses the explicit front-matter date and permalink, so renaming the file would provide no public benefit and could create unnecessary churn. The production date remains September 13, 1985.

Vol. 1, No. 7 recovery

Final media validation found that the legacy Vol. 1, No. 7 page pointed to files named LM0108_*, which are Vol. 1, No. 8 scans. Those incorrect references were removed.

The correct No. 7 archival masters were positively identified in the scoped Google Drive HS Loudmouth Scans corpus as 4040_001.jpg through 4040_004.jpg. The issue itself identifies Friday, November 8, 1985 and No. 1.7. Each master scan contains a two-page spread; the four masters were split into eight production pages and restored locally as:

• LM0107_01c.jpg
• LM0107_02c.jpg
• LM0107_03c.jpg
• LM0107_04c.jpg
• LM0107_05c.jpg
• LM0107_06c.jpg
• LM0107_07c.jpg
• LM0107_08c.jpg

The restored production gallery was committed in efd5de71ac5fbdefa470775ce325cd6328c06c78.

Media boundary

All 16 production galleries reference only local files under images/loudmouth/, consistent with EI-2. Google Drive remains the archival/master corpus and is not hotlinked. No DELETE-associated media was introduced by this sprint.

Editorial boundary

Historical prose and period voice were not rewritten. Changes are limited to metadata, gallery delivery, punctuation/format consistency, removal of obsolete WordPress presentation dependencies, and correction/restoration of the Vol. 1, No. 7 gallery.

Result

All 16 PUBLISH records are now normalized first-class historical collection items under the EI-3 content model, and all 16 have verified production scan galleries.

The next sprint is EI-3.4 — REWRITE & Flagship Promotion.