Controlled revision · 2026-10-20
Public metadata and editorial policy changes
Metadata schema 1.1; editorial policy revision 1.2. Reader and metadata projection change; no article publication, source re-verification, independent validation or authority transfer.
Changes
- Sequential numbers for distinct linked news source records; evidence gaps and regional assessment excluded
- Separate primary, supporting, archive, related and upstream editorial roles without inferring independent corroboration
- Shared news evidence summary and eligible reading modes in public metadata and article JSON-LD
- English, Simplified Chinese and eligible eight-section comparison modes
- Contextual institutional reading paths separate from actual search counts
- Publication-edition footer links and separately labelled EMJ.LIFE related institution
- Published visible article versions only in article JSON-LD
Preserved records and boundaries
- Stored article bodies, canonical URLs, publication and update dates, source lineage and version history
- Regional EIA/EIS 15-source gate and global analytical terminology
- Daily audits, nine-source contract, cutoffs, schedule and human-review boundaries
- Third-party rights, publisher identities and source attribution
- Other sites and Cloudflare configuration
18 October 2026 change record
Metadata schema 1.0; policy 1.1. Metadata projection revision, not article republication, legal determination, external validation or source re-verification.
- Current-format and historical-format separation
- Daily human review versus explicitly authorised exact-content series release
- Local unresolved editorial boundary assessment contract
- Live published-only metadata queries and bounded CSV pages
- Source profiles preserving attributed document uses
- Existing regional filters and desk pagination
- Machine schema and field guide
Original base: production 89, commit 6994645006fe8ef21ccb0927d906f3de0777778b. The base commit preserves the complete prior policy and code. The former Editorial Policy was dated 2026-09-17 and did not distinguish daily and series release paths.
Prior version
Production version 92, source commit d93a31f06829424ccfa4b5ae454312eb3e3edccf. The full prior policy and reader are retained in production base commit d93a31f06829424ccfa4b5ae454312eb3e3edccf. The 18 October change record remains separately available. Concurrent daily-source recovery changes are preserved unchanged.