The legacy reconciler reported "nothing to change" and was confidently
wrong: its hasAny predicate never learned the two newest pools, so 122
curated rows — 8.9 million people — still carried heart_has_any=false
for groups the pin index can now reach. A reconciler that cannot see a
source is not reconciling, it is confirming.
Corrected exactly the 122 predicted, and the derived columns moved
with them: status 122, opportunity 93, lbc_carries_resource 69,
aligned 59, gap 29. Gap moves least because it means "nothing in the
heart language AND no in-country bridge either" — most of these have a
bridge, so they were already opportunities rather than gaps, and that
documented meaning is intact.
This was the fifth occurrence of one bug, and the gate written for it
had never looked at scripts — only .vue. Extending it to the build
scripts immediately found a sixth, in the Deaf gap table, which is
latent today because no sign language carries either field: GRN is
deliberately skipped for them and Scripture Earth has none. Fixed
while it is still cheap.
The rule now differs by file because the truth does: a surface must
READ the tier, while a build script COMPUTES it and cannot, so a
script must instead name every pool. Both halves verified against the
real pre-fix lines rather than synthetic ones.
The country sheet split a country's groups into "with resources" and
"no resource found" using its own hand-listed field set, which never
learned about Scripture Earth or GRN. Measured: 729 people groups —
77.9 million people — were filed under "no resource found" while this
same map's pin sheet offered them a working link. Chad alone had 107
groups with something and showed fewer.
It now reads the tier the pin index computed, carried onto the mapped
row. Chad reports 150 groups, 107 with a resource, 43 without, which
is what the tier says.
This is the FOURTH time this bundle has re-derived that decision
somewhere, and the gate written for it missed this one: the gate
looked for negated c.* fields on a line naming "none", and this was a
positive predicate named hasAny over the mapped row.
Widening it took three attempts and the first two were worse than the
bug. "Three OR-ed resource fields" flags canHear(), which ORs media
precisely because it must exclude text. "Spans text and media" flags
`!!c.s || !!(c.au && /text/…)`, because c.au is text or audio
depending on a qualifier and a `|| ''` default inflates the operator
count. Both were confident false findings — the failure this repo has
now met in a forced token, a swallowed flag and a class extractor, and
a gate that cries wolf gets switched off.
So it asks one question it can actually answer: a predicate NAMED for
"has anything" is deciding the tier by definition and must read it.
Verified against the real pre-fix line, not a synthetic one.
GRN records the gospel as AUDIO for languages with no writing, which is
most of what is left in the gap — and every earlier attempt recorded it
as unreachable. globalrecordings.net sits behind a proof-of-work bot
shield that challenges even robots.txt; that is an access control and
is not worked around. Their own delivery site, 5fish.org, is not
shielded, allows what this reads, and resolves by ISO 639-3 directly.
First 180 gap codes swept: 74 hold gospel audio, a 41% hit rate, and
147 people groups that had nothing now have the gospel in a form they
can receive. Tier 0 falls 2,873 to 2,746.
The host NEVER 404s. A nonsense path returns HTTP 200 and a plausible
geo-located page, so reading 200 as existence would have marked every
code on earth as covered. Existence is read from the page title, and a
negative and a positive control run in band on every run — the fetcher
aborts if a nonsense code ever reads as a real language. Their
robots.txt asks for a ten-second crawl delay, so the sweep is
sequential, capped per run and resumable. Do not add concurrency.
Three sign languages are deliberately left out. GRN's catalogue is
audio; 5fish holding a page titled "Pakistan Sign Language" says they
index the language, not that they have signed video. Attaching it told
20 Deaf groups — 11.5 million people — that gospel audio was available
to them. Unverified, and for that audience useless.
Six places across three surfaces still told the reader GRN answers 403
to everything and had never been searched. That is now false, and a
stale caveat misleads exactly as much as a stale number.
Also here, because adding a source is what exposed it: the charts
profile decided "this group has nothing" a second time, by listing the
resource fields by hand. That list went stale every time a source was
added — 7 languages once, 23 when Scripture Earth landed — so the chart
drew groups as having nothing while the map offered them a working
link. It now reads the tier the pin index already computed, and a new
gate refuses any surface that re-derives it. The gate was checked
against the real pre-fix file, not only a synthetic one.
