A pin's position is generalised, so it does not tell a reader the locality or where a group is
centred.
- pins.sharedPoint in all 11 locales and ApproxPinNote.vue's fallback: the groups sharing the point
are named and counted ("{n} groups share this dot"); the locality claim is gone.
- keyCities map.note, map.sheetNote and list.caveat.row in all 11 locales: a cluster is of
people-group pins, not centroids, and each pin marks a people group, not a town.
- The key-cities and languages-per-city caveats in build-tabulator-tables.mjs and in every committed
copy of those two tables (only that one field changes), derive-city-candidates.mjs's caveat, and
the matching comments in key-cities, name-clusters and the poster generator.
- check-approx-pin-note's pass line no longer calls pins localities. Two UI-strings baseline entries
whose strings no longer exist in their files are dropped.
Locations are generalised, so a dot's position is not a claim about where a people group lives.
The pin notes now say only what is certain: a dot marks a people group, not a town or a boundary,
and its position is approximate.
- pins.approximate in all 11 locales, and ApproxPinNote.vue's fallback and header.
- gospelInternet notice.pin / notice.pins / notice.standing / facet.provinceNote in all 11 locales,
their T() fallbacks (GiDrawer, GiMap, GiFacetRail, board) and the README line. notice.pin no longer
takes {country}. The shared-point and internet-figure clauses are unchanged.
- gospel-resources: the province sheet's English sentence, and the `approximate` notes that
build-gospel-by-province.mjs writes into the shipped tables. Both tables and gospel-internet.json
are regenerated: only those notes and the generated dates change, every row is identical.
- Comments and the embed README say the same. The UI-strings baseline follows the new sentence.
The case-insensitive census with every plugin agent's name found 30 more lines: library (ProfileLoader,
useMapProvider, ApproxPinNote, listSelection, colocation), the gallery's embed-contract card id, the gospel
plugins' source notes and build scripts, a regions script note and one gate description. Comments and notes
only, except the Gospel x Internet CSV export's provenance line, which no longer names who screened the links.
check:approx-pin-note server-renders ApproxPinNote in Node, and it crashed: with no locale argument
and no runtime locale, formatList fell through to detectLocale(), which reads `document`. The page
lookup is now a guarded last resort. ApproxPinNote also passes its sentence's own locale (the
host's vue-i18n when installed, else '' so the runtime/page chain applies), so a host with its own
i18n can never get an Arabic sentence with a list in another language.
The gate now expects the new English ("Koraga and Maila", the list grammar this change exists for)
and adds the Arabic case: two names joined with و, never an English comma inside Arabic prose.
Poisoned by putting join(', ') back, both of those cases fail; restored, it passes.
ApproxPinNote built pins.sharedPoint's {names} with join(', '), so the Arabic sentence carried English commas between the group names: the case gospel measured. It now uses formatList, which joins by the locale's own grammar (ar 'A وB وC', zh 'A、B和C', en 'A, B, and C').
The five are NOT one shape, and treating them as one would have changed what
readers see. Measured before touching them:
ApproxPinNote, FilterDropdown fall back to a literal map
SemanticTreeLegend, PosterWall fall back to humanizeKey() — 'legend.columns.name' renders 'Name'
PinHint falls back to a one-key map
SemanticTreeLegend, PinHint also capture i18n.te (used 3x and 1x)
PosterWall also captures i18n.locale
So useOptionalT grew an optional `fallback` hook, and useOptionalI18n was added
for the callers that need te and locale. Every site passes the fallback it
already had, so not one rendered string changes. Routing them through the
catalogue instead would have altered what seven bare-host bundles print, and —
because tStatic honours the runtime locale — would have started translating
strings that are English today. That may be an improvement; it is not this
commit's to make. Changing a default is not a migration.
te keeps its existing contract too: FALSE on a bare host, never "true because the
catalogue has it". PinHint and SemanticTreeLegend both record why — te is how
their callers know to use their own defaults.
THE CHECK NOW LIVES ON MAIN, which is the point of this commit as much as the
migration is. dx-shepherd: the 18-assertion version was in _qa-cycle, so it would
never have run again. internal/check-optional-t-equivalence.mjs is registered as
check:optional-t-equivalence — script line, //scripts note and gates:post token,
all inserted by hand rather than by re-serialising package.json. It carries 46
assertions: the helper's contract across all three host states, a branch-for-
branch equivalence against the old hand-written code, and a PER-SITE REGISTER
that every later C4 wave appends a row to. Negative-tested from outside: strip one
site's own fallback and it fails naming that site.
check:library-index went red on the new composable and is green again after
`bun run library-index`. That is the staleness gate working, not a flake.
It called useI18n() unguarded at setup. On an embeddable leaf whose host never installed vue-i18n that
throws inside the custom-element boundary and leaves an empty shadow root: the FilterDropdown failure
that blanked people-groups-grid. It now guards the call the way PinHint does, and falls back to the
English pins.* wording with the same {names}/{n} placeholders filled. Reported by gospel-plugin.
A people-group pin is a representative point, not an address, and some pins ARE the same point: on the
Doxa roster 2,107 groups sit on 2,048 coordinates, 108 of them on a point shared with another (gospel-
plugin's measurement). Every map with people-group pins must say so, in one wording.
- library/components/legends/ApproxPinNote.vue: "The dot marks where this people is found, not a town or a
boundary." always; when the selected pin's point is shared, "It sits on the same point as <names> — <n>
groups share this coordinate…". Never prints the raw coordinate. Wording: gospel-plugin's P5 proposal,
in a new pins catalogue (11 locales).
- library/utils/colocation.js: the co-location index, built from the roster THE MAP draws (rows or
GeoJSON features), never a hardcoded count.
- LegendDesktop and LegendMobile (research map, simple map, country posters, cities, UPG-100) show the
note under the legend, and under the detail card with the shared names.
- check:approx-pin-note (headless, gates:post): the index, the two sentences, no coordinate, Arabic.
