Three findings, one thread: rule 4 says verify a URL before shipping it, and the
check I wrote for it yesterday was measuring one file.
1. THE TABLES PAGE WAS SHIPPING DEAD FORM. people-group-resources.json — the
"Resources by People Group" tab, which a reader clicks — carried 2,294 URL cells, of
which 1,412 were jesusfilm.org/watch/?languageId=<id>. That form is IGNORED by the
site: a real id and a bogus one render the same generic library page, which is why
the map migrated onto Arclight shareUrls. The migration never reached this table, so
the booleans beside those links were being refreshed while the links themselves went
stale for a year of builds. 1,417 film and 882 scripture URLs re-derived from the
index, which is authoritative for both and whose URLs are the verified ones.
2. TWO ARCLIGHT LANGUAGES, ONE ISO CODE — resolved, with evidence rather than a
ruling. jos was SKIPPED here, and the note said resolving it meant deciding whether
the code or the publisher's name was authoritative, "a data question for someone who
can check it". Checked: media-languages?iso3=jos returns 7138 "Jordanian Sign
Language" and 139080 "Lebanese Sign Language", and 7138's shareUrl redirects to
.../jordanian-sign-language.html while a bogus arc.gt code 404s. So the code stays
authoritative for the join and the NAME breaks the tie the code cannot. The old note
also had a fact wrong — it called Lebanese "a different language (lbs)", but lbs is
LIBYAN Sign Language and Lebanese has no code of its own, so this is two Levantine
varieties sharing one code, not a mis-filing. Three Deaf groups now reach the JESUS
Film in their own sign language through a link that resolves; 0 retired-form links
remain in the index.
3. THE GATE'S SCOPE WAS THE BUG. It walked the pin index alone, which is how item 1
hid from it. It now reads every table the SURFACES read, taken from the surfaces, and
resolves each URL against four records: the verification table, the org contacts, the
SUN pages (proved by content against a catch-all control) and doxa.life's own listing
for prayer pages, which cannot be proved by fetch because pray.doxa.life answers 200
for any slug. Provenance fields are excluded by path — a citation is not an offer.
8,445 links measured yesterday; 12,292 shipped links today, 0 unrecorded, 0 broken,
0 that no status code can prove.
Reading every STAGED file instead reported 6,115 unrecorded and 53 broken, all of
them correct behaviour: API endpoints in source fields, and build caches that still
hold the 53 share URLs the verifier proved dead — which is exactly why the pin
builder drops them. A gate that goes red on correct behaviour gets switched off.
"Verify a URL resolves before shipping it" had a verifier and a record, and nothing
asserting the record covers what the build actually ships — so the coverage number
was something a person went and measured, and I measured it earlier this flight as
"8,445 distinct URLs, 100% covered". That was 16 links short, and short for the
reason this bundle keeps relearning: I walked a LIST OF FIELDS.
This check recurses the pin index and treats any http string as a shipped link. It
found 8,461, and the 16 extra were real: the 15 translator-organisation homepages
and the SUN block's three pages, none of which the verification table has ever heard
of. They are not exempt — they are verified in their OWN records, by the scripts that
added them, and the check resolves against all three. SUN's evidence is the stronger
kind: sun.bible answers 200 for any path, so its pages are proved by content against
a catch-all control that returns 904 characters where the New Testament returns
22,043.
Two more things the run corrected rather than confirmed. The status-blind exemption
is a URL SHAPE, not a host: jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus/<slug> does discriminate and
2,049 film links were migrated onto it for exactly that reason, so exempting the host
would have re-blinded all of them — only the older /watch/?languageId= form is blind,
and one such URL remains. And the poison arms now derive their failures from real
entries instead of a synthetic push, because an arm that manufactures its own failure
proves the assertion runs, not that it can catch anything.
