The sheet names who translated the Scripture, and a team printing posters or
building QR codes exports the CSV and never opens the sheet. A lead that only
exists on screen is a lead that does not reach the people doing the work, so
"Translated by" and the year are columns now: 864 of the 2,107 rows carry a named
body across 33 organisations.
Left empty rather than filled where the catalogue names a licence instead of a
translator. The column says who to ask; "public domain" answers a different
question and would read as an answer to this one.
Two pools were considered and deliberately not attributed. Faith Comes By
Hearing puts the producer inside a free-text version name — "Okpe, Delta - Bible
Society of Nigeria" has it, "Malkus Mawyon" does not — and splitting on the dash
would invent an organisation for the rows that have none; its own API, which
would answer properly, needs credentials this build does not have. Door43's URL
owner IS authoritative but is frequently a catalogue or a language namespace
rather than a body, so "translated by Door43-Catalog" would be false for 116
entries. A name nobody can act on is worse than a blank.
The brief asks for real leads — real translators, the real organisations that do
the work — and the map had only URLs. A mobiliser who finds a neighbouring
language already has Scripture wants to know who produced it, because that
organisation has the linguists, the relationships and very often a team already
in that country. The link answers where; this answers who to ask.
eBible publishes its catalogue with a copyright line on every row and the join is
exact: 964 of the 964 eBible links in this index match a catalogue row by
translation id, none unmatched. 929 resolve to a named body across 137
organisations — Wycliffe Bible Translators, The Word for the World, Biblica,
Pioneer Bible Translators, the Seed Company, World Bible Translation Center. It
shows on the group sheet and on both bridges, where "who do I ask about this
language" is the sharpest question on the page.
NAMES ONLY, NO NEW LINKS. The catalogue also carries each publisher's domain, and
shipping it would put hosts into this map that the doctrine screen has never
seen — the screen is an allowlist precisely so a new publisher cannot arrive as a
side effect of a data refresh. Measured after the change: 16,963 links scanned,
the same count as before, and not one credit contains a URL.
A licence is not a translator. 35 rows reduce to "public domain", which says how
the text may be used and nothing about who made it; answering "who to ask" with a
legal status would be worse than saying nothing, so those are dropped and counted
separately from the rows that have no catalogue entry at all.
Gazan Arabs — 2,315,000 people, the second largest population this map draws —
was painted red as "nothing found" while the index held a Scripture Earth PDF and
a Zume course in South Levantine Arabic, and the access table beside it already
said "read". Because of that stale zero it was also the one group on the map
shown as having nothing AND no way in.
The cause is structural, not a typo. The tier existed only ON A PIN, and `codes`
is keyed from the resource pools while `pins` comes from the people-group
dataset, so a language can be fully researched and carry no pin at all: zero pins
speak ajp. With no tier to read, the map fell back to the roster's stored copy,
captured when that file was written and never refreshed since.
So the tier is computed for every code the index knows and published as `tiers`,
from one definition that also tiers the pins. The map reads it. It does not
re-derive a tier from the resource fields — that is the drift the surfaces gate
exists to stop, and a roster keeping its own copy is the same drift with extra
steps.
The gap is 369, not 370, and not one of them is left without a way in — so the
legend now says "every one of those 369" rather than "369 of those 369", which
read like a coincidence. Both halves still hold: every group has somewhere to
start, and none of them has the gospel in their own language.
Five countries fell back to the weak pins proxy, and Saudi Arabia fell back to
URDU. The reason is a join asking for a code no publisher uses: CLDR reports
Arabic (ara) at 100% of Saudi Arabia, 81% of Oman, 74% of Libya and 100% of
Kuwait, but ara is a MACROLANGUAGE and nothing is published under it — the
Scripture and the film sit under arb. Taiwan had the same shape: zho empty, the
resources under cmn. The five countries this hit are among the least reached on
earth, which is where a wrong bridge costs the most.
Resolved through SIL's own macrolanguage membership, never by name, reusing the
table already read for the related-variety note. Every one of the 1,175
candidates now comes from published language data and none from the proxy; 211
resolve through a macrolanguage.
The share keeps the name it was measured under. CLDR measured Arabic, not
Standard Arabic, so the sheet says Arabic is spoken by 100% of this country and
that Scripture and the JESUS Film are published in Standard Arabic. Claiming the
percentage for the variety would be a figure CLDR never produced.
"Nothing found 370" is where the legend stopped, and it reads as a wall. Every
one of those groups but a single uncoded row now has somewhere to start — a
curated bridge, a language their own country actually speaks, or SUN for a Deaf
group — and none of it was visible without opening 370 pins one at a time.
It says "a possible way in", not "reached". A bridge has to be learnt, it is not
Scripture in their language, and the red dot means exactly what it meant before.
Counted in the same pass as the tier numbers, from the same rows, so the two can
never drift apart.
Also drops a link-pruning pass added earlier in this change and then removed. It
was written on the belief that 74 links recorded broken were still being served;
they are not — the builder has pruned them from the index for some time, and it
reports the count on every run. The measurement that looked alarming was a
verification record listing URLs that had already left the index. Nothing was
wrong, so nothing needed fixing, and a second implementation of a working rule is
worse than none.
The bridge candidate — the "possibly a way in" offered to a group with nothing —
was chosen from Doxa's own pins: the biggest language among the UNREACHED groups
in that country that has Scripture and the film. That is not the language a
community shares with its neighbours. For Syenara Senufo in Mali it proposed
Minianka, one people group. Mali's vehicular language is Bambara.
The number beside it was worse than the pick. "8.8% of this country's mapped
population" is a share of Doxa's unreached pins, and a reader takes a percentage
for a share of the country. A percentage measured against a denominator nobody
can see is not a caveat, it is a wrong number.
CLDR publishes what each territory speaks and by what share, joined to ISO 639-3
through SIL's own Part1 column, and pinned rather than tracked from a moving
branch. 1,161 of 1,175 candidates now come from it; the remaining 14 keep the old
proxy and say on the row that their count is of this map's groups and not of the
country. Mali now reads French at 46% and official.
Where two languages are within five points the map names BOTH and says it will
not choose. Mali is exactly that: French 46% and official, Bambara 46% and not —
one is the administrative language and the other is what people share in a
market, and which bridges better depends on whether you are handing over a
booklet or starting a conversation. A tie-break would have quietly answered a
question nobody asked it. Both carry their own links, for the same reason the
first one does.
Two field lists were a field short, the same shape twice. The candidate filter
and the link resolver both read c.s for "has a readable Scripture" and forgot
that Faith Comes By Hearing carries text on the audio record — which excluded
Bambara from Mali's candidates entirely, and then, once it was named, offered it
the film while a full 66-book text sat one field away. There is now one
predicate.
The RTL gate read a hardcoded tree path. It reads the build config instead, and
was re-run against its baseline before the result was trusted.
SUN reached the access table and the CSV first, and the map — the surface a
mobiliser actually opens — still showed Deaf groups a panel that explained their
situation honestly and then left them with nothing to do. That is the largest
population on this map with nothing: 93 groups, 17.5 million people, and
structurally so, because a spoken bridge cannot reach a Deaf community and there
was no other kind.
Clicking Deaf Beninese now offers the SUN New Testament, the SUN Bible stories
and the language itself, and says that SUN is already being taught in Benin by
Mission Évangélique des Sourds — a named local Deaf church rather than a
resource with nobody attached to it. It is offered only where the group has
nothing, because a group with Scripture in its own sign language does not need
to learn a second one, and it says on its face that it is a bridge which has to
be learnt and closes no gap in their own language.
Carried in the pin index beside the spoken bridges rather than fetched by the
leaf, so the sheet and the access table cannot disagree about what exists. It is
one small object, not a per-language join, because SUN is one signed language
for all of them.
The doctrine scan reads it too. Those URLs live in a new top-level block that the
per-language loop cannot see, so they were added to the scan in the same change
rather than found missing later, the way the access table was.
Of the 369 Doxa groups with nothing in their language, 94 had no bridge either,
and 93 of those were Deaf — 17.5 million people, the largest untouched number on
the map. That was structural, not bad luck: every bridge here is a spoken
language widely used in the same country, and a spoken bridge is worthless to a
Deaf community, so the build correctly refused to offer one and then had nothing
else to say.
SUN is a signed language built to be learnt across sign languages, with the Old
Testament, New Testament and Bible stories in it. It is carried the way a spoken
bridge is — something to learn, no substitute for Scripture in a group's own
sign language — in its own columns, never folded into the access rung, which
stays the honest "nothing found in their language". 28 countries where it is
already being taught come with the named local Deaf church or organisation
doing the teaching, which is the difference between a resource and a lead.
Only URLs verified by their content ship. sun.bible answers 200 for
/sun/<anything> and /resource/<anything>, so a per-language URL built by pattern
would look valid and could be empty; the fetcher re-measures that catch-all on
every run rather than trusting a note. Hosts left out are listed with the reason,
including three that are reachable by a person but not by a script.
Doctrine was checked harder here, not less. The Deaf are the most heavily
targeted group in this dataset by publishers this build must never carry, and
the thinner the pickings the stronger the pull. SUN is Wycliffe Associates'.
Screening the result exposed the bigger hole. The doctrine scan read the pin
index only, and within it skipped the Words of Life and Scripture Earth fields,
so the access table — the one the page renders and the one exported to CSV for
posters and QR codes — was never screened at all. The least supervised links in
the build were the ones most likely to be printed and handed to a stranger.
Scanning both, and both fully, takes the screened count from 6,497 to 16,960.
The gate also now proves the server holds these tables. It adopted a server from
another worktree on the default port and reported PASS on it: all three
manifests are byte-identical, because a manifest describes bundles and the
change was to a data asset it never mentions. A planted excluded-publisher link
went undetected, which is the worst possible failure for this particular check.
dx-shepherd's verifier traced it. Merge 52ab6089 from this worktree committed
public/doxa-maps/gospel-resources/gospel-resources.js with 21 conflict markers —
both sides concatenated, 1.13 MB — and that is what threw "Identifier Ge has
already been declared" and killed every gospel leaf.
My diagnosis last commit was wrong. I blamed a module imported twice and
re-routed the import; that change was harmless but it was not the cause. The
REBUILD that came with it is what repaired the file. A plausible cause that a fix
appears to confirm is the easiest kind of wrong answer to believe.
THE ACTUAL CAUSE IS A LANDING SCRIPT I WROTE. On a conflict it resolves the one
file it expects — public/doxa-maps/index.html — and then runs "git add -A
public", which stages every OTHER file under public/ including the ones still
holding markers. One line of convenience turning a conflict git correctly refused
to guess at into a committed artefact.
So: a check that names the real condition. It scans every tracked file for an
unresolved marker, is built from character codes so it can never trip itself, and
carries a poison arm. It runs FIRST in check:gospel-all, because there is no
point measuring anything else about a tree that is mid-merge.
Also verifies the 8 links the GRN recheck recovered, which check:gospel-all
caught as shipped-but-unverified on its very first run — psi, alk, nos, jle, lma
and three more, all now confirmed landing on their own 5fish language pages.
The table offered 107 groups a next step the map did not show. The candidate is
now computed once, in the pin build beside the curated bridge, and both surfaces
read it — the same rule that put the tier in one place. 1,167 candidates across
the research index; 107 of them reach Doxa groups the curated bridge misses.
The map's sheet renders it as its own weaker panel, and the words carry the
limit: "Possibly a way in — worth checking locally", with the language, how
many groups there speak it and what share of the country they are, and "not
ranked and not recommended". No strength, because none can honestly be
computed. Never for a sign language.
A REGRESSION I INTRODUCED AND ALMOST SHIPPED. The edit that wired this used
pinCandidates without declaring it — a string replace that matched nothing and
said nothing. The ReferenceError died inside the custom-element boundary, so the
map never mounted AND the page reported zero errors. My probe then failed with a
30-second timeout that I had caused separately, by passing playwright's timeout
as the waitForFunction ARG rather than its options, which had been silently
using the default in eleven scripts. Two faults stacked: a broken page that
looked error-free, and a probe too impatient to say so.
Zero page errors is not the same as working, and that is the only reason this
was caught: __grState never appeared, which no assertion about pins could have
explained away. Verified after the fix: 2,107 pins, gap cuts to 370, the
candidate panel renders for Abai Sungai naming Malay, and 25 Deaf sheets still
show no bridge at all.
The curated bridge covers 168 of Doxa's 369 with nothing, because it comes from
a curated subset rather than from the data. A candidate IS computable for the
rest: the largest language in their country carrying both Scripture and the film.
WHAT I COULD NOT COMPUTE, AND THEREFORE DO NOT CLAIM. Ranking those candidates
needs a notion of "is this a lingua franca", and neither available proxy
survives contact. By GROUP COUNT, Oman picks Swahili — two groups — for an
Arabic-speaking people. By SHARE OF PINNED POPULATION, a 10% floor REFUSES Urdu
in Pakistan at 7.3%, the national language, because few Pakistani groups are
pinned as Urdu speakers. That is the same bad-denominator mistake this map
already fixed on the choropleth. So no strength is invented: the candidate ships
with its group count and its share, under column names that say "candidate",
and a reader who knows Pakistan can see Urdu at 7.3% and know what to do with it.
A score would have thrown it away on their behalf.
AND THE ERROR CAUGHT BEFORE SHIPPING. The candidate logic was offering 89 Deaf
groups a SPOKEN language — Deaf Afghans to Turkmen, Deaf Arubans to Dutch. That
is not a weak bridge, it is not a bridge, and a mobiliser acting on it would be
sent to do something that cannot reach the people. This build already refuses to
search GRN for sign languages because GRN publishes audio; the candidate logic
had inherited the gap. Now: 92 Deaf groups are offered none, and their gap is
named as the access problem it is.
Of the 369 with nothing: 168 curated bridge, 107 computed candidate, 92 Deaf,
2 with neither.
The access table could say "nothing found" and stop. For 168 of Doxa's 369
that is not the whole truth: a language already spoken widely in their country
has Scripture and the film. Afitti in Sudan has nothing of their own; Sudanese
Arabic, spoken by 65 groups around them, has both. That is the difference
between no way in and a way in that is not their heart language, and it is the
next action a mobiliser can take — which is why it belongs in the EXPORT and not
only in the map's sheet, where it has been sitting unexportable.
Four columns: the bridge language, its ISO code, the strength, and how many
groups in that country speak it. Keyed by code|country, because the same
language bridges differently in different places.
IT CLOSES NO GAP AND THE DEFINITION SAYS SO. A bridge is a way in, not a
translation. These 168 are still counted in "nothing found", because they still
have nothing in the language they think in, and the first believers among them
still cannot be trained from a text that does not exist.
The other 201 have nothing AND no bridge. That number is worth having on its own:
it is the isolated set, where neither their own language nor anything spoken
around them carries the gospel.
Verified end to end: the CSV exports 2,107 rows carrying Bridge language, Bridge
ISO, Bridge strength and Groups speaking it, and the Afitti row reads Arabic,
Sudanese.
THE RECHECK, reported at its real size. Re-asking all 293 Doxa codes the old
title catch-all had defaulted to "none" recovered EIGHT: the rule was wrong
2.7% of the time, not catastrophically. That moves 12 Doxa people groups out of
the gap — 381 to 369 — and each now carries a working Words of Life link. Modest,
and worth saying plainly rather than dressing up: the bug was real, its blast
radius was small, and the fix is that the classifier measures instead of
defaulting.
THE THREE LINES. rega's in-gallery count was right that these are chrome, not
prose: what a dot is, what "none found" does not mean, and that a country is
tappable. They are what a reader needs to use the map AT ALL, so leaving them
English made it unusable rather than merely untranslated. Translated in all
eleven; the long explanatory paragraphs around them stay English and are pinned
dir=ltr where they sit, which is option (b) unchanged.
The map got coordinates and a language code by matching each group's NAME
against the pin dataset. That left 285 unplaceable and, worse, unsearchable: no
ISO code is no key to look them up by in any pool, so the access table could only
report them as "not searched" — nobody had been able to ask.
Doxa's own per-group endpoint carries both, and their robots.txt disallows
nothing. /api/people-groups/detail/<slug> gives primary_language and latitude and
longitude for every one: Akha to ahk, Akeu to byo, Alxa Mongols to xal, Ajja to
krs — four the name join had failed. So the name matching is not improved, it is
REMOVED. It was always a guess wearing a join's clothes: Akha in Laos sat beside
Akha Jipea, Akha Jaweuy and Akha Piso in the pins, and any pick among them would
have invented a language for a people. The publisher saying which language their
group speaks ends the guessing.
2,107 of 2,107 placed. Zero without a language code. The "not searched" rung is
gone from the access ladder because nothing is unsearched any more.
The gap grows 281 to 381, and that is the point: those 100 groups were always
without the gospel in their language, and the map could not say so because it did
not know what their language was.
The fetcher runs its controls in band both ways before trusting a record — a real
slug must return a language and coordinates, an impossible one must not — so a
site answering 200 with an empty body could not fill this table with silence.
IMB's own access and engagement fields come along beside ours, never merged into
them, because where two sources disagree that disagreement is worth seeing.
The Driver's question, in their words, is which of THEIR people groups have
gospel resources and which do not. Every tab here answered it for the research
corpus — 12,379 groups across 4,231 languages — which is the right scope for
finding what exists and the wrong one for working a list of 2,107. This one is
one row per group on Doxa's roster, it leads the tabs, and it exports.
The access ladder says what a person can DO, because that is what decides what
you send: read and watch 785 · watch or hear but cannot read 698 · read 53 ·
stories only 5 · nothing found 281. The second rung is the translation brief —
those groups can already receive the gospel and cannot yet study it, so the
first believers among them cannot be trained from a text that does not exist.
NO LANGUAGE CODE IS ITS OWN RUNG. The first run collapsed it into "nothing
found" and reported 566, when 281 had been searched and come back empty and 285
had never been searchable at all — no ISO 639-3, so no pool has a key to look
them up by. That would have told a mobiliser 285 peoples have no gospel in their
language when the truth is nobody has been able to ask. It is an identification
problem before it is a translation one.
CSV carries the filter and the roster: the whole table exports 2,107 rows, China
exports 154, and German exports a header and nothing else because German is not
one of Doxa's groups.
383 of the roster had no coordinates — 18% of Doxa's people invisible on the map
and missing from every count on it. Reading why, rather than reaching for fuzzy
matching, one class turns out to be a spelling convention: the roster puts the
qualifier first and the pin dataset puts it last, around a comma.
Acre Arara <-> Arara, Acre Ashkuni Nuristani <-> Nuristani Ashkuni
Banka Samogho <-> Samogho, Banka Butuo Nosu <-> Nosu, Butuo
Same words, same country, different order. Matching on the sorted token set
absorbs exactly that: 94 recovered, plus 4 that only needed diacritics folded,
and every one resolved to a SINGLE pin inside its own country. Spot-checked
against the languages they landed on — Ashkuni Nuristani to Ashkun [ask] in
Afghanistan, Banka Samogho to Bankagooma [bxw] in Mali — and all 94 carry a
language code, so the resource join holds.
What it refuses is the point. Doxa lists Akha in Laos; the pins carry Akha
Jipea, Akha Jaweuy and Akha Piso — a parent against three sub-varieties, and
picking one would invent a language for a people. Doxa lists Akeu in China; the
nearest pin is Ake, a different language. Two candidates is a refusal, not a
coin toss. 285 still have no candidate at all and stay unplaced, because they
need a source this build does not have rather than a looser string match.
1,822 placed now. The gap grows 268 to 281, which is the join telling the truth.
The map was built on the full 12,379-group dataset. Doxa works the groups on
pray.doxa.life, so a map of everyone buries the ones they can reach and paints
countries by a gap that is not theirs.
The roster is now its own table, from their own API: 2,107 groups across 175
countries, 206 million people. 1,724 join a pin by (name, country) and every one
of those carries an ISO 639-3 code, so the resource join is intact. The other 383
are kept with mapped:false rather than dropped — they are Doxa's groups whether
or not this build can place them yet.
The measurement that settles the colour complaint: 106 of those 175 countries
hold one or two Doxa groups, and the United States holds three. The choropleth
paints a country by the SHARE of its groups with nothing found, so one group of
three turns the whole United States amber. That is the mainly-yellow map, and
underneath it is not a palette problem — it is a percentage over a denominator
of three being drawn as though it meant something. A share is only meaningful in
the 35 countries holding eight or more.
Nothing is lost: every index, verified link and sweep result stays where it is.
Five codes still carried the retired ?languageId= URL, which nothing can verify.
Asking Arclight what each language actually has:
ars Arabic, Najdi The Savior (8 groups; film was their ONLY resource)
gjk Kachi Koli Magdalena - Director's Cut
mzn Mazanderani Magdalena - Director's Cut
lia Limba, West-Central no feature at all
jos Jordanian Sign Lang left alone, see below
counts.featureFilm >= 1 says a feature exists, not that it is JESUS. Three of
these had a real JESUS Film Project film in their own language under a different
title, and the map called all of them the JESUS Film — the same class of lie as
calling Open Bible Stories Scripture. They now ship under their own names, with
verified deep links; lia's film is dropped, because no component carries it and
a link nobody can check is worse than none.
jos is left exactly as it was. Arclight files iso3 jos under a row whose own
name reads Lebanese Sign Language, while the JESUS Film sits at a different id
named Jordanian Sign Language. The ISO join and the publisher's label disagree,
and resolving that is a data question, not a guess to make inside a fetcher.
The two curated figures — growing & unreached, deaths a day — sit under a
footnote saying how much narrower their basis is than the pins. It read "covers
391 of these 391 groups — a narrower set than the pins" for every one of the 242
countries, because the script that recomputes country rows from the pins
overwrote the curated group count with the pin count and the footnote went on
reading it. Always false, and false about the one thing it existed to qualify.
The real numbers were still in the commit that introduced the overwrite and are
restored on the rows: China 158 of 391, India 856 of 2,146. They are recorded
once now and never rewritten, because the pins change every build and a curated
analysis does not.
The same block also drew both figures for the 72 countries that have no curated
row at all — "Est. deaths/day 0", which is not a measurement. It is hidden for
them instead. A first pass at the fix handed those 72 a basis equal to their pin
count, inventing the number the footnote exists to qualify; null now means there
is no curated set here.
The rot sampler now covers 5fish by where its redirect LANDS — a published code
goes to its numbered language page, one they do not carry is swept to /regions —
the same rule the verifier uses, with both arms proved in band. Six links a run,
ten seconds apart, because their robots.txt asks for it. That leaves 94 of 8,510
shipped links outside every re-check, down from 5,760 this morning.
YouVersion is the largest catalogue the brief names and it is now recorded as
rejected, with the measurement: nodejs.bible.com serves it without a key but its
robots.txt is Disallow: / , www.bible.com answers even robots.txt with a bot
wall, and the unauthenticated slice returns 2 English versions against the dozens
that exist — so taking it would be both discourteous and wrong. It is named in
the unchecked list on 5,413 codes instead of being silently absent, because a
reader deciding that a group has nothing is entitled to know which pools nobody
searched.
Batch fourteen closed it — 2,347 language codes decided, 1,022 carrying Words
of Life. Forty groups leave the gap: 1,653 with nothing becomes 1,613, and the
gap breakdown drops from four situations to three, because "GRN not yet swept"
no longer describes anybody. What is left is 1,429 groups where every pool this
build can reach has been searched, 183 sign languages behind key-gated sources,
and one group with no language code at all.
Two things the sweep exposed. 5fish answers 200 for any path, so its 982 links
were being verified by a status that means nothing there; they are now judged by
where the redirect LANDS — a real code goes to its numbered language page, one
they do not carry is swept to /regions — with both arms proved in band before
any link is classified. And country-gap reads a file that another script
refreshes from the pins, so running them out of order publishes the previous
build's numbers: it said 1,653 while the map said 1,613. It now refuses to write
a table that disagrees with the index the map draws.
170 more codes, 57 with gospel audio. 979 codes carry a Words of Life
link and 1,220 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is that
recording — 79.4 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language. Tier 0 is 1,653, from 3,457 when this began.
2,215 of the gap's 2,456 codes are decided. The "not yet swept" bucket
is down to 133 groups, so one more batch ends it, and the breakdown
will then read three situations rather than four — which the sheet was
taught to handle last tick, before it could print "0 groups still
unswept" beside a claim that four situations remained.
Provenance exact: 2,079 name GRN as checked, 2,079 decided, none
decided goes unnamed. All 57 new URLs verified before shipping.
170 more codes, 52 with gospel audio — 31%, against 43% over the first
nine batches. The sweep runs largest-population first, so the tail is
the small and rare languages where GRN is least likely to have
reached; the falling rate is the sweep working through the hard part.
922 codes carry a Words of Life link and 1,158 people groups whose
ONLY resource in any pool is that recording — 79.4 million people —
can hear the gospel in their own language. Tier 0 is 1,715, from 3,457
when this began. 2,045 of the gap's 2,456 codes are decided, 83%.
The shape keeps telling the same story: "GRN not yet swept" has fallen
842 → 660 → 484 → 311, while the real translation gap has risen 887 →
1,220. Groups are not getting worse off; they are moving from a bucket
that meant "we have not looked" into one that means "we looked
everywhere we can reach". That is the number a translator should plan
against, and it only became sayable once the two were separated.
Provenance exact: 1,910 name GRN as checked, 1,910 decided, none
decided goes unnamed. All 52 new URLs verified before shipping.
170 more codes, 73 with gospel audio. 870 codes carry a Words of Life
link and 1,104 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is that
recording — 79.3 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language.
Tier 0 is 1,769, from 3,457 when this began. 1,876 of the gap's 2,456
codes are decided, 76% of the sweep, and the "GRN not yet swept"
bucket has fallen from 842 groups to 484: that share of the gap is
evaporating as the crawl proceeds rather than because anything was
translated, which is why the sheet names it separately.
The real translation gap barely moves by comparison — 1,001 to 1,101
— because groups leaving the unswept bucket mostly land there. That is
the honest shape of this work: the sweep is not shrinking the gap so
much as telling the truth about which part of it is real.
Provenance exact: 1,744 name GRN as checked, 1,744 decided, none
decided goes unnamed. All 73 new URLs verified before shipping.
The map explains that "1,845 groups have nothing" is four situations
wearing one number. An exported copy of the gap table could not say
that at all, which is the copy a translation organisation actually
works from. Each row now carries its kind:
1,001 every reachable pool checked — the real translation gap
660 GRN not yet swept — the crawl is still running
183 sign language — pools are key-gated, an access problem
1 no language code — no pool can index it
Adding it exposed that the two surfaces bucketed differently. The
table tests sign language first; the map tested private-use first, so
47 Deaf groups were filed under "unindexable code" and the Deaf share
read 136 instead of 183. Both were internally honest and they told
different stories, which is worse than either being wrong on its own.
The map now uses the table's order, because being Deaf is the more
actionable fact about those rows than the shape of their code, and it
still says 47 of them are doubly stuck. Both surfaces report 1,001 /
660 / 183 / 1, verified against each other rather than separately.
The meta warns that filtering to sign_language alone is now the whole
Deaf figure and not a subset, since the private-use rows are the same
people.
170 more codes, 62 with gospel audio. 797 codes carry a Words of Life
link and 1,028 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is that
recording — 79.2 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language.
Tier 0 is 1,845, from 3,457 when this began: 1,612 groups moved out of
"nothing found" on verified links. 1,707 of the gap's 2,456 codes are
decided, 70% of the sweep.
The hit rate is falling, and that is the sweep working rather than
failing: 36% this batch against 43% over the first nine. The codes are
probed largest-population first, so the tail is the small and rare
languages where GRN is least likely to have reached — which is exactly
where the remaining gap lives.
Provenance exact — 1,578 name GRN as checked, 1,578 decided, none
decided goes unnamed — and all 62 new URLs verified before shipping.
170 more codes, 78 with gospel audio. 735 codes carry a Words of Life
link, and 960 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is that
recording — 79.0 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language.
Tier 0 is 1,913. It was 3,457 when this work began, so 1,544 people
groups have moved out of "nothing found" on real, verified links.
1,537 of the gap's 2,456 codes are decided, 63% of the sweep, and the
hit rate holds at 43% across nine batches.
Provenance exact — 1,412 name GRN as checked, 1,412 decided, none
decided goes unnamed — and all 78 new URLs verified before shipping.
For 230 people groups the map said "nothing found" and stopped, when
that was not the whole truth: a language already spoken widely in
their country does have Scripture or the film. Kimr in Sudan has
nothing in Assangori; Sudanese Arabic, spoken by 65 groups around
them, has both. That is the difference between no way in and a way in
that is not their heart language.
WORDED SO IT CANNOT BE SKIMMED AS "THEY HAVE SCRIPTURE". The heading
says "Not their language", the body names whose language it is and how
widely it is spoken, the strength is quoted from the source, and the
last line says a second language is a way in and not a translation.
The chips above are untouched and still read "none found" five times,
and the tier is unchanged: 2,001 groups still have nothing of their
own, exactly as before.
Two exclusions, both measured rather than assumed. Fourteen of these
rows offer a DEAF people group a SPOKEN bridge — Gawri "has a film" is
no use to Deaf Pakistanis, the same error as offering them recorded
audio — so sign languages are out. Sixty-five carry the curated
strength "weak — may not be a real lingua franca"; a bridge the source
itself doubts is not an answer, so those are out too.
Placed below the whole chip row after a first pass split it, leaving
the Zume chip stranded under the panel.
170 more codes, 74 with gospel audio. 657 codes carry a Words of Life
link and 872 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is that
recording — 78.7 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language.
Tier 0 is 2,001, from 3,457 when this started: 1,456 groups have been
moved out of "nothing found" by real, verified links. 1,367 of the
gap's 2,456 codes are decided, 56% of the sweep, and the hit rate is
steady at 43% over eight batches.
Provenance exact — 1,246 name GRN as checked, 1,246 decided, none
decided goes unnamed — and all 74 new URLs verified before shipping.
Two claims in shipped metadata had gone false, and both were the kind
a reader trusts precisely because it looks specific.
people-group-resources listed Global Recordings Network under "not
included: requires an API key". Wrong on both halves: GRN is included,
583 codes of it, and it needed no key — 5fish resolves by ISO 639-3
and asks only for a crawl delay. A caveat naming a pool as missing
misleads exactly as much as a stale number when the pool is there. The
refresh now moves it out of that list and records how it was reached,
so the list cannot drift again.
The links table said "the 506 zero-reach rows" and "51 of the 168
codes". The true figures are 1,038 and 492: every source added rows
for languages no pin on this map speaks, and a sentence that counts
something has to be recounted when the something changes. Both are
computed now rather than typed.
Found by sweeping every shipped table's metadata for baked numbers
instead of waiting to trip over one. The surfaces came back clean —
their prose is already computed — so the stale claims were all in the
table meta, which is the part nobody looks at and a CSV carries away.
170 more codes probed, 72 with gospel audio. 583 codes carry a Words
of Life link and 785 people groups whose ONLY resource in any pool is
that recording — 78.3 million people — can hear the gospel in their
own language.
Tier 0 falls 2,172 to 2,088, from 3,457 when this began: the gap has
shrunk by 40%. 1,197 of the gap's 2,456 codes are decided, so the
sweep is now about half done, and the hit rate has settled around 42%
across seven batches.
Provenance exact through the change — 1,078 codes name GRN as checked,
1,078 decided, none decided goes unnamed — and all 72 new URLs
verified before shipping.
"Can hear it, no text" is a list of 2,556 groups. A team is not sent to
a group, it is sent to a country, and nothing aggregated that set —
the existing country table counts the groups with NOTHING, which is a
different population and does not contain one of these rows, because
none of them is tier 0.
154 countries, with two columns that disagree on purpose. Nigeria and
the DRC lead on LANGUAGES, 221 and 103, which is the translation
workload. China and Pakistan lead on PEOPLE, 218 and 195 million,
across far fewer languages. Which number matters depends on whether
you are funding translators or broadcasters, so both are shown and
neither is ranked for the reader.
The aggregate reconciles with its source exactly — 2,556 groups and
1,329,044,699 people both ways — and the basis travels as a column, so
a CSV that outlives this page still says "no text found in the pools
checked" rather than "no text exists".
Built without a browser: the box was low on memory this tick and a
gate that needs chromium was the wrong thing to add to it.
The same drift has now appeared six times, each spelled differently:
negated fields on a line naming "none", a positive hasAny over a
mapped row, a predicate inside a build script, and — found this tick —
a pair of columns no pass had ever touched. A source-level pattern has
to guess how the next one will be written.
Clause N does not guess. It compares the shipped ANSWER against the
pin tier, so it catches the seventh however it is phrased. Measured
when written: people-group-resources.any_resource_found disagreed with
the tier on 194 rows, and its no_resource_found pair contradicted
ITSELF on 7 more, because neither column was in the refresh at all.
Both now move together, 195 and 202 corrected, and the table agrees
with the tier on all 2,103 judgeable rows.
A code with no pin is SKIPPED, not guessed. The tier lives on pins, so
an unpinned code cannot be judged this way — judging it anyway
reported ajp as a defect on the first run, when the row was right and
the check was wrong. That is the failure this repo keeps meeting, so
it is written into the clause rather than left as a comment.
Also corrected there: the table's own note still told readers GRN
answers 403 to every request and had never been searched.
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.
170 more gap codes probed, 84 with gospel audio. 511 codes now carry a
Words of Life link, and 701 people groups whose ONLY resource in any
pool is that recording — 77.6 million people — can hear the gospel in
their own language.
Tier 0 falls 2,270 to 2,172. It was 3,457 when this work began, so the
gap is down by more than a third, and the translation-priority table
grows in step: 2,556 groups now, because every code GRN reaches moves
a group out of "nothing found" and into "can hear it, no text".
1,027 of the gap's codes are decided. Provenance stays exact through
the change — 915 codes name GRN as checked, 915 have been decided,
none decided goes unnamed — and all new URLs were verified before
shipping.
170 more gap codes, 84 with gospel audio. 427 codes now carry a Words
of Life link; 603 people groups whose only resource in any pool is
that recording — 76.4 million people — can hear the gospel in their
own language. Tier 0 falls 2,373 to 2,270, from 3,457 when this began.
859 of the gap's codes decided, provenance exact at 752 claiming GRN,
752 decided, none decided-but-unnamed.
Also measured, rather than assumed: the map really does filter the
table beneath it. Composed on the dashboard, opening Foodo and
pressing "Every resource in Foodo ↓" cuts the table from 7,762 rows to
1 — Foodo has exactly one resource, the Scripture Earth PDF. That was
claimed by the brief and had never been checked end to end.
The translation-priority table tracks the sweep: 2,458 groups now,
up from 2,355, because every code GRN reaches moves a group out of
"nothing found" and into "can hear it, no text".
The map could select the groups that can already hear the gospel but
have no text Scripture. A filter cannot be sorted, exported, or handed
to a committee, and this is precisely the list that gets handed to a
committee. None of these groups appears in "Where Nothing Was Found"
either, because none of them is tier 0 — it is the opposite question.
2,355 groups across 1,224 languages, largest first, with CSV and JSON
export. Each row names what the group DOES have and links to it, so it
is actionable without the map: Western Punjabi, 97 million, "audio
Scripture, the JESUS Film". The pools checked and the pools NOT checked
are columns on every row, because an exported spreadsheet strips the
caveat first and the caveat is the part that keeps this honest.
Fixing the map to agree exposed a real defect in the filter shipped
last tick: it counted 49 SIGN languages among its 2,289. "Can hear the
gospel" is the wrong sentence about a Deaf people group, and recorded
audio is neither what they lack nor what they need — this map already
suppresses the audio chip and the GRN attach for them for that reason.
Both surfaces now exclude them and both report 2,355.
The map could select the 2,289 groups that can hear the gospel but
have no text Scripture; it could not say which of them to weigh first,
and 2,289 dots cannot be read top-down. The gap sheet gains a fifth
tab that ranks them by population and, on each row, names what the
group DOES have — "has audio Scripture, the JESUS Film — no text
found" — so a reader can see whether they are being sent to a
recording or a film before they go.
The tab describes a different population from the other four, so it
does not inherit their sentences: the nothing-found opener, the audio
caveat and the macrolanguage note are all scoped away from it. Its own
paragraph states the bound twice, because the top rows are Western
Punjabi at 97 million and Wu Chinese at 92.5 million, and a reader
skimming those numbers must not come away thinking no text exists in
any variety they speak.
GRN batch four: 170 more codes, 90 with gospel audio. 343 codes now
carry a Words of Life link and tier 0 falls 2,488 to 2,373 — from
3,457 when this work began. 689 of the gap's codes are decided, and
provenance stays exact at 588 claiming GRN, 588 decided, none
decided-but-unnamed.
170 more gap codes probed, 89 with gospel audio — a 52% hit rate,
steady across three batches now. 253 codes carry a Words of Life link
and 385 people groups whose only resource in any pool is that
recording — 71.6 million people — can hear the gospel in their own
language. Tier 0 falls 2,610 to 2,488, from 3,457 when this work
started.
520 of the gap's 2,456 codes are decided. The provenance stays exact
through the change: 434 codes name GRN as checked, 434 have really
been decided, and none that was decided goes unnamed.
The sheet's "checked" line is what tells a reader whether "nothing
found" means anything, and it was wrong in both directions. 5,131
codes omitted Scripture Earth, which had in fact been swept for every
one of them. And 110 codes named GRN as checked when the sweep has
never looked at them — GRN is crawled a batch at a time at the delay
their robots.txt asks for, so 2,100 codes are still unread.
The cause was ordering, the same lesson this file already carries for
the dead-link drop: the pass that normalises provenance ran before the
Scripture Earth and GRN fetchers, so the codes those fetchers create
kept the raw constant. A tidying pass that runs before the thing it
tidies reports a confident answer about a room still filling up. It
now runs after every source attaches, and the count is exact — 282
codes name GRN, 282 have been decided, and none that was decided goes
unnamed.
Scripture Earth is claimed unconditionally because that sweep really
did cover every code this map uses: a code absent from their index is
a checked negative. GRN is claimed per code, and the rest carry
"grn (not yet swept)" in the unchecked list instead.
Clause M of the coverage gate now fails if any code names a pool the
sweep never decided for it. Poison is 13/13.
170 more gap codes probed at the ten-second delay their robots.txt
asks for. 93 hold gospel audio — a 55% hit rate, higher than the first
batch because the sweep runs largest-population first and those are
the languages GRN has always concentrated on.
164 codes now carry a Words of Life link, and 263 people groups whose
ONLY resource in any pool is that recording — 66.7 million people —
can now hear the gospel in their own language. Tier 0 falls 2,746 to
2,610. Largest reached this round: Min Bei Chinese at 11.3 million,
Swiss German at 5.5 million, Huizhou Chinese at 5.4 million.
All new URLs verified before shipping; 350 of 2,456 gap codes decided
so far, and the fetcher resumes where it stopped.
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.
SIL and its translation partners publish Scripture for small languages
the big catalogues skip, which is exactly the population left in the
gap: 2,901 groups had nothing in eBible, Arclight, Door43 or FCBH.
921 codes now carry a Scripture Earth link and 28 groups that had
nothing at all — 339,550 people — have Scripture in their own language
for the first time on this map. Tier 0 falls 2,901 to 2,873.
Most of this source is not what it appears to be, and the fetcher
throws away both false positives rather than shipping them. Their open
index lists 3,477 language directories, but 764 of the ones we can join
are empty stubs: trusting the listing alone would have handed 716
people groups a link to an empty folder. And a "video" directory holds
JESUSFilm-<iso>.txt metadata, not playable film — 1,588 codes have
nothing else, so video alone never qualifies a code. Only PDF, audio,
Scripture App Builder, study notes and SFM text count.
All 921 URLs verified HTTP 200 before shipping, and the artefacts were
opened by hand first: Baka's is 14.4 MB of application/pdf, Foodo's
40.7 MB, and a nonexistent sibling 404s, so a 200 here means a file.
The coverage gate, the verifier and the links table each had to be
taught the new field. Leaving any one of them ignorant would have been
worse than not adding the source: the gate caught all 28 tier changes
as inconsistent, and the links table filed 921 rows under the "other"
publisher — the fallback that exists to make an unscreened domain
impossible to hide. The sheet's "checked" line now names the pool too,
since it is searched.
Its toast has always read "Tap a coloured dot — someone still needs prayer". Tapping one
showed Scripture, film, audio, video, stories, tracts and training, and no way to pray.
doxa.life publishes a page per people group and sibling plugins in this repo already link
to it; this map simply never did. 1,723 groups now carry a "Pray for <group>" action with
the number already praying beside it.
THIS IS THE ONE JOIN HERE THAT IS NOT BY LANGUAGE, and it needed justifying rather than
assuming. Every other source keys on ISO 639-3 because a translation serves everyone who
speaks the language; prayer does not work that way — you pray for a people, in a place. So
this keys on (group name, country), which is a NAME join, the thing this map refuses
everywhere else because names collide.
Allowed only because the key was tested first: on the API side (name, country) is
perfectly unique — 2,107 entries, 2,107 distinct keys, 0 collisions — and on the pin side
12,379 pins give 12,369 distinct keys. The ambiguous ones are DROPPED, not guessed. One
entry was lost that way, and 383 more have no pin here at all.
pray.doxa.life is the fourth host in this bundle that answers 200 with identical bytes for
any URL: /abai-sungai and /zzz-not-a-real-group are both 3,903 bytes. Rendered it does
discriminate — a real slug titles the page "Abai Sungai - App" with 1,863 characters, a
bogus one titles it "Doxa.Life" with zero — but existence comes from the API listing,
which is the publisher's own statement and costs one request rather than 1,723 renders.
The lookup is COMPUTED, not baked into groupAt. groupAt runs the instant a pin is clicked,
so a value read there is whatever had arrived by then and never updates when the lazy
fetch lands — the same shape as the link-verification state that used to hang off
openPin's country branch.
Verified with a negative control: a group in the index renders an anchor whose href
matches the expected slug URL exactly, and German, which is not in it, renders nothing.
My probe reported FAIL twice against correct code by waiting a guessed 900ms; it now waits
for the data. Screenshot read — the Lati, 2,900 people with nothing found in any pool, can
now be prayed for.
languages-by-country is the bridge view: one row per country and language, ranked by
prevalence, flagging which languages could carry a resource to groups that lack one. Its
curated work — prevalence_rank, bridge_candidate, groups_speaking — is the reason it
exists and is untouched.
Its resource flags were not curated, and they had drifted like the other two legacy
tables: 75 rows wrong about Scripture, 39 wrong about whether the language carries
anything at all, 1 about film. That matters more here than elsewhere, because this table
is consulted to CHOOSE a bridge: a language flagged as carrying nothing when it carries
audio Scripture is a bridge somebody was told not to use.
Refreshed from the pin index, which is the same source the map draws. 0 of 613 rows now
disagree, and all 613 still carry their curated columns.
full_bible is deliberately NOT refreshed. The pin index knows a scope only for eBible
rows, so downgrading a curated "full Bible" on that basis would lose information rather
than correct it.
Also recorded rather than acted on: this table covers 175 countries while the map has
242 with pins, so 67 countries and 1,537 people groups have no bridge analysis at all.
That is a gap in curated coverage, not a contradiction — the rows that exist are now
correct — and filling it means doing the prevalence work, not copying numbers across.
gospel-by-country carries 242 countries with real per-country counts, and the map uses
them for the choropleth and the "where the gap concentrates" sheet. The tables profile
had no country table at all, so those numbers lived only inside the map — readable, not
exportable — while every other tab there offers CSV and JSON. A mobiliser deciding where
to send a team cannot work from a sheet they have to screenshot.
Derived, not a second source: every row is read out of gospel-by-country, which is itself
refreshed from the pin index, so the table and the map cannot disagree.
Three columns because they rank differently and each is somebody's question — groups with
nothing, people with nothing, and the share of the country each represents. The default
sort is by groups, and the share column is what makes rows like Vanuatu legible: 79 groups
with nothing out of 114, 69.3%, which ranks ninth by count and first by share. Region is
carried through so the table can be grouped the same way the map's region tab ranks.
Curated columns come through as-is and stay null where the curated analysis does not cover
the country — null, never zero, because zero is a claim this build cannot make.
Verified against the PIN INDEX rather than against the table being tested: 242 countries
with pins, 2,901 groups with nothing, worst is PNG at 469. The rendered tab reports 242
rows and its first row reads Papua New Guinea / PNG / Oceania / 831 / 469 / 56.4, with
650 real cells. No page errors. Screenshot read.
region was empty on all 242 country rows, so the map had no way to answer "what share of
this part of the world is unreached" — only how many groups a country holds and how many
people live in them.
The source carries UNm49Region, and it was verified before being trusted: only 2, 9, 19,
142 and 150 appear — exactly the five UN M49 top-level regions — every country maps to
exactly ONE of them with 0 conflicts, and the five sum to 12,379, the whole corpus. So
the code resolves to a real name. It is backfilled on every row, not just the new ones,
and all 242 now carry a region with none blank.
The rate is a genuinely different answer from the two already on offer:
Oceania 51.2% of its 1,325 groups have nothing — 679 groups — 3.1M people
Africa 30.0% of 3,074 — 923 — 68.2M
Asia 19.3% of 5,073 — 978 — 198.7M
Americas 11.4% of 2,117 — 241 — 6.1M
Europe 10.1% of 790 — 80 — 11.6M
Oceania is half unreached by group and the smallest population of the five; Asia is the
reverse on both. Ranked by rate, because count and population are what the other two tabs
already say and a third copy of either would be noise. All three are offered rather than
one picked for the reader.
The rows are plain divs, not buttons: a region is not somewhere this map can fly to, and
a control that looks clickable and does nothing is worse than a row that does not pretend.
Verified against an offline computation over the same index: all five regions match
exactly on rate, group count and population. The sheet header is now three-way rather
than showing the country prose in region mode. All five profiles still mount clean.
Set out to verify the map's second mode, "Resources found", which had never been tested.
It works: the legend switches, the arithmetic is an exact complement of the gap view — 0
of 170 countries disagreed — and the two modes genuinely repaint, 98/46/12/6 polygons by
band in gap against 85/66/9/2 in coverage.
Proving that took three attempts and the third one found the real defect. Comparing the
fill expression proved nothing, because it is ["get","color"] in BOTH modes — the colour
is baked onto each feature and switching modes rewrites the source data. Comparing the
features instead showed 157 coloured and 5 transparent against 170 rows in the table,
and that mismatch was the thread worth pulling.
The previous refresh of this table only UPDATED rows that already existed, and the table
came from the curated 2,106-record set. So 60 countries carrying pins had no row at all —
150 people groups with nothing found, invisible to every country-level surface. Canada
20, Ghana 15, Timor-Leste 13, Australia 7. 72 countries are now added from the pins, and
0 countries with bare groups are missing; all 242 rows agree with the pins on groups and
no_resource.
Curated columns on the new rows are null, never zero: this build does not know a growth
rate for Canada, and zero is a claim. They are flagged from_pins_only so the different
basis is visible rather than implied. Names come from people-groups-slim's CountryName,
because a row labelled "CAN" renders "CAN" as the sheet's title. UNm49Region was
deliberately NOT used for region — it is a numeric code, and "19" is worse than blank.
One row stays a bare code: Kosovo, whose non-standard KOS has no name in the source, and
inventing one for a single row is not worth it.
The boundary file turns out to hold only 162 polygons and has no Canada, Australia,
Timor-Leste or Taiwan, so this paints five previously-transparent countries and fixes the
rest where it actually shows: clicking a pin in Canada now opens a sheet titled "Canada"
with 304 groups, matching the pins exactly, where before it fell through to a bare ISO
code with no statistics.
The dashboard is the one profile never opened on a phone. Structurally it holds up at
390x844 — no horizontal overflow anywhere in either shadow tree, canvas 390x675, the
table half renders 20 real rows and 60 cells, no page errors. What does not hold up is
what it says.
Under the table, the Pools Caveat read "Pools checked: eBible.org, JESUS Film (Arclight),
Door43/unfoldingWord". On the same screen, visible immediately above it, were rows typed
Audio Scripture, Bible video, Zume Training and Gospel presentation — four pools the
caveat denied having checked. It is the most direct version of a mistake this bundle has
now hit repeatedly: a sentence written by hand goes stale the moment a source is added,
and this one had gone stale four times over.
It is no longer written by hand. The checked list is now counted off the rows themselves,
so it cannot disagree with the table it sits under: "Cru (GodTools), Door43
(unfoldingWord), Faith Comes By Hearing, JESUS Film, PNG.Bible, Zume Training,
eBible.org, eBible.org (mirror)". The NOT-checked half stays prose, because it names
things that are absent and no row can testify to those — GRN, api.bible, the Digital
Bible Library and Progress Bible, each needing a credential or an agreement.
The page subtitle had the same shape of error, offering "scripture, film or audio" over
tables carrying seven media. It now names the question rather than a list that will go
stale again.
Verified on the phone viewport after the change: table half still 20 rows / 60 cells, no
overflow, no page errors, and the rendered caveat lists all eight sources. Screenshot
read.
Every pool here so far is Scripture, film, Bible video or a course. None is a GOSPEL
PRESENTATION — the short translated thing a person actually opens with someone. Cru
publishes those, in the same organisation that makes the JESUS Film, so the doctrine
question is settled the same way the brief settles it for the film. Only their gospel
tracts are included, from a fixed allow-list; the lessons and survey tools are not.
IT CLOSES NO GAP AND SAYS SO. All 94 of these languages already have something, so this
is depth rather than coverage and moves no tier. Tiers are byte-identical at
2901/4767/4711. It reaches 3,270 pins and 3.97bn people.
godtools.org, the obvious host, IS A PARKED DOMAIN. It answers 200 to everything with a
114-byte body, and rendered, every URL — including /zz/nosuchtool-xyzzy — reads
"godtools.org is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com". Shipping links there would have
sent people to a GoDaddy ad.
The real front-end is knowgod.com, and it does serve per-language tracts: /en/kgp reads
"Knowing God Personally", /sw/kgp reads "Kumjua Mungu Kibinafsi". But ONLY once
rendered. By fetch it is a uniform 3,864-byte shell for every URL valid or not — the
third host in this bundle with that shape, after jesusfilm's old ?languageId= and
live.bible.is.
So existence is proved from Cru's own API and never from the page: a (language, tool)
pair exists exactly when the resource's latest-translations intersect that language's
translations. Checked against the browser before being trusted — en/kgp and sw/kgp both
intersect and both render real localised text, and the bogus pair does not intersect. In
band, the verifier's controls are now 7 negative all non-verified and 7 positive all
verified, with a bogus knowgod pair among the negatives. All 94 URLs verified.
Clause I keeps its closed set: Gospel presentation only on knowgod.com, and knowgod.com
only that type. Poison self-test still 12/12. Screenshot read: German shows six distinct
resource types, including "Gospel presentation - Knowing God Personally".
