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.
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.
Two tables behind the brief's resources view were describing a different dataset from
the map beside them.
"Where Nothing Was Found" still listed 3,457 groups. The map draws 2,901. Its builder
already used the current tier; it simply had not been re-run since audio Scripture and
Bible video started lifting groups out of tier 0. A mobiliser exporting that tab would
have worked through 556 groups who now have a resource. Regenerated, and it matches the
map exactly.
"The Deaf Gap" was worse, and structurally so. It came from the curated 2,106-record
set and reported 73 sign languages, 120 people groups, 19.35M people. The map draws
150 sign languages, 234 groups, 84.2M people. The tab named for the Deaf gap was
missing more than half of it. Rebuilt from the pins - the same index the map draws, so
the two cannot disagree - and it now measures 150 languages, 234 groups, 84,159,050
people, of which 136 languages / 183 groups / 55,199,840 people have nothing found.
Kept deliberately: the bridge rule, verbatim, because it is the most important sentence
in the table - a sign language is bridged ONLY by another sign language, and text or
audio in a spoken language does not reach a Deaf community. That is also why the
related-variety reasoning added for spoken macrolanguages must never be applied to
these rows. Private-use codes are counted rather than hidden: 40 of these languages
carry qaa-qtz codes that no resource pool indexes, so "nothing found" for them is a
statement about the join as much as about the world, and each such row says so.
MY FIRST VERSION OF THIS SHIPPED AN EMPTY TABLE AND MY PROBE PASSED IT. DataTable
renders a { meta, columns, rows } document and the rebuild omitted `columns`, so the
tab drew its header, its "234 rows" caption and five pages of pagination over a
completely empty body. The probe had asserted the caption - a number the page prints
about itself, which is not evidence it drew anything. It now counts rendered rows AND
cells, and is proven against the defect: with `columns` removed it reports 50 row
shells and 0 cells and FAILS; restored, it passes. The row count alone would still have
missed it.
Verified: both tabs' captions match offline counts from the same index (2,901 and 234),
both render real cells, no page errors. Screenshot read.
posters/ (42M webp set the poster walls fetch) and tables/ (the merged served
table set — its index.json is the merge; per-profile data/tables remain the
build-time sources) now live in data/ with build copy-steps. Byte parity
verified; served paths unchanged. public/ is now FULLY regenerable — every
source-of-truth folder has a home outside the web-root.
