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.
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