Transparency

Revisions

Every approved edit is kept as a public record. This page shows the most useful numbers — significant approved revisions, the larger applied-revision history, and where each change appears in context.

How a revision happens

1. A change is proposed

A reader note, maintainer proposal, or review pass points to a source-grounded improvement.

2. Evidence is weighed

Source text, context, AI review, and human judgment are checked.

3. Approved edits land

Accepted wording, rationale, and any public credit stay in history.

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What counts as a revision?

A revision is a targeted change to a committed verse — an English polish, a restored rhetorical force, a preserved wordplay, or a project-wide consistency fix (like the Χριστός → Messiah normalization). Revisions don't overwrite the original draft; they layer on top, and the previous rendering is kept as a footnote on every revised verse. Detailed policy in REVISION_METHODOLOGY.md.

What do the tiers mean?

Tier 1 is mechanical stylistic polish — awkward English cleaned up where the suggested rewrite shares most of its words with the draft. These are auto-applied with a word-overlap safety check.

Tier 2 is Claude Opus 4.7 adjudicating Gemini's flagged majors — mistranslations, lexical fixes, and grammar losses whose rationale cites specific Hebrew / Greek evidence. A Tier-2 rewrite is only applied if the rationale grounds the change in BDAG, HALOT, BDB, or in source-language grammar.

Anything requiring policy judgment (theological weight, cross-verse consistency) is escalated to a human rather than auto-applied.

Revisions index fetched from revisions.json on the peoples-open-bible repo. Updated whenever a translation commit lands on main.