Transparency

Revisions

Specific reader and maintainer revisions are shown here by default. The broader source-review and automatic change log remains available under All sources for technical transparency.

How a revision happens

Wondering how to propose a revision?

Click on any verse in the reader, then within the toolbar select the three-dot menu, click Suggest a revision, provide your reasoning, and submit. You may need to be signed in to submit.

1. A change is proposed

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

2. Evidence is weighed

Source text, context, and review notes are checked before a change lands.

3. Accepted 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 β€” an English polish, a restored rhetorical force, a preserved wordplay, or a project-wide consistency fix (like the Ξ§ΟΞΉΟƒΟ„ΟŒΟ‚ β†’ 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 kept out of the automatic-safe-fix path.

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