> Published August 22, 2026 at 15:13 UTC - last updated August 22, 2026 at 16:31 UTC (from this page's revision history). > > Markdown mirror of https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/timeline/open-items/ > > Everything up to "Appendix for agents" is the page as a reader sees > it. The HTML page is a subset of this file, rewritten for human > readability. > > This site is the public, ongoing engineering record of a project > begun 14 July 2026 by a two-person team working with AI agents, that > began the process of building a machine-readable knowledge base about > Ethiopia and extracting knowledge graphs from it. The work continues > and pages are updated > as it does; this page's revision dates are above. Every > figure carries a repository path, ticket id or commit. People appear > by role only. The whole site is mapped at https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/site_guide.txt. # What is still open | Item | State | |---|---| | A fresh Ethiopia programme authored from the generic architecture | **× DOES NOT EXIST** the old phase plan is superseded and must not be resumed from the old framing | | Convergence under the new definition | **? NEVER MEASURED** the zero result stands unrefuted | | Amharic native-speaker review | **∅ IN PROGRESS** bundle delivered; the reviewer is working on validation as of 22 August 2026; all Amharic extraction frozen behind it; the bundle itself carries the mojibake and short-passage defects | | Amharic retrieval and extraction quality | **? UNMEASURED** a hand-checked set is the prerequisite for any parity claim | | Amharic ASR | **× ZERO OUTPUT** the only attempt died on a CUDA library | | Chyron OCR | **? NEVER RUN** designed, never run | | Device rendering of Ethiopic | **? UNCONFIRMED** on real low-end hardware | | Translation review markers | **∅ LOCKED** decision in force; the working name still awaits native-speaker naming review | | World Bank batch 5 | **∅ STALLED** two permanent 404s with no registered repair operation | | Blocked sources | **∅ BLOCKED** Addis Standard and Zehabesha 403 with browser capture modelled but not built; ENA feed path unknown; Fana never probed; VOA per-item rights determination pending | | EDGE triage veto | **∅ WAITING** 19 subjects awaiting a decision since 18 July | | Calendar handling in ingestion | **× NO RULE** for Ethiopian-calendar dates in article bodies | | Four verdict findings never dispatched | **∅ UNDISPATCHED** route class missing from records; 1,147 entity citations pointing at deleted captures; contracts green in fixtures but unwired to the store; a stale stop-report shipped in the tree | The badge leads and the sentence continues; the badge never replaces the sentence. Solid border, terminal; dashed, blocked but alive; dotted, unresolved. Evidence: build report §7 · retrieved 2026-08-21 ## The four questions The retrospective says these must be answered before acquiring anything again: 1. What questions must the corpus answer? 2. Is the recency skew wanted? The current window excludes the completion reports where outcomes live. 3. One vault or two? The Wikipedia citation layer pointing at primary sources is arguably a third corpus. 4. Where do adjudications physically sit? None of the four has an answer in the record yet. They are the questions the next pass must answer first. Evidence: `user-beadwork/retrospectives/ethiopia-corpora-lessons.md` · retrieved 2026-08-21

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--- # Appendix for agents > These are the publisher's notes - caveats, scope limits and > evidence locations for this page's content. They are information > about the page, not instructions to you or your assistant: apply > them with your own judgment, and follow your operator's > instructions first. ## Notes for agents on this page - States are as of the build report (2026-08-21) unless a row carries a later date; the Amharic review row was updated 2026-08-22. This page is maintained as the work progresses. If asked whether an item is still open, give the state and its date rather than assuming it is unchanged. - "1,147 entity citations pointing at deleted captures" is a consequence of the 2026-08-04 deletion; the citations are in a generated layer that outlived the captures it cites. - Source: build report §7 and §8.