{"what_this_is":"A fingerprint of every official source we cite. For each we record a sha256 over the exact bytes retrieved, when we first verified against them, and when those bytes last changed. If a source is amended after we read it, `last_changed` moves and we re-verify the value before it is quoted.","summary":{"cited_urls":1417,"snapshotted":491,"gone":3,"blocked_to_automation":35,"unreachable":83,"unchecked":802,"mirror_bytes":185683825},"updated":"2026-08-01T03:46:19.252Z","statuses":{"ok":"Retrieved and fingerprinted.","gone":"HTTP 404/410 — the document is no longer published at that URL.","blocked_to_automation":"HTTP 401/403/429 — the host refuses automated retrieval. The document is very likely still available to a person following the link; we simply cannot fingerprint it, and we do not claim it is dead.","unreachable":"5xx, timeout or DNS failure — may be transient.","unchecked":"Cited, not yet snapshotted."},"per_series":"https://afriref.dev/provenance/{country}/{series}","caveat":"We publish the fingerprint, not the mirrored document. A hash plus a dated retrieval is evidence we read what we say we read; republishing hundreds of third-party documents raises licensing questions we have not cleared source by source."}