Methodology
How Country Data Updates Work
Country profiles are updated through a moderation-first pipeline designed to make contribution easy while making harmful or low-quality publication hard.
Pipeline
- Community submissions and suggested changes enter the moderation queue.
- Moderators triage, request clarification when needed, and apply risk labels.
- High-impact decisions require explicit reason notes before publish.
- Approved changes are written to canonical country records and become public.
- Rejected items remain auditable with review context.
Evidence Expectations
- Prefer primary legal/policy sources and reputable civil society reporting.
- Time-sensitive claims are reviewed for recency before publication.
- Conflicting sources are escalated for additional moderator review.
- Low-confidence claims may remain unscored until verification improves.
Quality Safeguards
- Assignment workflows reduce duplicate moderation actions.
- Decision templates standardize review rationale across moderators.
- SLA tracking highlights stale queue items before they become outdated.
- Schema compatibility checks preserve route availability during rollouts.
For score interpretation and bands, see How Country Scoring Works.