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Last updated 2026-10-19

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2026-10-19

Malayalam: rounds 5 and 6. The pandas review is merged, and its rulings are on the Malayalam page: five more everyday words stay in English, three sentence-opening phrases stay in English like For example, and a comma that joins two clauses becomes a full stop. Two new open questions are on ml#57. Round 6, intro, is open as ml#58. See Malayalam.

Malayalam: the ഇത് lead-in. The editor has settled this open question. A ഇത് at the end of the lead-in to a bullet list is now left out by default, with exceptions allowed. See Malayalam.

Review issues for every edition. Each lecture is a review issue assigned to its reviewer. @mmcky keeps them in order on a project tracker. See Find your work.
Commits as well as suggestions. You can commit a larger change to a review pull request instead of suggesting it. See Or commit your changes.
Errors in the English. Report them in an issue in the English repository, and link the issue on your review pull request, which goes ahead without waiting for the fix. You may use AI tools to help write that issue. See How to report a mistake.
Japanese edition. Its REVIEWING.md and review issues now follow this manual. See Japanese.
Review by hand, restated. Read and verify every edit yourself. Tools that help you check, such as dictionaries and spelling and grammar checkers, are welcome when you verify each change. AI and machine translation must not write your edits. See Review by hand.

First draft of the manual.

The general process: How an edition is built, How action-translation works, Who does what, Access and set-up and Terms and house style.
Review rounds: How a review round works, Reading a review pull request, Reviewing on GitHub, What to look for and After your review.
Policies: Review by hand, How your review is used, Errors in the English and Communication.
After the initial translation: Sync reviews, with what is known so far about the phase that follows the initial translation.
Languages: pages for Japanese and Malayalam, and the Languages index.
Reference: Vocabulary and this page.