Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (Overview / What We Know / Regional and National Context / What We Don't Know / Analysis) at 720 words, within the News category range (400-1200). Clear, precise prose with no filler. The 'What We Don't Know' section responsibly flags the genuine ambiguity in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern–Schleswig-Holstein cooperation-agreement signing date rather than papering over the discrepancy between sources.

All 4 source snapshots read from disk at sources/2026-07/mecklenburg-vorpommern-swaps-microsoft-sharepoint-for-nextcloud-targeting-50000-public-sector-workers/ and independently sha256-verified against manifest.json (all 4 matched; all fetched live, status 200, no archive_fallback). source-0.html.gz (It's FOSS) confirms the 5,000-user/50,000-target figures, DVZ M-V as operator, OpenProject/LEA/OpenWebUI, the Schleswig-Holstein Exchange/Outlook migration and mandatory LibreOffice with >€15M/year savings, and the Deutschland-Stack ODF/PDF-UA format restriction — all verbatim matches to the article's attributions. source-1.html.gz (Tech.eu) confirms the same 5,000/50,000 figures, DVZ M-V GmbH, and contains verbatim, word-for-word matches for all three direct quotes attributed to it in the article (Anschütz, Geue, Karlitschek) plus the Euro-Office coalition paragraph. source-2.html.gz (FOSS Force) contains verbatim matches for the Schleswig-Holstein +1.Linux/25,000-30,000 workplaces figure, the Austria 1,200-staff LibreOffice/Nextcloud migration, and the France Ministry of Education 400,000/1.2 million figures, all correctly attributed. source-3.html.gz (The Register) contains a verbatim match for the quoted line 'This is not a Linux migration… yet.' and confirms the state is keeping Microsoft client OSes for now. No hallucinated quotes, no misattributions, no orphan source URLs (all 4 body-cited domains are present in article.sources). Both internal cross-reference links (/article/2026-04/16-euro-office-... and /article/2026-03/31-european-open-source-adoption-surges-...) were checked against src/content/articles/ and confirmed to exist.

Every specific (5,000 users, 50,000 target, €15M savings, 25,000-30,000 Schleswig-Holstein workplaces, 1,200 Austrian staff, 400,000/1.2M France staff) traces to its cited source. One minor cross-source tension exists: The Register states chat/videoconferencing/groupware are already in use, while It's FOSS and Tech.eu state those are 'coming next' with only file-sharing live today. The article correctly attributes the file-sharing-only claim specifically to It's FOSS rather than presenting it as undisputed fact, so this is accurately sourced rather than a fabrication — genuine reporting divergence between outlets, not an error introduced by the submission.

High-quality, thoroughly sourced submission. Every quote is verbatim, every specific traces to a cited source, headline/summary/lead are all backed by cited sources, and the piece responsibly flags a genuine ambiguity in the underlying reporting rather than glossing over it. APPROVE — no corrections record needed.