Pith Number

pith:53LACY7R

pith:2015:53LACY7RMTGK2UVL3LOE65775O

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Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia

Lexing Xie, Manuel Cebrian, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Tiberio Caetano

arxiv:1512.03523 v3 · 2015-12-11 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{53LACY7RMTGK2UVL3LOE65775O}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:10.284713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eed60163f164ccad52abdadc4f77ffeb9ac8d53b4588d20135b3e95c23354a94

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.03523 · arxiv_version: 1512.03523v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03523 · pith_short_12: 53LACY7RMTGK · pith_short_16: 53LACY7RMTGK2UVL · pith_short_8: 53LACY7R

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/53LACY7RMTGK2UVL3LOE65775O \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: eed60163f164ccad52abdadc4f77ffeb9ac8d53b4588d20135b3e95c23354a94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f7b0f55b3e6d1db792cd10c543af7f13794e835c6621790d879bfb74abb25ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-11T05:08:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73812476686690e5b38b40bfd3c1ad14eef7986e6f708c54398bfedd3fbfce0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.03523",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}