Pith Number

pith:PMN62TKE

pith:2015:PMN62TKEBVFGKRHCRLR5NFFSJV

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VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System

Francesca Spezzano, Srijan Kumar, V.S. Subrahmanian

arxiv:1507.01272 v1 · 2015-07-05 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMN62TKEBVFGKRHCRLR5NFFSJV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:37:17.539590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b1bed4d440d4a6544e28ae3d694b24d771c132bd9da6ce43ea199c06ce0a521

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.01272 · arxiv_version: 1507.01272v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.01272 · pith_short_12: PMN62TKEBVFG · pith_short_16: PMN62TKEBVFGKRHC · pith_short_8: PMN62TKE

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/PMN62TKEBVFGKRHCRLR5NFFSJV \
  | 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: 7b1bed4d440d4a6544e28ae3d694b24d771c132bd9da6ce43ea199c06ce0a521

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f26b27bfa89b1cbf66e3587d1d51129ad72d9392380dfd10e03a2630d00059a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-05T20:53:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8ec252955cc9e515a550d636aecef168e21f499145dee617100900d190a3271"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.01272",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}