Pith Number

pith:XVQERAFA

pith:2019:XVQERAFA77HPB3XJH52HINNALC

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Understanding the Signature of Controversial Wikipedia Articles through Motifs in Editor Revision Networks

Alun Preece, Diane Felmlee, Don Towsley, James R. Ashford, Liam D. Turner, Roger M. Whitaker

arxiv:1904.08139 v1 · 2019-04-17 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVQERAFA77HPB3XJH52HINNALC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:18.661608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd604880a0ffcef0eee93f747435a05891a4db101fb21ef18589e6f04e350887

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.08139 · arxiv_version: 1904.08139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.08139 · pith_short_12: XVQERAFA77HP · pith_short_16: XVQERAFA77HPB3XJ · pith_short_8: XVQERAFA

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/XVQERAFA77HPB3XJH52HINNALC \
  | 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: bd604880a0ffcef0eee93f747435a05891a4db101fb21ef18589e6f04e350887

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6d2e965a8de9a3446c88adb607c4a32db74c7aed56f284f9274ad81c1b2cb5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-17T08:50:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55c768ab82098f3581ad9804c4a4466fd828852337e420b3b856c1817d953184"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.08139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}