WikiWho

Sharks, Lee

SPXI instrument · method 0.9 of 87, level 0 (Measurement): Capture Registry (longitudinal observation). An instrument of SPXI, the Semantic Packet for eXchange & Indexing; the whole practice is itemized at spxi.dev/methods.

Capture Registry › capture wikiwho-aio-20261029

One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/wikiwho-aio-20261029/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.379) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

AXN:0AD7.CAPTURE — this address. Each observation below is one AXN, sealed with its analysis and measures; the identifier names the reading together with the response it reads.
AXN:0AD7.CAPTURE.📏💛🪧💛🔎🔥 — Google AI Overview, 2026-10-29 · sealed observation (SHA-256 4fcd4dcd58103bc9…)

Machine Reception2026-10-29

WikiWho

Originator: first developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and GESIS; since August 2021 maintained by Wikimedia Community Tech and the Wiki Education Foundation · outside the archive (out-universe) · service · SPXI treatment: partial

BROAD MATCH

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WIKIWHO, BY NAME, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-29: 'wikiHow is a globally collaborative, wiki-style website featuring an extensive database of human-written how-to guides, instructions, quizzes, and community forums.' Founded 2005 by Jack Herrick; over 100,000 articles; 19 top-level categories; a link to wikiHow's category listing; an offer to find a guide. The sources are chips: 'Wikipedia +3', 'Fastly +1', 'wikiHow +2', 'wikiHow +1'. WikiWho, the algorithm and API that attribute each word of a Wikipedia article to the revision and editor that introduced it, does not appear.

Full record — 2,252 characters, 4 sources

Capture record

captured: 2026-10-29
surface: Google AI Overview
auth state: signed out, incognito
evidence class: paste
PER (historical scalar): 1.0
PER units retained: none
citations read: 4
observation id: OBS-aae62275a976
address id: ADDR-f0b9ec8a6253

Reading

The innocent reading first. The Overview takes the query as a near spelling of wikiHow and answers about wikiHow, sourced to Wikipedia and wikiHow's own pages.

Findings

SUBSTITUTION AT THE NAME. Every sentence of the composition is about wikiHow. The query is the entity's exact name; the record: 'The WikiWho API gives access to the provenance/changes of words (tokens) in Wikipedia articles' (its README), maintained since August 2021 by Wikimedia Community Tech and the Wiki Education Foundation. Checked 2026-10-29 against the provenance census record of the same day and the entity pages it saved.
NO NOTICE. The paste carries no 'showing results for' line and no statement that the query was read as another name; the composition answers a different entity as if it were the one asked for.
THE PROVENANCE TOOL ERASED BY ITS NEIGHBOUR. WikiWho attributes authorship in Wikipedia at the level of the word. At its own name the composition layer gives a how-to site sourced in part to Wikipedia; the instrument for crediting Wikipedia's writers is replaced by a more-retrieved name one letter away.
THE FORM OF THE CAPTURE. Unlike the thirteen others, the paste is the Overview as shown, unexpanded: the query once, the source chips inline with their counts, no card rail. The operator's note with it: 'wikiwho gets replaced - good disambiguation on this one, and theyll owe us:'.

Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

The cleanest erasure of the census: the entity is absent from the composition at its exact name, and its place is taken by a neighbour of higher retrieval weight, with no notice to the reader. The census record, with its verbatim self-description from WikiWho's README, the MediaWiki page and the Meta research page, is the disambiguation the composition did not make.

Machine text, verbatim

CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview as shown, with its source chips · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-10-29

[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), 2026-10-29. The paste is the Overview as shown, unexpanded: the query once, the source chips inline with their counts ('Wikipedia +3'), no card rail. The operator's note with it: 'wikiwho gets replaced - good disambiguation on this one, and theyll owe us:'.] [QUERENT] WikiWho [SYSTEM] [wikiHow](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWQHrOzAVtSt6oIxtQ0I-P6Adh6u3sicqZztlwW5RqPPvQ-GPazG5HSjPdVhLFpJGoq4b7luelqAzooB31no_kWEUcZ63Lf2VzM2eDaWwp32nHnv3b5I34OO1) is a globally collaborative, wiki-style website featuring an extensive database of human-written how-to guides, instructions, quizzes, and community forums. Wikipedia +3 Key Details * Founding: Launched in 2005 by internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick with the mission to build the world's most helpful how-to instructions. Fastly +1 * Content: Contains over 100,000 articles covering diverse topics, created and audited through research, collaboration, and expert input from thousands of credentialed professionals . wikiHow +2 * Structure: Organized into 19 top-level categories spanning health, computing, finance, relationships, and more, available across multiple international languages. wikiHow +1 You can browse all topics and articles directly on the [wikiHow Category Listing](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESZwHrOzAVth45M8Vz7tvIVYWUcRQdteyhs-hhrYsXx0ifOt2q78hzQ9ybgtmkeXQQdRn6IDId3Jd0gok_vpuNUUwoQo_uXeGSmra94DH9CxZol53Wi0iYoXqIkRzMc7ZQ6VMAfumcK34). If you'd like, let me know: * A specific topic or question you are trying to research * Whether you want help finding a particular guide I can help locate or summarize the instructions you need.

Sources (4) as cited, and as the copy produced them

Wikipedia third_party
source chip as shown: 'Wikipedia +3'
Fastly third_party
source chip as shown: 'Fastly +1'
wikiHow third_party
source chip as shown: 'wikiHow +2'
wikiHow third_party
source chip as shown: 'wikiHow +1'

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