{"address":{"q":"WikiWho","record":"wikiwho-aio-20261029"},"analysis":{"analysis":"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.","d":"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.","d_full":"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.","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 sources 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:'."],"match":"BROAD MATCH","mt":"WIKIWHO ON THE OVERVIEW — REPLACED BY WIKIHOW: JACK HERRICK, 2005, 100,000 ARTICLES, 19 CATEGORIES; THE TOKEN-LEVEL AUTHORSHIP TOOL FOR WIKIPEDIA ABSENT, AND NO NOTICE OF THE SUBSTITUTION","notes":{"prompts":"One query. Sent by the operator on 2026-10-29 with thirteen others, one per entity of the provenance meta-aggregator, from the strings supplied at his request ('shoot me those search strings. strings on the bare entity, no follow questions'); pasted in one message separated by '$'. The paste was lost to a context compaction of this session and re-pasted by the operator the same day; the second paste is the one seated. Seated with the operator's note on the substitution."},"originator":{"basis":"Not the archive's: WikiWho; its operator, as the record gives it: first developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and GESIS; since August 2021 maintained by Wikimedia Community Tech and the Wiki Education Foundation. Formalized by the provenance meta-aggregator record of 2026-10-29 (https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/wikiwho/), editor Lee Sharks; the record's fields carry verbatim quotes from the sources it saved with sha256, each with its basis (the operator's own page or a third-party account). Recorded 2026-10-29; repaired the same day.","entity_type":"service","name":"first developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and GESIS; since August 2021 maintained by Wikimedia Community Tech and the Wiki Education Foundation","relation":"external","spxi_treatment":"partial"},"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."},"measures":{"archive_controlled_cites":0,"cite_list":[{"n":1,"note":"source chip as shown: 'Wikipedia +3'","rel":"third_party","site":"Wikipedia","snip":null,"title":null,"url":null},{"n":2,"note":"source chip as shown: 'Fastly +1'","rel":"third_party","site":"Fastly","snip":null,"title":null,"url":null},{"n":3,"note":"source chip as shown: 'wikiHow +2'","rel":"third_party","site":"wikiHow","snip":null,"title":null,"url":null},{"n":4,"note":"source chip as shown: 'wikiHow +1'","rel":"third_party","site":"wikiHow","snip":null,"title":null,"url":null}],"cites":4,"per":1.0,"per_note":"The entity is absent: no person, institution, identifier or page of WikiWho's; the persons and sources named are wikiHow's.","per_v":{"author":false,"id":false,"inst":false,"src":false}},"observation":{"auth":"signed out, incognito","date":"2026-10-29","ev":"paste","q":"WikiWho","q_kind":"the name of an entity of the provenance meta-aggregator (WikiWho; record https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/wikiwho/, compiled 2026-10-29), the bare entity string supplied at the operator's request ('strings on the bare entity, no follow questions') and run by him the same day, to supply the composition layer's account of the entity for its record and its /non row. A baseline: the record landed on provenanceerasure.org the same day (commit 8a9f153) and no card cites it. NEW address.","s":"Machine Reception","surface":"Google AI Overview","transcript":"[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:'.]\n\n[QUERENT] WikiWho\n\n[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.\nWikipedia +3\nKey Details\n\n* Founding: Launched in 2005 by internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick with the mission to build the world's most helpful how-to instructions.\nFastly +1\n* Content: Contains over 100,000 articles covering diverse topics, created and audited through research, collaboration, and expert input from thousands of credentialed professionals\n.\nwikiHow +2\n* Structure: Organized into 19 top-level categories spanning health, computing, finance, relationships, and more, available across multiple international languages.\nwikiHow +1\n\nYou can browse all topics and articles directly on the [wikiHow Category Listing](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESZwHrOzAVth45M8Vz7tvIVYWUcRQdteyhs-hhrYsXx0ifOt2q78hzQ9ybgtmkeXQQdRn6IDId3Jd0gok_vpuNUUwoQo_uXeGSmra94DH9CxZol53Wi0iYoXqIkRzMc7ZQ6VMAfumcK34).\nIf you'd like, let me know:\n\n* A specific topic or question you are trying to research\n* Whether you want help finding a particular guide\n\nI can help locate or summarize the instructions you need.","transcript_class":"CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview as shown, with its source chips","transcript_complete":"complete as supplied","transcript_raw":"[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.\nWikipedia +3\nKey Details\n\n* Founding: Launched in 2005 by internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick with the mission to build the world's most helpful how-to instructions.\nFastly +1\n* Content: Contains over 100,000 articles covering diverse topics, created and audited through research, collaboration, and expert input from thousands of credentialed professionals\n.\nwikiHow +2\n* Structure: Organized into 19 top-level categories spanning health, computing, finance, relationships, and more, available across multiple international languages.\nwikiHow +1\n\nYou can browse all topics and articles directly on the [wikiHow Category Listing](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESZwHrOzAVth45M8Vz7tvIVYWUcRQdteyhs-hhrYsXx0ifOt2q78hzQ9ybgtmkeXQQdRn6IDId3Jd0gok_vpuNUUwoQo_uXeGSmra94DH9CxZol53Wi0iYoXqIkRzMc7ZQ6VMAfumcK34).\nIf you'd like, let me know:\n\n* A specific topic or question you are trying to research\n* Whether you want help finding a particular guide\n\nI can help locate or summarize the instructions you need.","transcript_read":"READ IN FULL 2026-10-29","turns":1},"slug":"wikiwho-aio-20261029"}