SELECTION
Start from a pinned live Carrier snapshot and a broad inventory of Wikipedia Vital Articles Level 4. Manually curate a foundation-oriented topic queue, adding useful subjects beyond that list. Priority labels guide acquisition; they are editorial judgments, not a validated universal ranking.

SOURCEACQUISITION
Use the official English Wikipedia Action API with bounded sequential requests, maxlag and retry/backoff. Retain exact revision wikitext and captured HTML requested by that revision ID. The article revision does not pin every historical template or transclusion; the actual rendered capture and reading bytes have their own hashes. This is a selected local corpus, not a full encyclopedia dump.

EXTRACTION
Produce a normalized reading of paragraphs and list items, joining layout whitespace and omitting navigation, tables and reference/end-matter sections. Preserve the complete wikitext and HTML. Evidence offsets are UTF-8 half-open spans in the normalized reading, not offsets in original wikitext.

SEMANTICREVIEW
AI readers author compact definitions and examine the cited retained units. Some definitions are drafted provisionally from subject knowledge before source comparison and are then revised or excluded. Full source retention does not imply every paragraph was read. Source wording, proposed definition, scope note and links remain separately inspectable.

NOVELTY
Compare names and meanings against the checked inventory; retain explicit reuse decisions and nearest-neighbour review leads. Similarity searches assist review and do not prove universal novelty. A broader foundational definition may complement an existing source-scoped distinction when their meanings differ. Source titles preserve exact identity: ACID and Acid are distinct. Shared-article concept ambiguities require an explicit editorial target or an exact concept-name match.

CONNECTIONS
Untyped contextual new/new links are stored on the later admitted entry. Authored proposal direction and qualification remain in the edge catalog. Referenced by is derived navigation, not endorsement or entailment.

REVIEW
All additions remain checked:false in a local working state. Review decisions are pinned to this edition and its base/draft heads. Approval covers each compact definition and its displayed contextual links; it does not approve every statement in the Wikipedia article. No publication or promotion happens from merely exporting decisions.

LICENSING
Wikipedia contributors and AI-authored adaptations in this new subset: CC BY-SA 4.0. Modifications are compact definitions, selection and proposed links. Per-article revision/history attribution is retained. Existing Carrier records retain their prior terms.

LIMITS
No claim of exhaustive Wikipedia or subject coverage.
No complete-article or full-encyclopedia inspection claim.
No primary-literature audit of every Wikipedia assertion.
Specialist, medical, legal and policy entries are descriptive concepts, not case-specific advice.
No live Carrier write or new transmission experiment.
The inherited LEGACY_ID_HISTORY warning for w3–w9 is preserved; no old ID is reused in this edition.
