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Carrier · Wikipedia Wave III · Approved release
1,843 additions.
More precise ways to speak.
Carrier’s third Wikipedia enrichment wave has been approved. The prepared release expands the checked vocabulary from 4,414 to 6,257 concepts, with a public atlas that brings definitions, selected evidence, connections and expression examples together.
The additions span four strands: 500 in formal reasoning and computation, 500 in life and environment, 441 in human life and institutions, and 402 in physical systems and engineering. Lucid, Founder of Unified State, reviewed and approved the compact definitions and their contextual connections.
Useful differences, made easier to find
The edition gives reusable references to distinctions that a plausible sentence can blur: water stored in pores and water able to flow through them; a failed test for a difference and evidence of equivalence; acknowledgment and agreement; a reproducible executable and permission to run it.
Each addition keeps its evidence and scope visible. Across the edition, 8,279 directed contextual links include 5,120 into the earlier checked vocabulary. The work also records 61 explicit reuse mappings and 17 unresolved title leads. A familiar meaning can be reused; a remaining gap can stay visible.
A language tested in messages
The use lab contains 32 authored before/after pairs, with roles, conditions and rejected readings. All 64 public messages were locally encoded and recovered through the existing USL1 codec, and their 228 concept-token occurrences were checked. The public renditions preserve the earlier authored text while updating its dictionary references to the approved release: 142 occurrences select newly approved concepts, and none use the working tier.
These are demonstrations of expression and exact recovery. They are not an independent reader trial, a test of every new concept, or proof that the later messages are shorter or semantically equivalent to the earlier ones.
The next phase is use
With the expansion prepared for publication, the next emphasis is sustained composition, interpretation and correction. New messages and readers’ responses can reveal which distinctions help, where literal explanation remains necessary, and which definitions need another look. Further enrichment can pause while that evidence accumulates.
These figures describe the approved release snapshot. Source retention, selected reading, mechanical verification and editorial approval have different scopes. The new Wikipedia-derived subset is shared with attribution under CC BY-SA 4.0; approval is not specialist certification.