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Chapter 9. To each their own truth

Epistemic regimes on Wikipedia talk pages
  • Guillaume Carbou , Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac , Céline Poudat and Gilles Sahut
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Abstract

This chapter presents five we defined for characterizing the conception of “truth” that underpin amongst Wikipedian editors on talk pages. The chapter starts by defining each epistemic regime and how it could be understood according to the Wikipedia rules. Then, we propose a method to evaluate the operationality of these regimes from a corpus standpoint and to analyse to what extent these regimes are adopted by Wikipedians. The analysis of the of 324 posts extracted from the French WikiDemoCorpus largely supports our epistemic model and provides new insights into the ideological backgrounds of Wikipedians.

Abstract

This chapter presents five we defined for characterizing the conception of “truth” that underpin amongst Wikipedian editors on talk pages. The chapter starts by defining each epistemic regime and how it could be understood according to the Wikipedia rules. Then, we propose a method to evaluate the operationality of these regimes from a corpus standpoint and to analyse to what extent these regimes are adopted by Wikipedians. The analysis of the of 324 posts extracted from the French WikiDemoCorpus largely supports our epistemic model and provides new insights into the ideological backgrounds of Wikipedians.

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Building Wikipedia corpora
  5. Chapter 1. Building a comparable corpus of online discussions on Wikipedia 12
  6. Chapter 2. Mining parallel corpora from Wikipedia 45
  7. Part II. Interactions on Wikipedia talk pages
  8. Chapter 3. Exploring interactions in Wikipedia talk pages 76
  9. Chapter 4. Investigating reply relations on Wikipedia talk pages to reconstruct interactional strategies of Wikipedia authors 107
  10. Chapter 5. Sockpuppets , Wikifants, and Honeypots 134
  11. Part III. Visualizing and exploring cooperation and conflicts in Wikipedia
  12. Chapter 6. Exploring the evolution of Wikipedia articles through Contropedia 156
  13. Chapter 7. Live exploration of Wikipedia editing dynamics with visual analytics 178
  14. Chapter 8. Disagreements and conflicts in Wikipedia talk pages 205
  15. Chapter 9. To each their own truth 235
  16. Index 263
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.121.09car

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Building Wikipedia corpora
  5. Chapter 1. Building a comparable corpus of online discussions on Wikipedia 12
  6. Chapter 2. Mining parallel corpora from Wikipedia 45
  7. Part II. Interactions on Wikipedia talk pages
  8. Chapter 3. Exploring interactions in Wikipedia talk pages 76
  9. Chapter 4. Investigating reply relations on Wikipedia talk pages to reconstruct interactional strategies of Wikipedia authors 107
  10. Chapter 5. Sockpuppets , Wikifants, and Honeypots 134
  11. Part III. Visualizing and exploring cooperation and conflicts in Wikipedia
  12. Chapter 6. Exploring the evolution of Wikipedia articles through Contropedia 156
  13. Chapter 7. Live exploration of Wikipedia editing dynamics with visual analytics 178
  14. Chapter 8. Disagreements and conflicts in Wikipedia talk pages 205
  15. Chapter 9. To each their own truth 235
  16. Index 263
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