Investigating Wikipedia

This chapter presents five epistemic regimes we defined for characterizing the conception of “truth” that underpin debates 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 annotation of 324 posts ex