Message du troisi{\`e}me type : irruption d'un tiers dans un dialogue en ligne

TL;DR

This study analyzes the role of third-party interventions in multiparty Wikipedia talk discussions, focusing on their lexical features and interaction patterns to understand their influence on online dialogue dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of third participant messages in Wikipedia talk pages, introducing a typology of their roles and examining their interaction with preceding messages.

Findings

Identified distinct roles of third-party messages in discussions

Characterized lexical features of third messages

Proposed a typology of third participant roles

Abstract

Our study focuses on Wikipedia talk pages, from a global perspective analyzing contributors' behaviors in online interactions. Using a corpus comprising all Wikipedia talk pages in French, totaling more than 300,000 discussion threads, we examine how discussions with more than two participants (multiparty conversation) unfold and we specifically investigate the role of a third participant's intervention when two Wikipedians have already initiated an exchange. In this regard, we concentrate on the sequential structure of these interactions in terms of articulation among different participants and aim to specify this third message by exploring its lexical particularities, while also proposing an initial typology of the third participant's message role and how it aligns with preceding messages.