Chapter 1. Building a comparable corpus of online discussions on Wikipedia

Abstract

This chapter presents the EFG WikiCorpus, a corpus composed of all the talk pages dedicated to (co)writing an article in the English, French and German Wikipedias. This chapter explains the place of talk pages in Wikipedia and describes what is the basic structure of a talk page before detailing the building process of the EFG WikiCorpus: from the Wikipedia archives to a TEI resource encoded according to the TEI CMC-core schema. It concludes with a quantitative overview of the EFG WikiCorpus and the EFG WikiDemoCorpus, a derived subcorpus used for qualitative analyses in various contributions of this volume.