Talk page data already underpins research on social phenomena such as conversational behavior (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al., 2012, 2013, disputes (Wang and Cardie, 2014b), antisocial behavior (Wulczyn et al., 2017;Zhang et al., 2018) and collaboration (Kittur et al., 2007;Halfaker et al., 2009).
the scope of such studies has so far been limited by a view of the conversation that is incomplete in two crucial ways: first, it only captures a subset of all discussions; and second, it only accounts for the final form of each conversation, which frequently differs from the interlocutors experience as the conversation develops.