Kerry Raymond, 16/09/2018 12:27:
Some time in the last few months (possibly at Wikimania) someone pointed me at some research about predicting the outcome of Wikipedia consensus building from the language they were using in Talk.
Maybe these? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/January#Admins_influence_the_language_of_non-admins https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/May#A_new_algorithmic_tool_for_analyzing_rationales_on_articles_for_deletion
This one interested me the most (Centre Stage: How Social Network Position Shapes Linguistic Coordination, by Bill Noble and Raquel Fernández): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/May#Talking_like_an_admin:_linguistic_mimicry_and_network_centrality_on_Wikipedia
It shows how one gains influence in the English Wikipedia by adopting the dominant language and language style. I onserve similar patterns in other language editions, it would be great to repeat the study on other Wikipedias.
Federico