Figure 8

War scenarios for WP and our model. Top: Empirical controversy measure M as a function of the number of article edits in three different war scenarios. From left to right, sample articles are ‘Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy’, ‘Iran’, and ‘Barack Obama’; and correspond to the regimes of ‘single war’, ‘war-peace cycles’, and ‘never-ending war’ respectively. Bottom: Theoretical conflict measure S in the case of agent renewal, reproducing the qualitatively analogue evolution of WP articles with parameter values $N=640$, ${ϵ}_T=0.2$ and ${\mu }_A=0.1$, as well as ${ϵ}_A=0.35,0.42,0.30$ and $p_{\text{new}}=0.001,0.001,0.002$ for the three war scenarios, respectively. Continuous lines correspond to selected single runs of the model, while the shading indicates the density of S over an ensemble of 10⁴ realizations.