Epistemic community

Epistemic community is a large network of people who work towards a common knowledge-based goal—like the community of people who work together to create and maintain Wikipedia.
An epistemic community is a group of people who do not have any specific history together. They join to form a kind of community based on a similar focus on an information-based project. 
The community group can be made of people with a range of special interests.
This kind of community has four characteristics or typical features:
The shared explanations for how the community functions includes "the appalling silence of good people", which encourages the growth of perverse incentives.
An example of a scientific epistemic community is the 1975 Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP). This is a marine pollution control regime for the Mediterranean Sea developed by the United Nations.