Welcome to WikiDeal
💡 In simple words: WikiDeal is a place where people can make fair deals together. It's like Wikipedia, but for contracts and marketplaces. Everyone who uses it helps decide how it works.
🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards a hypothesis that digital marketplaces can be governed as commons through cooperative models combining Wikipedia-style open contribution, commission-based economics, and community-driven value distribution. This approach suggests emerging trends in decentralized platform governance that challenge traditional marketplace ownership structures.
October 2026 — Legal groundwork secured for a redistributive, non-speculative funding model
Over the past weeks, WikiDeal has advanced its legal work to secure a more specific legal basis for its funding — no small feat. The result is a funding model that is redistributive and non-speculative: financial contributors gain no control over WikiDeal, there is no jackpot, and no shareholders.
Just as important: this legal framework will not only serve to fund WikiDeal. It can also support migrations — enabling many communities to join the WikiDeal platform on solid legal and community foundations. Learn about community migrations →
Follow the recent changes to see the work happening live.
Our founding question
WikiDeal is, at its core, a research and development project that explores one question:
Our answer is: yes, but only if the governance model is radically different. This means combining the principles of digital commons (like Wikipedia), a cooperative commission model, and community-driven value distribution. The pages below document how we propose to make that work.
What Wikipedia did for knowledge and W3C standards did for the web, WikiDeal aims to explore for agreements. Beyond crowdfunding: WikiDeal explores crowdsourcing and cooperative co-ownership of an ecosystem of agreements, under free licences, applicable to every domain, starting with niches and aiming at global reach (a new form of co-opetition).
Explore the work
- 🚀 Get started: how to read and contribute (Onboarding)
- 🏛️ Governance & R&D: the full governance and research program
- 💡 Innovations: the socio-economic innovations behind WikiDeal
- 💸 Economy & funding: subscriptions, rewards and the funding model
- 🛒 Markets: the marketplaces and contract models, with a Contribute section to get involved
- 👥 Community portal · 🔄 Recent changes
What is WikiDeal?
WikiDeal is a community providing models of contracts and a marketplace to make deals using these contracts.
Like on Wikipedia, you can freely access, edit and adapt these contracts, for any context and needs. Each contract model is connected to a community of users dedicated to improving the contract model, and the marketplace associated with it.
A common owned by its users
Users can contribute to developing the platform's technology, legal support and new marketplaces. Coaching to design and adapt deals, mediation & arbitration for fair compensation...
WikiDeal adopts the highest standards on ethics, privacy, customer support, free licensing, low costs and high efficiency, inspired by the participatory governance of Wikipedia and free software projects.
Message from the Founder
"WikiDeal Prototype 1 represents a first hypothesis, built on decades of experience in digital commons, platform cooperativism, and internet governance. It is not a finished product, but a solid starting point, deliberately open to collective improvement. The model is grounded in what we know works: free licensing, community governance, at-cost Commissions, and transparent algorithms. I look forward to seeing the community improve on every aspect of it, and I welcome proposals that challenge any element of the current design." — Théo Bondolfi, founder. About the founder & his work →
Learn more
- Markets
- User groups
- About the WikiDeal project
- Category:Contract Models
Recent activity — WikiDeal in the field
September 2026 — WikiDeal at Wikimania (Wikipedia's 25th anniversary)
Two WikiDeal delegates took part in Wikimania, celebrating Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, where they ran hands-on workshops. One of these workshops was held on Thursday, 24 September 2026 in Neuchâtel, at COffice, an incubator for decentralized digital projects around crypto and blockchain.
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