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''Neutral model for WikiDeal market portals. WikiDeal concept ([[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Licensing-and-Credits|credits]]).''

= Market Portal Model =

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== Purpose ==

Every WikiDeal market portal is intended to follow one shared structure, so that a user who has learned one market can find their way in any other. This page and its nine subpages form that structure, with neutral example content in each section. A new market (babysitting, small loans, pet sitting, housing, and so on) starts from this model: copy the nine sections, replace the neutral examples with market-specific content, keep the section names and their order.

The model starts from a simple idea: a contract is not a single document but a small ecosystem. Around the contract text live alerts, amendments, legal references, statistics, follow-up messages, quality criteria, packaged versions and tutorials. A portal that offers only the contract text leaves users alone at every difficult moment. A portal that offers all nine sections accompanies them from first contact to final signature and beyond.

== The nine sections ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
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! # !! Section !! What it holds
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| 1 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Contract-Base:Model|Contract]] || The base contract model: preamble clauses, substance clauses, annexes. Every clause carries an optional pedagogical commentary: why it makes sense, its advantages, risks and limits.
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| 2 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Alerts:Model|Alerts]] || Short messages sent when a contract needs attention: deadlines, late payments, safety issues, pending signatures.
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| 3 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Amendments-and-Addenda:Model|Amendments and addenda]] || How a living contract changes: amendments modify existing clauses, addenda add new elements. Templates for both.
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| 4 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Legal-References:Model|Legal references]] || Applicable legal texts, quoted and linked, organized by country and language, with plain-language notes.
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| 5 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Statistics:Model|Statistics]] || Anonymized usage statistics showing trends, ordered from the most important indicator to the least important.
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| 6 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Follow-Up-Messages:Model|Follow-up messages]] || Message templates for before, during and after the contract: proposals, reminders, alternatives, renegotiation, closing.
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| 7 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Quality-Criteria:Model|Quality criteria]] || Measurable standards the market community sets for itself: process, service, safety, satisfaction, dispute handling.
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| 8 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Contracts-in-Action:Model|Contracts in action]] || Packaged contracts for apps and platforms: fixed parameters plus predefined variables, intended to be validated by lawyers.
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| 9 || [[Markets/en/Portal:Model/Tutorials:Model|Tutorials]] || User guides to carry a contract through to success: educational, funny, spectacular. Run by a tutorial sub-community that can organize its own open calls.
|}

== How to instantiate the model ==

# Choose a short, popular portal name (one or two everyday words) and a full descriptive name.
# Create <code>Markets/en/Portal:&lt;Name&gt;/Main</code> with the market's story: the real-life problem, who the parties are, what trust mechanisms apply.
# Create the nine subpages, following the naming pattern <code>Markets/en/Portal:&lt;Name&gt;/&lt;Section&gt;:&lt;Name&gt;</code>.
# Replace the neutral examples of each section with market-specific content. Keep every clause commentary honest: state risks and limits, not only advantages.
# Mark every draft as a draft. Contract clauses and packaged contracts are intended to be reviewed and validated by lawyers before any operational use.
# Mark every figure that is not measured as illustrative.

== Editorial rules ==

* '''Drafts stay drafts.''' Nothing on a portal is legal advice. Clauses, packages and legal notes are working material, intended to be validated by lawyers.
* '''Say which data you mean.''' Variables typed into a contract (names, amounts, addresses) are private by default. Aggregated anonymized statistics and contract states (signed, completed, in dispute) are published by design.
* '''Short beats filler.''' A clause with a three-line commentary that names a real risk is worth more than a page of generalities.
* '''Both sides of every clause.''' Each pedagogical commentary answers four questions: why the clause makes sense, what it protects, what risks remain, where it stops helping.

== See also ==

* [[Markets/en/Portal:All Portals/Contract-Structures|Contract structures]]: the state and transition framework behind every contract
* [[Markets/en/Portal:Babysitting/Main|Babysitting portal]]: the first pilot
* [[Markets/en/Portal:Small Loans/Main|Small Loans portal]]: the first portal instantiated from this model
* [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Call:Main|Open Calls]]

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