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{{KidsIntro|Who decides things at WikiDeal? Everyone can help write the rules, like on Wikipedia: you do not need to win an election to propose a good idea. Groups of users send delegates to a big assembly, and that assembly chooses small teams of 5, 7 or 11 people to run things. For money, the rule is simple: services should cost what they really cost, and what is left over goes back to the community.}}

{{KidsIntro|Who decides things at WikiDeal? Everyone can help write the rules, like on Wikipedia: you do not need to win an election to propose a good idea. Groups of users send delegates to a big assembly, and that assembly chooses small teams of 5, 7 or 9 people to run things. For money, the rule is simple: services should cost what they really cost, and what is left over goes back to the community.}}

{{ExpertIntro|Proposed decision-making model of WikiDeal, offered as a basis for discussion. Legislative: entirely open, Wikipedia-style; anyone bringing solutions can propose and evolve the rules, no election needed to legislate. Agenda and elections: an assembly of delegates, formed by delegates of the user groups and by users who entrust their voting right to a delegate; delegates act as facilitators, advisers and WikiDeal resource persons, and the assembly elects the executives. Executive: collegial councils of 5, 7 or 11 members depending on scale, at each of the three levels (User Groups, Rings of Trust, global governance), with 11 envisaged at the global level. Voting: the method matches the decision, up to Condorcet ballots for complex cases (see the Voting portal). Money: at-cost management and redistribution, in the cooperative tradition.}}

{{ExpertIntro|Proposed decision-making model of WikiDeal, offered as a basis for discussion. Legislative: entirely open, Wikipedia-style; anyone bringing solutions can propose and evolve the rules, no election needed to legislate. Agenda and elections: an assembly of delegates, formed by delegates of the user groups and by users who entrust their voting right to a delegate; delegates act as facilitators, advisers and WikiDeal resource persons, and the assembly elects the executives. Executive: collegial councils of 5, 7 or 9 members depending on scale, at each of the three levels (User Groups, Rings of Trust, global governance), with 9 envisaged at the global level, the exact figure remaining open. Voting: the method matches the decision, up to Condorcet ballots for complex cases (see the Voting portal). Money: at-cost management and redistribution, in the cooperative tradition.}}

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| Agenda and elections || The assembly of delegates || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative Cooperative] delegate assemblies, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assembly_(Switzerland) Swiss Federal Assembly]

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| Operational direction, at each level || Collegial executives of 5, 7 or 11 members || The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council Swiss Federal Council] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorial_system directorial system]

| Operational direction, at each level || Collegial executives of 5, 7 or 9 members || The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council Swiss Federal Council] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorial_system directorial system]

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| Complex multi-option choices || Voters, through [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method Condorcet]-style ballots where justified || [[Gov/en/Portal:Voting/Condorcet-History|Wikimedia and Debian practice]]

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== Collegial executives: 5, 7 or 11 members ==

== Collegial executives: 5, 7 or 9 members ==

Executive power is intended to be '''collegial''' at every level, never in the hands of one person, following the Swiss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorial_system directorial system] and its culture of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiality collegiality]. Three levels are envisaged, mirroring the Swiss institutional structure (communes, cantons, Confederation; the analogy is detailed on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page):

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# '''global governance''' (the Confederation, the country).

Each level would have a collegial executive of '''5, 7 or 11 members, depending on the scale''' of what it governs. At the global level, the working hypothesis is '''11 members''' (the reasoning behind that number, including a Swiss anecdote about the 7-member [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council Federal Council], is given on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page). The executives would be '''elected by the assembly of delegates'''.

Each level would have a collegial executive of '''5, 7 or 9 members, depending on the scale''' of what it governs. At the global level, the working hypothesis is '''9 members''', a number estimated for a country-scale institution; the exact figure remains open, the principle being an odd, manageable group size drawn from existing institutional experience (the reasoning behind that number, including a Swiss anecdote about the 7-member [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council Federal Council], is given on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page). The executives would be '''elected by the assembly of delegates'''.