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.

June 2026 - A new step begins : the pre-launch publication phase

WikiDeal is entering a new phase. The project stays exactly the same in its mission; what changes is that we are now publishing the governance, economy and research work that has been developed, so it can be read, discussed and improved.

This is a pre-community-opening publication: the content below is shared ahead of the community opening. It is not yet open for participation: soon there will be news with concrete opportunities to take part. Everything published in this phase is documented openly and marked as not yet approved while it is under review.

Follow the recent changes to see the migration happening live.

Our founding question

WikiDeal is, at its core, a research and development project that explores one question:

Can users own, run and sustain a global marketplace?

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." Source: see project credits

Learn more

• Markets
• User groups
• About the WikiDeal project
  • About
  • Development
  • Key Features
  • Minimum Viable Product
  • Principles
  • Services
  • Copyrights and licensing
• Category:Contract Models

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