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 {{KidsIntro|WikiDeal is built to be handed over to the people who use it, not kept by its founders. Like a treehouse the builders give to the whole neighbourhood.}}
+{{ExpertIntro|Exit to Community (E2C) is the progressive transfer of a platform's governance, ownership and value to its user community. WikiDeal adapts the concept to a donation-based model: attractive for donations with rewards, while clearly not an investment, legally non-speculative. It forms one whole with Deprivatization and the Rewards mechanism, and the combination of the bonding curve and Need-Driven Funding creates a self-regulation that makes it much less speculative.}}
+{{ArticleSummary|
+* [[#what-is-it|What is it?]]
+* [[#donations-not-investment|Attractive for donations, not an investment]]
+* [[#one-whole|One whole with Deprivatization and Rewards]]
+* [[#how-it-works|How it works on WikiDeal]]
+* [[#state-of-the-art|State of the art]]
+}}
+__NOTOC__
-== Exit to Community ==
+= Exit to Community =
-''Innovation — WikiDeal R&D''
+''Innovation, WikiDeal R&D''
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 | Origin || 🟣 Cooperative Movement (Nathan Schneider)
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-| Status || Prototype 1 — In testing
+| Status || Deployed (written into the contracts; July 2026, proposal)
 |}
-=== What is it? ===
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-Exit to Community (E2C) is the progressive transfer of a platform's governance, ownership, and value from its founders and early contributors to the user community itself. WikiDeal is designed as an E2C programme from inception — it is built to be handed over rather than held, accumulated, or sold to outside buyers.
+== What is it? ==
+Exit to Community (E2C) is the progressive transfer of a platform's governance, ownership, and value from its founders and early contributors to the user community itself. WikiDeal is designed as an E2C programme from inception: it is built to be handed over rather than held, accumulated, or sold to outside buyers. It is considered deployed, since it is written into the contracts.
+<span id="donations-not-investment"></span>
+== Attractive for donations, not an investment ==
+WikiDeal adapts the concept of ownership by the users: the model aims at being '''attractive for donations with rewards, while clearly not being an investment'''. It is intended to be '''legally non-speculative and structurally attractive for donations'''. Rewards, if any, depend on the project working; there are no guarantees, no shares and no share resale.
+<span id="one-whole"></span>
+== One whole with Deprivatization and Rewards ==
+Exit to Community forms one whole with [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Deprivatization|Deprivatization]] and the [[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Rewards|Rewards]] mechanism. The combination of the [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Bonding Curve|bonding curve]] and [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Need-Driven Funding|Need-Driven Funding]] creates a '''self-regulation''' that makes Exit to Community much less speculative: based only on real flows and real needs. The whole rests on the organic deployment of a community, not on financial engineering.
+<span id="how-it-works"></span>
+== How it works on WikiDeal ==
-=== How it works on WikiDeal ===
 Governance and control are structured to shift toward users over time, so the community gradually becomes the steward of the platform. This shapes funding, decision rights, and long-term direction from the start. The concrete milestones of the handover are documented progressively as the platform evolves.
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-'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]]
+<span id="state-of-the-art"></span>
+== State of the art ==
+The Exit to Community hypothesis builds directly on published work about transferring ownership and governance to users and employees. The references below document that research lineage.
+* Nathan Schneider et al. (2020), ''Exit to Community: A Community Primer'', Media Economies Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder: [https://e2c.how/ official site] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Schneider Nathan Schneider on Wikipedia].
+* Morshed Mannan and Nathan Schneider (2021), ''Exit to Community: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy'', Georgetown Law Technology Review, 5(1): [https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/nmyxp doi:10.31219/osf.io/nmyxp].
+* Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse (2013), ''The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century'', Yale University Press: [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300196320/the-citizens-share/ publisher page].
+* Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler (1958), ''The Capitalist Manifesto'', Random House: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capitalist_Manifesto book page on Wikipedia] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership employee stock ownership on Wikipedia].
+* Henry Hansmann (1996), ''The Ownership of Enterprise'', Harvard University Press: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hansmann author page on Wikipedia].
+'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Deprivatization|Deprivatization]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Rewards|Rewards]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Need-Driven Funding|Need-Driven Funding]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]]
 [[Category:Migration June 2026]]
+[[Category:Innovation]]
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