Latest revision as of 16:50, 5 July 2026

💡 In simple words: Lawyers can help WikiDeal write and check its agreements so they are safe and follow the law. This page explains how to start helping.

🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): Entry page for legal professionals: relevant areas of expertise (contracts, governance, intellectual property, privacy, mediation and arbitration, financial regulation) and the current way to get involved. There is no selection filter: open participation currently takes place in the Markets space, where one role envisaged for lawyers is the approval of contract templates (recognizing them as functional and freezing the approved version). Contributing to governance, policies and institutions goes through a simple contact step (info@wikideal.net) to request administration rights, granted case by case.

Contribute as a Legal Professional

Help draft the future of cooperative law. WikiDeal contracts are intended to govern concrete situations: work agreements between peers, revenue sharing, responsibilities between the parties, all without relying on blockchain. The intention is to keep commissions low, both for the general platform and for the user group that provides the specific service associated with a contract validated by a lawyer. Legal experts are invited to draft, review and validate contract templates and new service portals across different jurisdictions.

Areas of legal expertise

Contract law and employment
Corporate governance and foundations
Intellectual property and libre licensing
Data privacy and GDPR
Mediation and arbitration
Financial regulation

How to get involved

There is no filter and no selection process: you can start right away.

At this stage, open participation takes place in the Markets space, where anyone can propose use cases, contract templates and complete structures. One role envisaged for legal professionals is the approval of contract templates. The approach explored is the following: a lawyer who presents himself or herself as competent can recognize a template as functional and freeze the approved version directly on the wiki, seeking wherever possible the endorsement of other lawyers. The commitment envisaged is that of practicing lawyers (attorneys) declaring, in substance: I am ready to defend this contract template in this jurisdiction, as long as its key clauses are not modified and the context does not change (for example, a signatory who turns out to lack signing capacity).

Approval would create a fixed version. The wiki makes this possible technically: readers can see which versions were approved and by which lawyer, and an approved version cannot be modified at all afterwards. In parallel, the contract itself stays alive: third parties can keep proposing updates and new versions, and the endorsing lawyer may later recognize further versions.

Once a template is approved, organizations could build specific applications on it (smartphone apps, for example) in direct follow-up with the lawyer, who double-checks that the specific application has not altered the validity of the contract: termination clauses, figures, fairness of treatment. Amendments, modifications and compensatory measures could also be reviewed with the lawyer or with other groups, to adapt each contract to a specific user group.

A related line of work envisaged is the merging of clauses, so that similar clauses are not dispersed across several templates. The aim is templates as generic as possible, while preventing conflicts between clauses, since complexity can open breaches. All of this is still taking shape and is proposed as a basis for discussion.

The rest of the platform (governance, policies, institutions, everything outside the Markets) can currently be edited only by people holding administration rights. If you would like to take part in that work, the first step proposed is to identify yourself and contact us at info@wikideal.net, so that these rights can be granted by an administrator, after analysis and case by case (see the criteria envisaged).

When you write to us, share your bar association or licensing body, your primary jurisdiction(s), your working languages, and how you would contribute to WikiDeal's legal framework.

For the broader picture, including the planned integration webinars, see Get started: how to contribute.

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-{{ExpertIntro|Entry page for legal professionals: relevant areas of expertise (contracts, governance, intellectual property, privacy, mediation and arbitration, financial regulation) and the current way to get involved. There is no selection filter: open participation currently takes place in the Markets space, where one role envisaged for lawyers is the approval of contract templates (recognizing them as functional and freezing the approved version). Contributing to governance, policies and institutions goes through a simple contact step (info@wikideal.net) to receive administration rights.}}
+{{ExpertIntro|Entry page for legal professionals: relevant areas of expertise (contracts, governance, intellectual property, privacy, mediation and arbitration, financial regulation) and the current way to get involved. There is no selection filter: open participation currently takes place in the Markets space, where one role envisaged for lawyers is the approval of contract templates (recognizing them as functional and freezing the approved version). Contributing to governance, policies and institutions goes through a simple contact step (info@wikideal.net) to request administration rights, granted case by case.}}
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 = Contribute as a Legal Professional =
-'''Help draft the future of cooperative law.''' WikiDeal contracts are intended to govern peer-to-peer labor, decentralized treasury sharing, and algorithmic liability without relying on blockchain. We are looking for legal experts to draft, review, and validate new service portals across different jurisdictions.
+'''Help draft the future of cooperative law.''' WikiDeal contracts are intended to govern concrete situations: work agreements between peers, revenue sharing, responsibilities between the parties, all without relying on blockchain. The intention is to keep commissions low, both for the general platform and for the user group that provides the specific service associated with a contract validated by a lawyer. Legal experts are invited to draft, review and validate contract templates and new service portals across different jurisdictions.
 == Areas of legal expertise ==
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 There is no filter and no selection process: you can start right away.
-At this stage, open participation takes place in the [[Markets/en/Portal:All Portals/Main|Markets]] space, where anyone can propose use cases, contract templates and complete structures. One role envisaged for legal professionals is the approval of contract templates: recognizing a template as functional and freezing the approved version, so that it is protected against modification. This process is still taking shape and is proposed as a basis for discussion.
+At this stage, open participation takes place in the [[Markets/en/Portal:All Portals/Main|Markets]] space, where anyone can propose use cases, contract templates and complete structures. One role envisaged for legal professionals is the approval of contract templates. The approach explored is the following: a lawyer who presents himself or herself as competent can recognize a template as functional and freeze the approved version directly on the wiki, seeking wherever possible the endorsement of other lawyers. The commitment envisaged is that of practicing lawyers (attorneys) declaring, in substance: I am ready to defend this contract template in this jurisdiction, as long as its key clauses are not modified and the context does not change (for example, a signatory who turns out to lack signing capacity).
-The rest of the platform (governance, policies, institutions, everything outside the Markets) can currently be edited only by people holding administration rights. If you would like to take part in that work, the first step proposed is to identify yourself and contact us at info@wikideal.net, so that these rights can be granted to you.
+Approval would create a fixed version. The wiki makes this possible technically: readers can see which versions were approved and by which lawyer, and an approved version cannot be modified at all afterwards. In parallel, the contract itself stays alive: third parties can keep proposing updates and new versions, and the endorsing lawyer may later recognize further versions.
+Once a template is approved, organizations could build specific applications on it (smartphone apps, for example) in direct follow-up with the lawyer, who double-checks that the specific application has not altered the validity of the contract: termination clauses, figures, fairness of treatment. Amendments, modifications and compensatory measures could also be reviewed with the lawyer or with other groups, to adapt each contract to a specific user group.
+A related line of work envisaged is the merging of clauses, so that similar clauses are not dispersed across several templates. The aim is templates as generic as possible, while preventing conflicts between clauses, since complexity can open breaches. All of this is still taking shape and is proposed as a basis for discussion.
+The rest of the platform (governance, policies, institutions, everything outside the Markets) can currently be edited only by people holding administration rights. If you would like to take part in that work, the first step proposed is to identify yourself and contact us at info@wikideal.net, so that these rights can be granted by an administrator, after analysis and case by case (see the [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/How-to-Contribute#beyond-markets|criteria envisaged]]).
 When you write to us, share your bar association or licensing body, your primary jurisdiction(s), your working languages, and how you would contribute to WikiDeal's legal framework.
-For the broader picture, including the planned webinars, see [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/How-to-Contribute|Get started: how to contribute]].
+For the broader picture, including the planned [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Integration-Webinar|integration webinars]], see [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/How-to-Contribute|Get started: how to contribute]].
 == See also ==
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 * [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Contribute-Developer|Contribute as a developer]]
 * [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Contribute-Researcher|Contribute as a researcher]]
+* [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Contribute-Marketer|Contribute as a marketer]]
+* [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Contribute-Policy-Maker|Contribute as a policy maker]]
 * [[Gov/en/Portal:Legal/Legal-Accessibility|Legal accessibility and digital fairness]]
+* [[Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Integration-Webinar|Integration Webinar]]
 [[Category:Migration June 2026]]
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