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💡 In simple words: WikiDeal wants to test its fair contracts in real life. These small test projects are called pilots. Three pilots have been chosen to start: babysitting, street fundraising, and small loans between people. Many other ideas are candidates: they are being studied, and could become pilots later.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): Pilot use cases are the real-world experiments through which Prototype 1 is intended to demonstrate the WikiDeal model in practice. Pilots can address any domain: the model is domain-neutral. Three use cases are currently retained: Babysitting (the model pilot, simple and studied first), Street Fundraising, and Peer-to-Peer Small Loans (pre-selected within Prototype 1). All other tracks are candidate pilots under study, a list intended to grow: Real Estate Restoration and the AI-Driven Politician Agreement are the first documented examples. The delivery targets of the pilots are defined in Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables.

Pilot use cases

What is a pilot use case

A pilot use case is a real-world experiment: a marketplace domain where WikiDeal contracts, governance and economic mechanisms are intended to be tested with actual users. Pilots can address any domain: the model itself is domain-neutral. The framework for these experiments is Prototype 1, and their delivery targets are defined in Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables.

Two categories must be clearly distinguished:

Selected pilots: the pilot experiments retained for Prototype 1: Babysitting, Street Fundraising, and the pre-selected Peer-to-Peer Small Loans.
Candidate pilots under study: ideas documented and explored, but not selected. They could become pilots later.

Selected pilots

Babysitting: the model pilot

Babysitting has been retained as the model pilot, for two reasons:

it is simple: immediately easy to understand for every kind of audience, and legally straightforward;
it has been studied: preliminary studies identified babysitting, on both legal and market grounds, as the most workable starting point in a lightly occupied market (see Why and How WikiDeal Can Work).

The corresponding marketplace space is the Babysitting portal, which is intended to demonstrate the full contract lifecycle: base contract, amendments, addenda, closing and mutual evaluation.

Street Fundraising

Street Fundraising is the second selected pilot, listed together with Babysitting in Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables; see the Street Fundraising portal.

Peer-to-Peer Small Loans (pre-selected)

A third use case has been pre-selected within Prototype 1: small-amount loans between private individuals. WikiDeal contracts are intended to frame simple peer-to-peer loans of small sums, in a spirit close to microcredit: amount, repayment terms, mutual commitments, closing and mutual evaluation. A dedicated description page is intended to follow.

Candidate pilots under study

These tracks are documented but not selected: they are candidates, under study. Many more candidate examples exist beyond the ones listed here: this list is intended to grow as further ideas are documented.

AI-Driven Politician Agreement: a contract framework for political candidates committing to needs-based, statistically grounded positions independent of the left-right divide, with AI-verified compliance supervised by a human verification committee. Under construction: see Pilot: AI-Driven Politician Agreement.
Real Estate Restoration: a more specific track, described in Pilot: Real Estate Restoration. It is not a current priority, but it remains documented as a possible future pilot.

Beyond these, the second funding tranche of Prototype 1 aims at launching open calls for pilot experiments, open to any type of community.

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-{{KidsIntro|WikiDeal wants to test its fair contracts in real life. These small test projects are called pilots. Pilots can be about anything. The first model pilot is babysitting, because it is simple and it was studied first.}}
+{{KidsIntro|WikiDeal wants to test its fair contracts in real life. These small test projects are called pilots. Three pilots have been chosen to start: babysitting, street fundraising, and small loans between people. Many other ideas are candidates: they are being studied, and could become pilots later.}}
-{{ExpertIntro|Pilot use cases are the real-world experiments through which Prototype 1 is intended to demonstrate the WikiDeal model in practice. Pilots can address any domain: the model is domain-neutral. Babysitting has been retained as the model pilot because it is simple and because preliminary studies identified it as the most workable starting point. Street Fundraising is planned as a second pilot, and Real Estate Restoration remains a more specific, non-priority track. The delivery targets of the pilots are defined in Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables.}}
+{{ExpertIntro|Pilot use cases are the real-world experiments through which Prototype 1 is intended to demonstrate the WikiDeal model in practice. Pilots can address any domain: the model is domain-neutral. Three use cases are currently retained: Babysitting (the model pilot, simple and studied first), Street Fundraising, and Peer-to-Peer Small Loans (pre-selected within Prototype 1). All other tracks are candidate pilots under study, a list intended to grow: Real Estate Restoration and the AI-Driven Politician Agreement are the first documented examples. The delivery targets of the pilots are defined in Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables.}}
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 A pilot use case is a real-world experiment: a marketplace domain where WikiDeal contracts, governance and economic mechanisms are intended to be tested with actual users. Pilots can address any domain: the model itself is domain-neutral. The framework for these experiments is [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Prototype-1|Prototype 1]], and their delivery targets are defined in [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Prototype-1-Deliverables#Milestone 2: Marketplace Pilots|Milestone 2 of the Prototype 1 deliverables]].
+Two categories must be clearly distinguished:
+* '''Selected pilots''': the pilot experiments retained for Prototype 1: '''Babysitting''', '''Street Fundraising''', and the pre-selected '''Peer-to-Peer Small Loans'''.
+* '''Candidate pilots under study''': ideas documented and explored, but not selected. They could become pilots later.
+<span id="selected-pilots"></span>
+== Selected pilots ==
 <span id="babysitting"></span>
-== Babysitting: the model pilot ==
+=== Babysitting: the model pilot ===
 Babysitting has been retained as the model pilot, for two reasons:
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 The corresponding marketplace space is the [[Markets/en/Portal:Babysitting/Main|Babysitting portal]], which is intended to demonstrate the full contract lifecycle: base contract, amendments, addenda, closing and mutual evaluation.
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+<span id="street-fundraising"></span>
-== Other envisioned pilots ==
+=== Street Fundraising ===
+Street Fundraising is the second selected pilot, listed together with Babysitting in Milestone 2 of the [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Prototype-1-Deliverables|Prototype 1 deliverables]]; see the [[Markets/en/Portal:Street Fundraising/Main|Street Fundraising portal]].
+<span id="p2p-small-loans"></span>
+=== Peer-to-Peer Small Loans (pre-selected) ===
+A third use case has been '''pre-selected''' within Prototype 1: '''small-amount loans between private individuals'''. WikiDeal contracts are intended to frame simple [[wikipedia:Peer-to-peer lending|peer-to-peer loans]] of small sums, in a spirit close to [[wikipedia:Microcredit|microcredit]]: amount, repayment terms, mutual commitments, closing and mutual evaluation. A dedicated description page is intended to follow.
+<span id="candidate-pilots"></span>
+== Candidate pilots under study ==
+These tracks are documented but '''not selected''': they are candidates, under study. Many more candidate examples exist beyond the ones listed here: this list is intended to grow as further ideas are documented.
-* '''Street Fundraising''': listed together with Babysitting in Milestone 2 of the [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Prototype-1-Deliverables|Prototype 1 deliverables]]; see the [[Markets/en/Portal:Street Fundraising/Main|Street Fundraising portal]].
+* '''AI-Driven Politician Agreement''': a contract framework for political candidates committing to needs-based, statistically grounded positions independent of the left-right divide, with AI-verified compliance supervised by a human verification committee. Under construction: see [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Pilot-AI-Driven-Politician-Agreement|Pilot: AI-Driven Politician Agreement]].
 * '''Real Estate Restoration''': a more specific track, described in [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Pilot-Real-Estate-Restoration|Pilot: Real Estate Restoration]]. It is not a current priority, but it remains documented as a possible future pilot.
-Beyond these, the second funding tranche of Prototype 1 aims at launching [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Call:Main|open calls]] for pilot experiments, open to any type of community.
+Beyond these, the second funding tranche of Prototype 1 aims at launching [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Main|open calls]] for pilot experiments, open to any type of community.
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