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{{KidsIntro|User groups are teams of people who use the platform for the same reason. They join together to share ideas, help each other, and have a stronger voice in decisions. They keep a legal structure and share their expertise.}}

{{ExpertIntro|User Groups are proposed as the coopetitive core of the Market: autonomous local, thematic or transversal communities below the platform level, with their own governance and commission share. They would organize freely, and the more inclusive a group, the less competition it faces. Revenue would come from commissions, bonding-curve rounds and open-call grants.}}

= User Groups =

WikiDeal's roadmap includes User Groups for: babysitting (global launch, multiple regional groups); private tutoring (language-based and subject-based groups); pet care (sitting, walking, veterinary facilitation); bicycle and tool lending cooperatives; local food markets and community-supported agriculture; freelance creative services; and language learning exchanges. Each of these domains has an established informal economy that is (illustrative example) either unplatformed (and therefore lacks trust Infrastructure) or over-platformed (and therefore paying excessive Commissions to extractive intermediaries).

Autonomous user communities as the core of a marketplace relate to research on communities of practice, online community design, commons governance, and long tail economics. These works inform the User Groups hypothesis.