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== What is it? == | == What is it? == | ||
Wikipedia Governance is the second foundational concept of WikiDeal, together with | Wikipedia Governance is the second foundational concept of WikiDeal, together with [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Participative Agreement Design|Participative Agreement Design]]: '''the same governance as Wikipedia, applied to deals and marketplaces instead of encyclopedic knowledge'''. The starting hypothesis is that what worked for knowledge (open participation, transparent versioned content, community decision making, dispute resolution by the community itself) can be adapted to commerce. | ||
WikiDeal's governance is intended as a hybrid of three proven sources: the open, wiki-style rule-making of Wikipedia and the free software movement, the at-cost financial management and user ownership of cooperatives, and the Swiss practice of collegial executives at every level, elected by an assembly of delegates. The full model is described on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page. However, because WikiDeal aims to build a "digital" global marketplace, the governance of Wikimedia (which has been operating Wikipedia and other wikis since 2001) provides a fundamental source of inspiration that we slightly adapt for this context. | WikiDeal's governance is intended as a hybrid of three proven sources: the open, wiki-style rule-making of Wikipedia and the free software movement, the at-cost financial management and user ownership of cooperatives, and the Swiss practice of collegial executives at every level, elected by an assembly of delegates. The full model is described on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page. However, because WikiDeal aims to build a "digital" global marketplace, the governance of Wikimedia (which has been operating Wikipedia and other wikis since 2001) provides a fundamental source of inspiration that we slightly adapt for this context. | ||