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Add donation mechanism (pre-purchased subscriptions), no voting rights, ×50 falls at CHF 25k — from Théo dictation |
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# '''The Wiki culture is hard to evaluate.''' Several times the foundation reached the final shortlist, faced expert questions, and saw how difficult it was for evaluators to grasp the Wiki culture — leading to dysfunctional assumptions about how the project would operate. | # '''The Wiki culture is hard to evaluate.''' Several times the foundation reached the final shortlist, faced expert questions, and saw how difficult it was for evaluators to grasp the Wiki culture — leading to dysfunctional assumptions about how the project would operate. | ||
A striking, even shocking, example: '''billions | A striking, even shocking, example: through public bodies such as the EU’s '''Research Executive Agency (REA)''' — which manages the '''Horizon 2020''' research projects (and, before it, the '''FP7''' projects) — '''billions, possibly tens of billions''' have been distributed worldwide through countless calls for proposals to build a '''decentralised Semantic Web''' (including approaches such as '''Solid''', by Tim Berners-Lee, and decentralised data structures). | ||
Despite those sums, we are '''still not there''': there has been '''virtually no emergence''', and nothing that today serves a project like WikiDeal. And as long as we are not there, the '''commodification of user data and habits''' remains '''in the hands of the GAFAM''' and others. The whole point is precisely to answer this need: the '''decommodification of user data and habits''', so that there is more '''fairness''' — more equity — in the '''global marketplace''' and in marketplaces in general. (See also the structured-data discussion in the Data portal.) | |||
== The strategic position: deposit, but don’t depend == | == The strategic position: deposit, but don’t depend == | ||
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The chosen strategy is deliberately different. | The chosen strategy is deliberately different. | ||
== The | == The “wiki” mode == | ||
WikiDeal’s primary approach is what we call ''' | WikiDeal’s primary approach is what we call '''wiki mode''' — '''simple, informal, flexible, fluid, participatory''': a '''small, highly mobile team''', able to receive '''tens or hundreds of thousands of Swiss francs in donations''', and to promise '''rewards in return''' — for people whose key motivation is not equity control, but a '''reward if the project works''', and belief in it. | ||
== Why public funding would still help == | == Why public funding would still help == | ||