This page gathers strategy and deployment questions for WikiDeal, raised while adapting the policies listed on WikiDeal policies. Status: ongoing, updated as answers evolve.

Open questions on WikiDeal strategy and deployment

Every policy in the Policies namespace is a proposal. The answers to the questions below follow a three-step process:

Initial hypothesis: Théo Bondolfi proposes a first answer, as an initial hypothesis to be discussed.
First validation: the founding steering committee (hosting and incubation phase) discusses and gives a first validation.
Community ownership: the community of WikiDealers progressively takes ownership of these answers, updates them and empowers them.

Questions therefore carry one of two statuses: open question (no answer proposed yet) or initial hypothesis (a first answer has been proposed and awaits the next steps).

Questions with a first answer (initial hypothesis)

Who legally owns the WikiDeal platform? Initial hypothesis: the Ynternet.org Foundation is the legal owner of the platform. This is reflected in the Universal Code of Conduct.
What is the WikiDeal vision statement? Initial hypothesis: the vision is expressed by the slogan "Fair deals with nice people" and by the founding question "Can users own, run and sustain a global marketplace?".
What are the official contact addresses? Initial hypothesis: all official requests go to info@wikideal.net, as reflected in the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data policy.

Open questions

Community roles and bodies: the source policies rely on defined roles (stewards, email response team, functionaries, an Ombuds Commission). Which equivalent roles and bodies should WikiDeal create, and under which names?
User groups and partner organizations: should WikiDeal have an equivalent of affiliates or chapters (user groups, partner organizations), and how would they be represented?
Legal referent: which department or referent of the Ynternet.org Foundation acts as the "Legal department" referred to in the policies (review of exceptions, requests from authorities)?
Scope of technical policies: which infrastructure-specific policies (technical spaces code of conduct, API usage guidelines, IP tools, peering) make sense for WikiDeal, and which should be set aside or merged?
Board and staff policies: should the "Board and staff" policies (conflict of interest, gifts, travel, whistleblower) be adopted as such for the Ynternet.org Foundation, or merged with its existing internal regulations?
Anti-corruption framework: the source includes a policy based on a United States law (FCPA). Should a Swiss foundation replace it with Swiss anti-corruption provisions or international standards?
Committees: which committees (audit, executive, governance, product and technology, talent and culture) should be created, and with which charters?
Migration order of referenced documents: which referenced documents (enforcement guidelines, privacy policy, data retention guidelines, office actions policy, legal documentation, resolutions) should be migrated next, in which order, and which should be dropped?
Reader introductions: should policy pages carry the standard WikiDeal reader introductions (KidsIntro and ExpertIntro boxes), or remain plain reference texts?
Terminology: validate "the WikiDeal platform" and "the WikiDeal Sites" as the standard terms replacing the source's "projects" and "sites", for consistency with the future Terms of Use.
Trademarks: which trademarks (WikiDeal, Ynternet.org) are registered or should be registered, and by whom? Needed before adapting the trademark policy.
Legitimate informational use: the source allows "encyclopedic, informational use" of otherwise restricted content. How should legitimate informational use be defined for a contracts platform (for example documentation of disputes)?
Non-migrated pages: confirm the classifications proposed on Non-migrated pages (licensing policy, DMCA, friendly space policy, non-discrimination policy, visual identity guidelines, tool-dependent policies).
Community governance mechanisms: which concrete WikiDeal mechanisms (internal justice, arbitration) should carry the application of these policies where the source refers to "community governance mechanisms"?