Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Glossary:USERS

💡 In simple words: “Users” are the people at the heart of WikiDeal — not customers, but actors who help build and run it, and who have a say.

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USERS

Founding question — word by word

“Users” is the fundamental element of the question. It signals that WikiDeal is an agreement — a set of shared rules that bind people together so that they all feel like users, not customers.

The notion of the user is at the core of WikiDeal's dynamic. Users are not consumers: they are actors in the project. They take part, they must agree, and they have a say in how things work. Their key role — contributing, governing, deciding — is what makes a community-owned marketplace possible.

See also: Prosumer · Stakeholder · Community Portal.

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The founding question: Can users own, run and sustain a global marketplace?