💡 In simple words: This page answers the most common questions from people who give money to help WikiDeal grow: what they receive, how their gift is used, and what happens next.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): A FAQ for donors. A donation to WikiDeal can generate conditional Rewards (no guarantee), funded by the subscriptions paid by users and redistributed at the pace of adoption. The narrative is community redistribution, not return on investment: a donation is not a share, not a security under the current legal analysis, not a guaranteed instrument. Activating Rewards is intended to involve a first-contact video session reserved for donors. Fund management is documented in the public fiscal study, and the model is intended to be replicable for other services in the WikiDeal network.

FAQ for Donors

1. What do I receive when I donate?

Three things at once, none of them a financial product. A donation to WikiDeal is simultaneously:

A unit of time: months of platform existence, pre-funded. When you donate CHF 100 to WikiDeal, you are pre-funding approximately 100 months of platform existence: 100 users' worth of one month each, paid in advance.
A unit of trust: your conditional bet on collective adoption, a public vote of confidence in the model, the team and the community.
A unit of rights: conditional rights on future subscription revenue, governed by a public and auditable algorithm. Governance follows the one user, one vote principle.

2. What do I get in return?

A donation can generate conditional Rewards (no guarantee). Rewards are funded by the subscriptions paid by the platform's users: as adoption grows, subscription revenue is redistributed to Reward holders at the pace of that adoption. Rewards come in two forms: cash-out Rewards (CHF) and Karma tokens. Nothing is promised: if few users subscribe, redistribution is slow or may not occur.

3. How is this different from speculative-economy models?

For clarity, it is equally important to state what a donation is not:

Not a share in Ynternet.org Foundation (which has no shareholders)
Not a security regulated by FINMA (based on the current legal analysis, see the fiscal study)
Not a guaranteed fixed-return instrument
Not a speculative token to be traded on exchanges

The model aims at progressive community redistribution, not at a return on investment. See Why Fund WikiDeal.

4. Is my donation a form of charity?

No, and this is a deliberate design choice. Charity gives unconditionally. A donation to WikiDeal is conditional: you believe in a future where many people choose a fair platform over an extractive one, and your donation can generate Rewards (no guarantee) if that future materialises. Your trust is the seed of that future.

5. How is my donation used?

The most fundamental thing a donor provides is time: not their own time, the project's time. WikiDeal needs months and years of development, iteration, community-building, and legal validation before it can reach the scale where it is self-sustaining. Your money converts directly into time: runway, capacity, possibility. Your donation pre-funds months of platform usage, before those users exist.

6. How do I activate my Rewards?

Activation is intended to start with a first-contact video session: a webinar reserved for people who have made a donation, with proposed dates to choose from. This session is intended to introduce the model, answer questions, and confirm the activation of your Rewards. The booking mechanism is under study; details will be communicated to donors.

7. Can this model be replicated elsewhere?

That is the intention. The model is first applied to WikiDeal itself, and aims at extending to other services and products in the WikiDeal network, through the Rings of Trust. Users of a service, including its employees, clients and suppliers, could buy back companies and contribute to their transition to community ownership, following the Exit to Community path.

8. What happens if not enough users subscribe?

Then redistribution slows down or does not occur. Rewards are conditional by design: they convert into value only at the pace of user subscriptions, and there is no guarantee that there will be many users. This conditionality is central to the model's non-speculative design: no fixed return is promised to anyone.

9. Where can I see how funds are managed?

In the fiscal study, which documents the funding mechanism, its legal analysis and its indicators. The algorithm that governs the distribution of Rewards is public and auditable by anyone, and rights already attributed are protected: no retroactive rule change can reduce them.

10. How can I donate or ask a question?

Start with Why Fund WikiDeal to understand the reasoning, then contact the team at info@wikideal.net. Donations are received by the Ynternet.org Foundation, the platform's legal owner.

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