💡 In simple words: You can start helping WikiDeal today: no permission is needed in the part called the Markets, where people share ideas and contract models. To help with the rules and organization pages, you first tell us who you are and ask for editing rights. Online meetings (webinars) are planned to explain everything.

🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): Practical entry point for new contributors. Clickable profile tiles (developer, lawyer, researcher, marketer, policy maker) lead to short role pages. There is no selection filter: open participation is currently possible in the Markets space (proposing use cases, contract templates and complete structures, approval of templates by legal professionals, emergence of arbitration chambers). Contributing to governance, policies and institutions requires administration rights, granted after identifying yourself via info@wikideal.net. Webinars are planned and the link is sent on request. The whole setup is early stage and offered as a basis for discussion.

Get Started: How to Contribute

WikiDeal aims to be built openly, with its future users. This page describes the current entry points for new contributors. Everything below reflects an early stage of the project: it is offered as a working basis, to be discussed and combined with other sources, not as a final rule.

Choose your profile

Each tile leads to a short page describing how people with that background could contribute. Click the one that looks like you:

Software Developer

Lawyer

Researcher

Marketer

Policy Maker

If none of these fits you, you are still welcome: the sections below explain how anyone can contribute.

No filter: you can start right away

There is no application filter and no selection process. Anyone can start contributing directly.

For now, open participation takes place in one space: the Markets. The rest of the platform works differently at this stage, as explained below.

What you can do in the Markets

The Markets space is where the contract models and use cases of WikiDeal live. This is where open contribution is possible today. Among the things you can do:

Propose use cases: describe a real-life situation (babysitting, small loans, housing, professional services, and so on) where fair agreements between people would help.
Propose contract templates: draft or improve the models that people could later use to conclude agreements.
Propose complete structures: suggest a full set of pages for a new market, following the structure of the Model portal.
Approve contract templates (for legal professionals): the idea being explored is that qualified lawyers could recognize a template as functional and freeze the approved version, so that it is protected against modification. See Contribute as a legal professional.
Take part in the emergence of arbitration chambers: WikiDeal intends to resolve disputes through mediation first, then arbitration. How arbitration chambers could emerge is still an open construction site. See the Justice portal.

To be honest: all of this is still embryonic. It is normal if it feels difficult to understand at first, since the pages, tools and processes are being shaped as the project advances. This is one of the reasons for the webinars described below.

Contributing beyond the Markets

Governance pages, policies, institutions, and in general everything outside the Markets can currently be edited only by people holding administration rights.

If you would like to take part in that work, the first step proposed is to identify yourself and contact us at info@wikideal.net. Administration rights can then be granted by an administrator, after analysis and case by case. Among the criteria envisaged: experience of contribution on a wiki; a track record of contribution to common-good projects and to publications under free licenses; and whether the person represents an organization that presents itself as a partner, such as associative federations, cooperatives and others. More broadly, the aim is to find the balance between encouraging each person and protecting the search for an initial consensus on the main tendencies. A framework is being created: at this stage the project tries to avoid editorial conflicts concentrating on fundamental aspects, on form or on power games. Rights that allow someone to accept content or evolutions of governance rules and policies are therefore proposed to people who have already shown a real capacity for consensus-seeking and participatory contribution. In the meantime, the Markets space is the natural base of contribution, since everything there is possible and much more participatory. Over time, the community will see to what extent edit conflicts appear, how serious they are, and how well they are managed. This arrangement reflects the current stage of the project and is intended to evolve as the community grows.

Webinars

Welcome and integration webinars are planned to present the project, answer questions and check that newcomers are well prepared. A dedicated page describes how they are envisaged (general welcome webinar, specialized sessions, registration and reminders): Integration Webinar.

For now, to receive the link to the webinars, send a request to info@wikideal.net.

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