Programs:Home

💡 In simple words: A program is a big project that puts several WikiDeal markets together, like housing plus activities plus learning, so people can do many things in one place.

Welcome to the WikiDeal programs home page. A program is a combination of several marketplaces brought together into one coherent, global experience (for example housing + activities + training). A single marketplace, such as babysitting, is not itself a program; it is a service used within one or more programs.

Programs are the operational backbone of WikiDeal: they turn contracts and use cases into real-world journeys by orchestrating several markets into a coherent path. There is no fixed number of programs; new ones are added as the community proposes them. Programs are grouped into thematic categories (Technology, Market, Social, Artistic, Retail).

This page is the counterpart of the Markets home: Markets describe the individual marketplaces and portals, Programs describe how several markets combine.

Example programs

The following are example programs being explored. They are illustrative, not a closed list.

Social

Volunteering Program: contribution through time and skills, open to all, from basic tasks (babysitting, cleaning, cooking) to high-value contributions (strategic advice, working groups, facilitation). Formation by doing. Includes the Shared Resources stimulation mechanism. Participants earn Miles Credits.
Eco-Village Transition Program: transition to cooperative living in eco-villages. Combines housing contracts, volunteering agreements, freelance service provision and project incubation. Multi-marketplace by nature.
Education Program: learn a skill and earn Credits at the same time, with competence credits validated through practice and usable in Rings of Trust. Combines a tutoring marketplace, a certification process and peer-review validation.

Market

Real Estate Program: valorisation of empty properties through Senior/Junior incubator teams, with 8 competence modules (photography, pricing, furnishing, guest management, contracts, legal, community governance, reporting). Could create local WikiDeal real estate agencies.
Street Fundraising Program: flexible street dialogue for NGOs and associations, with 3 contracts (association to user group, association to dialoguer, donation), revenue spreading, Boost mechanism and bidirectional evaluation.
Microcredit Program: transparent microcredit circles and mutual aid networks (tontines), with auditable contracts and a proper arbitration framework. Combines a loan marketplace, savings circles and peer-guarantee systems.
Transport Program: migration of transport cooperatives to WikiDeal infrastructure, including ridesharing and vehicle sharing (not traditional taxi dispatch). Members keep their brand; WikiDeal would provide the back-office contracts.

Technology

Rings & Alliances Program: user groups forming alliances and Rings of Trust, with contracts for shared Miles Credits usage rights and interoperability agreements (usage coefficients 1 to 10). Encourages cooperation over forking.
Community Migrations Program: support for migrating entire communities and their existing agreements onto WikiDeal infrastructure.

Retail

Recycling & Upcycling Program: social entrepreneurship through recycling, carpentry-recycling, electronics refurbishment and textile upcycling. Artisan workshops and maker spaces.

Programs and the rest of the Markets space

Programs sit alongside the other parts of the Markets home:

Portals group the individual marketplaces.
Programs (this page) combine several marketplaces into a journey.
Observatories watch and document a field (for example planned obsolescence, competition, free legal watch).
Rings of Trust are the circles of mutual trust in which Credits and guarantees are shared.
Toolbox holds the clause bases, endorsed contract models, legal references and compensation rules.

Contribute

You are very welcome to propose a new program, document an existing one, or join a user group working on the markets and programs you care about.