Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Site-Structure
💡 In simple words: This page explains how the WikiDeal website is organized: one wiki with big sections for governance, marketplaces and policies, in English and French. It is a first try, and anyone can suggest a better way to organize it.
🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): wikideal.net currently runs as a single MediaWiki installation. Content is grouped in top-level spaces (Gov, Markets, Market, Policies) through page titles, following the <Space>/<lang>/Portal:Name convention, with English and French as phase-1 languages. Inside each space, content is organized in thematic portals, complemented by categories. The funding part is developed outside the wiki as a separate dashboard application. This structure is a temporary working decision, open to change through the open call on URL naming and general structure.
Site structure
This is a temporary decision. This page describes how the current structure of wikideal.net was set up and what the current results look like. It is a working hypothesis, not a definitive truth: anyone can propose to do it differently through the open call on URL naming and general structure.
One single MediaWiki
wikideal.net currently runs on one single MediaWiki installation, not several wikis. All the content spaces described below live in the same wiki and share the same search, page histories, categories, templates and user accounts.
Top-level spaces
Pages are grouped in top-level spaces through their titles, following the convention <Space>/<lang>/Portal:Name (or, more generally, <Space>/<lang>/...):
- Gov: the governance space. It holds thematic portals such as Onboarding, R&D, Rules, Institutions, Justice, Transparency, Legal, Trust & Safety, Terms, Economy, Community, Data, Ecosystem and Meta. Example:
Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main. - Markets: the marketplace space, parallel to Gov. Each market portal (Babysitting, Coop Housing, Professional, Pet Sitting, Real Estate and others) is intended to organize contracts, clauses, legal references, alerts, use cases and associated apps. Example:
Markets/en/Portal:Babysitting/Main. - Market (singular): a small space currently hosting the soft transmission pages, for example Soft Transmission.
- Policies: the platform policies space, started in 2026 with pages such as Policies/en/Main. Policies carry the status "proposal, to be adopted".
In addition to these title-based spaces, the wiki uses a few dedicated MediaWiki namespaces, such as Market: (for example Market:Home), User group: and the WikiDeal: project namespace (for example WikiDeal:Community portal).
Languages
Phase-1 languages are English and French. The language code appears directly in the page title (/en/, /fr/). Most content is currently written in English; French versions exist for a small number of pages, for example Gov/fr/Portal:R&D/Main.
Portals and categories
Inside each space, content is organized in portals: groups of pages sharing a Portal:Name segment in their titles, usually with a Main entry page. The Gov and Markets root pages list the current portals, and Meta/Portals is intended to document the portal architecture.
Categories complement the title-based structure, for example Category:Use Cases, Category:Contract Models and Category:Migration June 2026.
Funding outside the wiki
The funding part is developed outside the MediaWiki, as a separate dashboard application. A development instance is hosted at aidev.wikideal.net. The wiki and the dashboard are intended to stay linked through simple hyperlinks, not through a shared technical platform.
Propose a different structure
This structure is how the site was bootstrapped, and these are the current results. It is not a final design. Anyone can propose a different URL naming scheme or a different general structure through the open call on URL naming and general structure.
See also