💡 In simple words: WikiDeal is built like two halves of one machine: a library of fair contracts checked by lawyers, and phone apps that use those contracts to make deals easy and safe.

🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): Initial hypothesis, foundational innovation number one: a double platform. On one side, contract models endorsed by lawyers; on the other side, smartphone applications built on those models. The contracts are intended to be fair, balanced and consumer approved (reviewed and approved by user and consumer groups), and to serve the interests of users and providers, not the interests of third-party structures.

Double Platform

Foundational innovation, WikiDeal R&D. Status: initial hypothesis, page under construction, basis for discussion.

What is it?

The double platform is the first foundational concept of WikiDeal, the innovation that carries all the others together with Wikipedia Governance:

One side: contract models endorsed by lawyers. A public library of contract bases and models, drafted collaboratively (see Collaborative Contract Editing) and endorsed by lawyers who take named responsibility for them (see Peer Endorsement).
Other side: smartphone applications built on those models, intended to make the contracts usable in everyday marketplace transactions.

Intended properties

The contracts are intended to be fair, balanced and consumer approved: reviewed and approved by user and consumer groups. The double platform aims at serving the interests of users and providers, not the interests of third-party structures.

Status

This page is under construction. The concept is an initial hypothesis of the WikiDeal R&D programme; its formulation and its name are open for discussion.