Gov/en/Portal:Trust-Safety/Main
💡 In simple words: This page is like a map of all the tools that help people on WikiDeal be kind, honest and safe with each other.
🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards collaborative platforms where safety emerges primarily from community-driven mechanisms rather than top-down enforcement. This hypothesis proposes a Trust & Safety framework for WikiDeal that combines preventive design (reputation, rings of trust) with reactive support (moderation, arbitration, alerts), favouring community autonomy and reserving centralized intervention for cases where the safety and integrity of people, the platform or the public are at stake.
⚠️ Everything described in this portal is a working hypothesis — a starting point meant to evolve based on users' proposals.
A — What you will find in this portal
- How WikiDeal keeps track of who is trustworthy over time.
- It explains how good contributors are rewarded and how harmful behaviour patterns are detected early.
- The circles of trust: how trust propagates step by step between members who know each other.
- This is a central mechanism of social resilience, allowing the community to scale without losing reliability.
- How we ensure harmonious collaboration across shared spaces.
- The approach is to observe and resolve problems as they arise, before imposing many rules.
- How we prevent deliberate sabotage of shared pages.
- It covers both protective mechanisms and the rapid repair of any damage that does occur.
- How people can contribute without giving their name.
- It balances openness with safeguards that keep the space useful and limit abuse.
Cross-cutting topics (not sub-pages of this portal, but closely related):
- Simplified arbitration as a trust- and resilience-generating tool.
- It resolves disputes fairly and quickly, without going to court.
- Alerts / Whistleblowing
- An alert channel to report serious problems (to be developed).
- Page to be created soon.
B — Mission of the Trust & Safety portal
In short: this portal describes and connects the initiatives that aim to stimulate trust and safety on WikiDeal.
Its mission is to:
- Identify, build and support the processes that keep the community safe and trustworthy, both online and offline.
- Act preventively, by designing mechanisms (reputation, rings of trust, transparent rules) that avoid problems before they appear.
- Act reactively, by accompanying and supporting members who face difficulties, conflicts or abuse.
- Uphold the key principle of community autonomy: local and global community processes come first; centralized intervention happens only when necessary to protect the safety and integrity of people, the platform and the public.
The spirit of this portal is to be a compassionate, credible and comprehensive service to the community — benevolent in its support, trustworthy in its decisions, and complete in its coverage of safety concerns.
⚠️ Reminder: this entire framework is a working hypothesis — a starting point meant to evolve based on users' proposals.