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title: Wiki Content Creation Project
template: project.html
status: active
summary: "Building short, factual articles on core democracy topics so the wiki is accessible to everyone."
contributors:
  - Usmaan
  - Aya.elfadil
concepts: [democracy, decentralized-autonomous-organization, community-business, cooperative, workplace-democracy]
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The goal is to build short, factual articles on core democracy topics — accessible to anyone, not just specialists. Articles should provide references where possible.

## Get involved

Pick a topic below that interests you and write a short article (a few paragraphs with references is enough to start). Then either:

- [Open a pull request](https://github.com/DesigningOpenDemocracy/DesigningOpenDemocracy.github.io) directly on the wiki, or
- Post a draft in the [DOD Telegram](https://t.me/joinchat/HNk_UBX8A7jBPJPbAZU5Zg) and someone can help you publish it

Topic tracking: <https://trello.com/b/P5xdCf43/open-democracy-wiki>

Here are some initial ideas for content (open to suggestions):

- Democracy in the work place: Community owned businesses and related
  topics (how they're formed, existing examples, what they were able to
  achieve etc). We'll be writing multiple articles, covering as much as
  possible. The goal is to inform citizens with the necessary
  information and help them learn how they can create and manage these
  kinds of organizations.
  - DAO - Decentralized autonomous organization (definition, similar
    concepts \[cooperatives\], existing examples in the real world)
  - Businesses that can be managed online or through software (e.g. a
    publicly-owned Taxi app). Real-world examples that failed or have
    been successful
  - Community business:
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_business> , combine with:
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_ownership>
  - (another website) [Community-Owned Business: How Citizens Are
    Filling Local Needs Through Shared Vision and
    Investment](https://spokaneindependent.org/community-owned-business-how-citizens-are-filling-local-needs-through-shared-vision-and-investment/)
  - Cooperative: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative>
  - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative> , Consumers'
    co-operative:
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative>
  - Legal aspects of the topic e.g. creating a business, having it
    registered and recognized for tax purposes and so on
  - Existing Examples in the real world (would be great to have a
    dedicated page on these examples)
    - bHive (in Australia). Two of their projects:
      - <https://bhive.coop/current-projects/car-sharing/> (Bendigo Car
        Sharing Cooperative) (an article on this, how it was formed,
        what its doing etc)
      - Villages: <https://bhive.coop/current-projects/villages/>
    - Any other examples
- Government by algorithm
  - sub-topics1
- Meta-page: Summary, short examples, function
- Non-partisan_democracy -
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy>
- Compulsory voting (do later)

## Latest Updates

Created articles:  

- [[Citizens’ Assembly]]
- [Workplace Democracy](../concepts/workplace-democracy.md)
- [Decentralized Autonomous Organization](../concepts/decentralized-autonomous-organization.md)
- [Community Business](../concepts/community-business.md)

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## Previous topics (we'll will look at this later)

- Aggregation of links for organizations/groups involved in improving
  government
- Summarized analysis of the above
- Countries which have been successful in implementing Open/improved
  democracy to varying degrees
- Participatory budgeting (how its done, what are the required time
  frames etc (suggested by Nick)
- Community owned businesses (definition, types of these businesses, how
  they're created, existing examples of these businesses)

## See also

- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Concepts](../concepts/index.md)
