Parent: Document Naming Convention Child type: offshoot
WikiWe™ is one group’s label for a network of individuals and companies governed by agreements, pledges, social promises, and other documents kept in the WikiWe-Public Git, the WikiWe-Private Git and in parallel repositories. To apply, see https://wikiwe.org.
Purpose
The WikiWe Gits are reference libraries of forms, including versions and offshoots, for use in distributed governance systems. They are not intended to hold proofs of consent to any document or identities of parties consenting to any document, but are structured to interface with systems for recording proofs of consent.
The WikiWe Gits are a stepping stone to Ricardian contracts: machine executable human-readable contracts, organized in a system for providing social outcomes. The forms are designed to be parameterized and configurable by users, so as to be more easily adapted to executable forms.
Document Types
- Agreement: a document consented to by two or more identified persons or entities (the “parties”), describing terms and conditions for privileges earned and obligations assumed by the parties.
- Root: The first document in the WikiWe document tree, the Root is the foundation of all governance within the WikiWe network and provides a universal, natural law basis for conflict resolution without reference to any statute or or other claimed authority. The Root can only birth an offshoot. Versions of the Root are created by forking into a new branch.
- Child: a document that is a version or an offshoot of another specifically identified document (the “parent”) in the WikiWe document tree.
- Group Root: a parent of a group of descendant documents.
- Merger: a child that simply merges the content of two or more parents.
- Offshoot: a child that concerns a different subject matter than its parent, made subject to its parent.
- Parent: the predecessor document specifically identified by a child using a backlink.
- Pledge: a document describing an obligation assumed by a single person or entity (the “pledger”) with respect to one or more persons, entities, or groups (the “beneficiaries”).
- Pledger: a person or entity making a pledge.
- Profession: a pledge concerning a professional service, made to everyone receiving the professional service from the pledger; for example, a healer’s pledge, a lawyer’s pledge, a mechanic’s pledge.
- Social Promise: a pledge made to everyone and anyone making a reciprocal pledge.
- Version: a child document modifying or replacing another specifically identified document (the “parent”) in the WikiWe document tree.
Structure
The WikiWe Public Git contains public, open-source documents for decentralized governance by anyone. The WikiWe Private Git holds documents that are proprietary to Ricardiam DAO LLC and/or its members, for decentralized governance within and between. Together the WikiWe Public Git and the WikiWe Private Git are referred to as the “WikiWe Gits.”
Documents in each of the WikiWe Gits are arranged in a tree (hierarchical directory) beginning with the First Root of the WikiWe Public Git. The WikiWe Private Git relates to this First Node via one or more non-disclosure agreement documents in the Public Git, each being a Group Root for a set of documents in the WikiWe Private Git.
Main and Commits
Main is used differently in the WikiWe Gits than in Gits for executable code. Instead of one main repository for each version, the main repository contains every document that complies with the repository’s DOCUMENT STANDARDS as determined by its GOVERNANCE PROTOCOLS. All amendments are made by creating a child version or child offshoot of a committed document, except for amendments to the Root. Versions of the Root are created by forking a branch off of the main directory.
Integration
No document in any branch of the WikiWe Public Ledger may link to a document in another branch. Every document in the public ledger must identify the branch to which it belongs, and except for the Root, at least