Lexipedia is an open-source project building standardized business process models for legal and civic applications. We make complex legal processes more transparent and understandable through visual modeling — and we need contributors like you to help.

Whether you're a legal professional, a civic technologist, a business owner, or simply someone who believes public processes should be clear and accessible, there's a place for you here.

Ready to contribute? Lexipedia is built by its community. Here's how to get started:

• Quick Start Guide — Your first steps as an editor, from creating an account to making your first edit
• Project Overview — Understand the big picture: what Lexipedia is building and why
• Community Guidelines — How we collaborate, communicate, and keep things running smoothly
• Request Models — See what the community is asking for, or suggest a new process model
• Recent Updates — Stay current with what's changed recently

No experience needed! If you can follow a form or write a paragraph, you can contribute to Lexipedia.

If you've edited on Wikipedia, Fandom, or other MediaWiki-based platforms, you'll feel at home here. Lexipedia runs on DokuWiki, which shares many core concepts but has a simpler syntax.

Key similarities:

• Pages are edited with wiki markup (just like you're used to)
• Links use bracket notation: [[page name]] works just like MediaWiki
• Talk pages, revisions, and recent changes all work the same way
• Community-driven editing with transparent revision history

Key differences from MediaWiki:

• DokuWiki uses plain text files instead of a database — simpler, lighter, and easier to back up
• Headings use ====== H1 ====== instead of = H1 = (more equals signs = higher level)
• Bold is **bold** instead of '''bold'''
• No templates or Lua scripting — the focus here is on clean, readable content
• See the full DokuWiki syntax guide for a complete reference

If you're coming from tools like Notion, Confluence, or Google Docs, the wiki approach may be new to you — but DokuWiki is one of the simplest wikis to learn. The Quick Start Guide will have you editing in minutes.

Browse the legal and business process models our community has built:

• Jurisdictions — Models organized by location
• Categories — Models organized by topic
• Sample Entry — See what a model looks like

Review current models such as last wills, Reg CF Exemptions, and Business loans.

Experience how Lexipedia simplifies legal processes. Try our interactive demo on starting a business in Virginia:

Live demo — see the Charlottesville “how to start a business” business process in action

How we process our data

• Learn how to start a business with clear step-by-step instructions
• Create a record of how and why you made the choices you made along the way

- this is a demonstration of the processes available currently in Lexipedia

• Use dashboards to track how businesses are proceeding through processes
• Discover opportunities for businesses
• Coordinate regional level opportunities

- looking at Lexipedia & Spiff Workflow from a business development perspective

• Process models may be shared and forked
• Integration in Wikidata provides international crosswalks
• Integration in attestation models and smart contracts provide best practices for legal review

- considering Lexipedia for lawyers and legal engineers

to help legal engineers create, coordinate, and distribute better business process automation.

• Training for lawyers
• Training for business process advisors
• Technical documentation

Lexipedia documents processes from both geographic jurisdictions and online community governance. Here's what we're currently working on:

Jurisdictions

Charlottesville business startup model

Prospera

BPMN Models need to be added AI Models need to be added

Wikipedia's multi-tiered dispute resolution system is a major focus for Lexipedia — it's one of the most developed examples of community governance on the internet.

• Wikipedia Dispute Resolution Overview — Full BPMN model of the escalation process from talk pages through arbitration
• Talk Page Discussion — The first step: direct editor-to-editor discussion
• Third Opinion (3O) — Requesting an uninvolved editor's perspective
• Dispute Resolution Noticeboard (DRN) — Structured volunteer-assisted resolution
• Mediation — Mediation Committee facilitated resolution
• Arbitration (ArbCom) — Binding decisions from the Arbitration Committee
• Administrator Intervention — Admin actions for policy violations during disputes

These models demonstrate how online communities can build transparent, process-driven governance — and they're a great example of how Lexipedia can document processes beyond traditional legal jurisdictions.

Internal management plan

• Sartography & Spiffworkflow teams - open source BPMN software developers with central Virginia connections
• LexDAO - 501©6 non-profit guild of legal engineers
• Center for Civic Innovation - Charlottesville area 501©3 focused on civic tech
• Naptha.AI - Decentralized AI Workflow and Agent Orchestration

HATS integration - consider how users in pools actually represent their authority to act on a process

documentation