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-====== About Lexipedia ======
+====== Welcome to Lexipedia ======
-Lexipedia is an open-source project aimed at creating standardized business process models for legal and civic applications. Our goal is to make complex legal processes more transparent and understandable through visual modeling.
+**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.
-===== Model Listings =====
+----
-  * [[Jurisdictions]]
+===== Get Involved — Start Editing =====
-  * [[Categories]]
-  * [[Sample Entry]]
-Review current models such as [[last wills]], [[Reg CF Exemptions]], Business [[loans]]
-===== Interactive Demo =====
+Ready to contribute? Lexipedia is built by its community. Here's how to get started:
-Experience how Lexipedia simplifies legal processes. Try our interactive demo on starting a business in Virginia:
+  * **[[Quick Start Guide]]** — Your first steps as an editor, from creating an account to making your first edit
+  * **[[overview|Project Overview]]** — Understand the big picture: what Lexipedia is building and why
+  * **[[Community Guidelines]]** — How we collaborate, communicate, and keep things running smoothly
+  * **[[requests|Request Models]]** — See what the community is asking for, or suggest a new process model
+  * **[[Recent Updates]]** — Stay current with what's changed recently
-[[https://lexi-jbirddog.wasmer.app//|Live demo]] see the Charlottesville "how to start a business" business process in action
+No experience needed! If you can follow a form or write a paragraph, you can contribute to Lexipedia.
-How we [[process]] our data
+----
-===== Training documentation =====
+===== Coming from Another Wiki? =====
-  * [[Training for lawyers]]
+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.
-  * [[Training for business process advisors]]
-  * Technical [[documentation]]
-===== Intended Audiences =====
+**Key similarities:**
+  * Pages are edited with wiki markup (just like you're used to)
+  * Links use bracket notation: ''<nowiki>[[page name]]</nowiki>'' works just like MediaWiki
+  * Talk pages, revisions, and recent changes all work the same way
+  * Community-driven editing with transparent revision history
-  * People starting businesses
+**Key differences from MediaWiki:**
-    * Learn how to start a business with clear step-by-step instructions
+  * DokuWiki uses plain text files instead of a database — simpler, lighter, and easier to back up
-    * Create a record of how and why you made the choices you made along the way
+  * Headings use ''<nowiki>====== H1 ======</nowiki>'' instead of ''<nowiki>= H1 =</nowiki>'' (more equals signs = higher level)
+  * Bold is ''<nowiki>**bold**</nowiki>'' instead of ''<nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki>''
+  * No templates or Lua scripting — the focus here is on clean, readable content
+  * See the full [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax|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.
-{{youtube>2rnyY7xew7c?}} - this is a demonstration of the processes available currently in Lexipedia
+----
+===== Explore Lexipedia =====
+==== Model Listings ====
-  * For business development agencies
+Browse the legal and business process models our community has built:
-    * Use dashboards to track how businesses are proceeding through processes
-    * Discover opportunities for businesses
+  * [[Jurisdictions]] — Models organized by location
-    * Coordinate regional level opportunities
+  * [[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]].
+==== Interactive Demo ====
+Experience how Lexipedia simplifies legal processes. Try our interactive demo on starting a business in Virginia:
+[[https://lexi-jbirddog.wasmer.app//|Live demo]] — see the Charlottesville "how to start a business" business process in action
+How we [[process]] our data
+----
+===== Who Is Lexipedia For? =====
+==== People Starting Businesses ====
+  * 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
+{{youtube>2rnyY7xew7c?}} - this is a demonstration of the processes available currently in Lexipedia
+==== Business Development Agencies ====
+  * Use dashboards to track how businesses are proceeding through processes
+  * Discover opportunities for businesses
+  * Coordinate regional level opportunities
 {{youtube>o-bxAPdy3L8?}} - looking at Lexipedia & Spiff Workflow from a business development perspective
-  * For legal engineers
+==== Legal Engineers ====
-    * Process models may be shared and forked
+  * Process models may be shared and forked
-    * Integration in Wikidata provides international crosswalks
+  * Integration in Wikidata provides international crosswalks
-    * Integration in attestation models and smart contracts provide best practices for legal review
+  * Integration in attestation models and smart contracts provide best practices for legal review
 {{youtube>LOijQBoYRAU?}} - considering Lexipedia for lawyers and legal engineers
 to help legal engineers create, coordinate, and distribute better business process automation.
+----
+===== Training & Documentation =====
+  * [[Training for lawyers]]
+  * [[Training for business process advisors]]
+  * Technical [[documentation]]
+----
-*[[overview|Project Overview]]
+===== Models Being Reviewed =====
-*[[Quick Start Guide]]
-*[[Recent Updates]]
-*[[Community Guidelines]]
-*[[requests|Request models]]
+Lexipedia documents processes from both geographic jurisdictions and online community governance. Here's what we're currently working on:
+==== Geographic Jurisdictions ====
-==== Jurisdictions being reviewed ====
 [[Jurisdictions]]
-== Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ==
+=== Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ===
 [[cville-business|Charlottesville business startup model]]
-== Prospera, Roatan, Honduras ==
+=== Prospera, Roatan, Honduras ===
 [[prospera|Prospera]]
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 [[ai-models|AI Models]] need to be added
-[[lexipedia-ops|Internal]] management plan
+==== Community Governance & Dispute Resolution ====
+=== Wikipedia ===
+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|Wikipedia Dispute Resolution Overview]] — Full BPMN model of the escalation process from talk pages through arbitration
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_talk_page|Talk Page Discussion]] — The first step: direct editor-to-editor discussion
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_third_opinion|Third Opinion (3O)]] — Requesting an uninvolved editor's perspective
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_noticeboard|Dispute Resolution Noticeboard (DRN)]] — Structured volunteer-assisted resolution
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_mediation|Mediation]] — Mediation Committee facilitated resolution
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_arbitration|Arbitration (ArbCom)]] — Binding decisions from the Arbitration Committee
+  * [[wikipedia_dr_admin_intervention|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 ====
+[[lexipedia-ops|Internal management plan]]
-===== Sponsors ======
+===== Sponsors =====
   * [[https://sartography.com/|Sartography]] & [[https://www.spiffworkflow.org/|Spiffworkflow]] teams - open source BPMN software developers with central Virginia connections
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   * [[https://www.naptha.ai/|Naptha.AI]] - Decentralized AI Workflow and Agent Orchestration
-===== Integrations & Development To-dos ======
+===== Integrations & Development To-dos =====
 [[https://www.hatsprotocol.xyz/|HATS]] integration - [[hats|consider how users in pools actually represent their authority to act on a process]]
-===== Meta documentation ======
+===== Meta documentation =====
 [[documentation]]