====== Welcome to Lexipedia ====== **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. ---- ===== Get Involved — Start Editing ===== 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 * **[[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 No experience needed! If you can follow a form or write a paragraph, you can contribute to Lexipedia. ---- ===== Coming from Another Wiki? ===== 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 [[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. ---- ===== Explore Lexipedia ===== ==== Model Listings ==== 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]]. ==== 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 ==== Legal Engineers ==== * 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 {{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]] ---- ===== Models Being Reviewed ===== Lexipedia documents processes from both geographic jurisdictions and online community governance. Here's what we're currently working on: ==== Geographic Jurisdictions ==== [[Jurisdictions]] === Charlottesville, Virginia, USA === [[cville-business|Charlottesville business startup model]] === Prospera, Roatan, Honduras === [[prospera|Prospera]] BPMN Models need to be added [[ai-models|AI Models]] need to be added ==== 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 ===== * [[https://sartography.com/|Sartography]] & [[https://www.spiffworkflow.org/|Spiffworkflow]] teams - open source BPMN software developers with central Virginia connections * [[https://lexdao.org/|LexDAO]] - 501(c)6 non-profit guild of legal engineers * [[https://www.centerforcivic.org/|Center for Civic Innovation]] - Charlottesville area 501(c)3 focused on civic tech * [[https://www.naptha.ai/|Naptha.AI]] - Decentralized AI Workflow and Agent Orchestration ===== 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 ===== [[documentation]]