====== 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.

Built by the [[https://www.centerforcivic.org/|Center for Civic Innovation]] with the support of:

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===== 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.

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===== 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

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===== 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.

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===== Training & Documentation =====

  * [[Training for lawyers]]
  * [[Training for business process advisors]]
  * Technical [[documentation]]

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===== 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]]