WikiWe
An open protocol for verifiable agreements, portable reputation, and durable records.
Working draft. This site describes a protocol under active design. Nothing here is a finalized specification, a certification standard, or a claim that every described component has been implemented. See Protocol Overview for what exists today versus what is proposed.
In plain terms
Imagine you spend years building a good reputation somewhere — a long history of keeping promises, doing good work, earning people's trust. Then the app shuts down, or locks your account, and there's no way to prove any of it, because the only record lived inside someone else's database.
WikiWe is a way to fix that. It lets people and groups keep signed, tamper-evident records of the agreements they made and the things they actually did — records that don't vanish just because one company goes away. You hold your own copy of your history (a "Reputation Wallet") and decide how much of it to show anyone who asks: you can prove one fact ("I hold this credential"), or prove a broader claim ("here's everything relevant from the past ten years, and nothing was left out") without handing over your entire life story to see it.
No single company has to be trusted to hold all of this forever. Anyone can run a compatible service (an "Administrator") the same way many different banks can all honor the same kind of check. If your provider ever disappears, your own retained records and a shared set of rules let you and your community choose a trustworthy successor instead of starting over from zero.
The rest of this page — and the full white paper — describes how that actually works.
The technical version
People form enterprises, communities, partnerships, and project teams across organizational and geographic boundaries, but the records supporting those relationships are often fragmented and fragile — trapped in whichever platform happened to host them. WikiWe represents agreements, promises, notices, credentials, and other significant events as signed, content-addressed Verifiable Records, underlying portable Reputation Wallets that stay under the control of the people they describe.
WikiWe is not a single company or a single running service. It is a protocol — a set of shared record formats, authorization rules, and continuity mechanisms — that independent Administrators can implement to provide compatible, interoperable services while members keep their agreements, evidence, and reputation portable across organizational boundaries.
- Protocol Overview — the core architecture: Verifiable Records, Agreement Channels, Reputation Wallets, selective disclosure, and continuity.
- Certification — how an Administrator's implementation is evaluated against published conformance profiles.
- About — who stewards this protocol, and how it relates to the Administrators that run it.
The full working draft white paper is available as WikiWe: A Protocol for Verifiable Agreements, Portable Reputation, and Durable Records (PDF).