Impact Markets is now GiveWiki (v3.4–3.5)
Impact Markets is now GiveWiki (v3.4–3.5)
Releases 3.3 to 3.5 pack many smaller features – plus the big rebrand of the platform
Impact Markets is now GiveWiki! (Impact Marks are now Wiki Credits.)
The new name conveys succinctly what the platform is about:
A crowdsourced recommendation engine for giving.
A place where you can (soon) give away Wiki Credits.
A place to give quickly (wikiwiki ≈ quick) – counter the Donor’s Dilemma.
Conversely, we encountered a few problems with the name “Impact Markets” – the vagueness, after all, most things have an impact and are a market in some sense; the plural and mixups with the excellent folks at impactmarket.com; and sometimes the implication that we provide fiat- or stablecoin-denominated auctions.
Plus, Impact Markets doesn’t share the initials of one of my favorite authors, Gene Wolfe!
But we’ll keep calling the thing that we’re aiming for – markets for public, common, and network goods – by the name “impact markets,” just without the caps.
As such, nothing changes about our strategy. Just the platform GiveWiki is now more clearly positioned as our testing ground in phases 1 & 2 of our rollout, distinguishing it from the pluralist ecosystem we want to grow in phase 3.
In short:
Impact markets: The vision.
Good Exchange (GoodX): The company.
GiveWiki: The platform.
In other news …
Enhanced Comments
Many of you have asked to be able to read or write recommendations or critiques in prose (as opposed to made or withheld donations).
You can now not only describe your reasoning behind your donations in a dedicated comment section but also copy-paste (with permission please) or link endorsements from around the web.
(H/t Frankie)
Liked Projects
Want to mildly recommend a project when you notice it but are not yet sure whether or with how much money you want to support it?
Your liked projects are now listed on your profile so that anyone who follows your donations can study them.
(H/t Frankie)
Your Giving Influencers
When you register a donation, we now ask you to register why you made this particular donation: Was it thanks to your own research? Thanks to our top project ranking? Or did you follow the recommendation of one of our project scouts?
This data will be invaluable to assess our impact and for the project scouts to assess theirs!
(H/t, uh, me xD)