This document proposes a semi-automated legal monitoring workflow for WikiDeal — a system designed to track legislative changes, publish analyses of key court decisions, and maintain a living repository of legal knowledge relevant to WikiDeal's ecosystem. The goal is to cultivate a culture of legal watch (veille juridique) that bridges the gap between raw legal data (which governments publish) and practical, accessible understanding (which citizens and professionals need).

Legal watch is a well-established practice in French-speaking legal culture. Law firms, corporate legal departments, and regulatory bodies engage in continuous monitoring of legislative developments, case law, and regulatory changes. What is new here is applying this practice to an open, wiki-based platform with AI-assisted workflows — making it available to everyone, not just those who can afford premium legal services like LexisNexis or Westlaw.

1. The Culture of Legal Watch (Veille Juridique)

Legal watch — veille juridique in French — is the systematic practice of monitoring changes in the legal environment that may affect an organization, a sector, or a community. It encompasses:

• Legislative monitoring: Tracking new laws, amendments, and repeals at national and sub-national levels
• Regulatory tracking: Following new regulations, directives, and administrative guidance
• Jurisprudence analysis: Identifying significant court decisions that interpret, clarify, or change the practical application of existing law
• Impact assessment: Analyzing how legal changes affect specific sectors, contracts, or practices
• Trend detection: Recognizing patterns across jurisdictions (e.g., a wave of platform regulation across countries)

Why Legal Watch Matters for WikiDeal

WikiDeal operates at the intersection of technology, commerce, and cooperative governance. Its contract templates, marketplace rules, and governance structures are all shaped by law. Legal watch serves several critical functions:

• Contract accuracy: Ensuring that WikiDeal contract templates remain compliant with current law across jurisdictions
• User protection: Alerting users and user groups to legal changes that affect their activities (e.g., new regulations on babysitting, gig economy rules, consumer protection updates)
• Competitive intelligence: Tracking how platform regulation evolves (Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Act, etc.)
• Research contribution: Building a publicly accessible, historically indexed record of legal developments relevant to cooperative e-commerce

2. Semi-Automated Monitoring Workflow

The proposed workflow combines automated source monitoring with AI-assisted analysis and human editorial review. The goal is to make legal watch scalable without sacrificing accuracy.

3. Legal Blog Concept

The legal watch blog is the public-facing component of the monitoring system. It serves as a chronological record of legal developments, accessible to both legal professionals and general users.

Blog Structure

• Homepage: Reverse-chronological feed of recent articles, with filtering by jurisdiction, legal domain, and type
• Article types:
  • 📜 New Law Alert — a new law or amendment has been enacted
  • ⚖️ Case Note — analysis of a significant court decision
  • 📋 Regulatory Update — new regulation, directive, or administrative circular
  • 🔍 Impact Analysis — deep-dive into how a legal change affects WikiDeal users
  • 🌍 Comparative Brief — cross-jurisdictional comparison on a specific topic
  • 📊 Quarterly Review — summary of the most significant legal developments of the past quarter
• Each article includes:
  • Headline, date, jurisdiction flag(s), legal domain tag(s)
  • 3–5 sentence executive summary
  • Full analysis (500–2,000 words typical)
  • Source citations with links to official texts
  • Impact rating: 🟢 Low / 🟡 Moderate / 🔴 High (for WikiDeal users)
  • AI disclaimer where applicable
  • Cross-links to related wiki pages and previous blog posts

Example Blog Entry

4. RSS Feed Architecture

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds enable users, organizations, and other platforms to subscribe to WikiDeal's legal watch output. The architecture provides multiple feed endpoints for targeted consumption.

Feed Endpoints

RSS Item Structure

The RSS feeds support the Dublin Core and a custom WikiDeal namespace for extended metadata (AI assistance flag, human reviewer identity, official source link). This enables downstream systems to filter, validate, and attribute content appropriately.

5. Tagging System

A structured tagging system is essential for organizing legal watch content across jurisdictions and domains. The tagging taxonomy has three dimensions:

Dimension 1: Jurisdiction (Country / Sub-national)

Sub-national tags follow the pattern: CH-GE (Canton of Geneva), US-CA (California), BR-SP (São Paulo), using ISO 3166-2 codes.

Dimension 2: Legal Domain

Dimension 3: Content Type

Tagging Implementation in MediaWiki

In the WikiDeal MediaWiki installation, tags will be implemented as categories and Semantic MediaWiki properties:

• [[Category:Legal Watch]] — all legal watch articles
• [[Jurisdiction::FR]] — Semantic MediaWiki property
• [[Legal Domain::Consumer Protection]] — domain property
• [[Article Type::Case Note]] — type property
• [[Impact Level::High]] — impact property
• [[Publication Date::2026-06-10]] — date property
• [[Official Source::https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/...]] — source URL

These properties enable dynamic queries (e.g., "Show all high-impact case notes from Switzerland in the last 6 months") using Semantic MediaWiki's #ask query language.

6. AI-Assisted Review & Publication Workflow

The AI component of the workflow is designed to assist, not replace human legal expertise. The following principles govern AI use in legal watch:

AI Assistance Principles

1. Transparency: Every article that involved AI assistance must carry the WikiDeal AI disclaimer. The nature of AI involvement (classification, drafting, translation, summarization) must be specified.
2. Human-in-the-loop: No AI-generated legal analysis may be published without review by a qualified human editor. The reviewer's name (or pseudonym) is recorded.
3. Source primacy: AI outputs must always link to the original official source. The AI may summarize, but the reader must always be able to access the underlying legal text.
4. No legal advice: AI-generated content is informational, not advisory. Clear disclaimers must state that the content does not constitute legal advice.
5. Bias monitoring: The AI classification model must be periodically audited for jurisdiction bias, domain bias, and language bias.

AI Tasks in the Pipeline

7. Source Monitoring Configuration

The following official sources should be monitored for each jurisdiction. This list is a starting point — the system should be extensible to add new sources as coverage expands.

Priority 1 — Official Gazettes & Legislative Databases

Priority 2 — Court Decision Databases

8. Editorial Policy & Quality Standards

Content Standards

• Accuracy: All legal references must cite specific articles, sections, or paragraphs. No vague references to "the law says."
• Neutrality: Legal watch articles describe the law as it is, not as WikiDeal wishes it were. Advocacy belongs in opinion pieces, not watch articles.
• Timeliness: New law alerts should be published within 72 hours of official publication. Case notes within 1 week of decision publication.
• Accessibility: Articles should be understandable by a non-lawyer with reasonable effort. Technical legal terms should be linked to the WikiDeal glossary.
• Source linking: Every claim must link to the original official source. Dead links must be monitored and replaced with archive.org mirrors when necessary.

Review Roles

9. Implementation Roadmap

Phase 1 — Foundation (Months 1–3)

• Set up RSS aggregation infrastructure for Priority 1 sources (official gazettes)
• Deploy AI classification model (initial training on WikiDeal topic corpus)
• Create blog template and editorial workflow in MediaWiki
• Recruit 2–3 volunteer legal watch editors (start with Switzerland and France)
• Publish first 10 legal watch articles as proof of concept

Phase 2 — Expansion (Months 4–6)

• Add court decision monitoring (Priority 2 sources)
• Implement tagging system with Semantic MediaWiki
• Launch public RSS feeds (master + by-country)
• Enable AI draft generation with human-in-the-loop review
• Reach 50+ published articles across 3+ jurisdictions

Phase 3 — Maturity (Months 7–12)

• Add domain-specific feeds and advanced filtering
• Implement email/push notification subscriptions for users
• Launch comparative briefs feature (cross-jurisdictional analysis)
• Integrate legal watch with WikiDeal contract templates (auto-linking relevant updates to affected templates)
• Publish quarterly review
• Target: 200+ articles, 5+ jurisdictions, 5+ active editors

Phase 4 — Scale (Year 2+)

• Open API for third-party consumption of legal watch data
• Multilingual publication (auto-translation with human review)
• Partnership with law schools and legal information institutes (FALM members)
• Integration with LexML, EUR-Lex, and other linked-data platforms
• Community-driven expansion to additional jurisdictions