Editing Abbreviations

'''Abbreviations''' used in [[Consumerium]] R&D Wiki

Not including household things like HTML, XML, HTTP, or should it? Mainly just ''internal abbreviations'' for faster input.

Oh yeah: Let's try and not forge our own jargon that makes the discussions prohibitively difficult to follow for non-[[consuholics]].

==Abbreviations for organisations, concepts and Consumerium articles==

* [[AWR]] : [[142.177.X.X/Anti Wikipedia Rants]] - The [[troll]] known as [[142.177.X.X]] has been on the warpath with [[Wikipedia]] due to him/her getting banned from there and numerous other places
* [[BT]]: [[Bluetooth]]
* [[ConsuML]]: Consumerium Markup Language
* [[w:CSR|CSR]]: [[w:Corporate social responsibility|Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[FLO]]: [[Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International]]
* [[ebXML]]: Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
* [[EPZ]]: [[Export processing zone]]
* [[D-U-N-S]]: Dun&Bradstreet equity identification number, obtaining one is free. Querying them is prohibitively expensive/difficult
* [[EAN]]: European Article Numbering
* [[EAN.UCC]]: Joint Effort by EAN-international and UCC for unification of coding systems
* [[ECRA]]: [[Ethical Consumer Research Association]]
* [[GCP]]: Global Company Prefix administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
* [[GLN]]: Global Location Number administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
* [[GSMP]]: Global Standards Management Process, initiative by [[EAN.UCC]]
* [[GTIN]]: Shared namespace containing both [[EAN]] and [[UPC]] codes administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
* [[ISIN]]: International Securities Identification Numbering System (see [[w:ISO-6166|ISO-6166]])
* [[OASIS]]: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
* [[PoS]]: [[Point-of-Sale]] 
* [[SF]]: [[Sourceforge]]
* [[SSCC]]: Serial Shipping Container Code, administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
* [[SRC]] ;) : [[Socially Responsible Consuming]]
* [[SRI]]: [[Socially Responsible Investing]]
* [[UCC]]: Uniform Code Council, administers [[UPC-A]] and [[UPC-E]] code systems
* [[UHC]]: [[Ultimate Holding Company]] (this term is used by the folks at [http://ethicalconsumer.org ECRA-site])
* [[UNECE]] : United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
* [[w:UN/LOCODE|UN/LOCODE]]: United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations
* [[UPC-A]]: Uniform Product Code A, Product indentification system in the US & CA, administered by [[UCC]]
* [[UPC-E]]: Uniform Product Code E, for [[small product]]s, Product indentification system in the US & CA, administered by [[UCC]]
* [[w:QoS|QoS]]: [[w:Quality of Service|Quality of Service]]

==Abbreviations used in article summaries==
*fmt - format
*para - paragraph
*rm - remove
*rv - revert
*tyop - typo
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'''See also:'''
* [[Consumerium Concepts]]
* [[Glossary]]