Consumerium:Village pump

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Hi and welcome to the Consumerium Village pump.

The purpose of this page is to ask questions about how we should go about things here and answering them.

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This name is not good ihmo. There is nothing to buy and nothing to sell at a village pump. It is just a place to lose the soap. Please don't copy the english wiki for the sake of it.

Why not copy the 'pedia, it'll make people coming from Wikipedia feel much more home quickly.

This is a good reason NOT to copy it, considering that we get Lir and Angela coming over... not the good Wikipedia users.

My Consumerium:Market Place was a much better one.

That name would indicate there is something for sale there. I've been thinking that once we have some preliminary XML ready, then we have to set up Consumerium:Pseudore (Consumerium PSEUDo StORE), a sort of game or playground where we can test the functionality of our markup and simulate different situations eg. handling parties who wish to input Disinformation to undermine the Integrity and Reputation of the system. I'll iterate on this once it's time. Juxo 14:43 Jun 15, 2003 (EEST)

We already had one such incident, the arrival of a party who inputs disinformation and commits sysop vandalism at another large public wiki, who had to be driven off. It would be good to deal with these, as you suggest, in a more disciplined and systematic role-playing way. Trolls do not want to have to do it the old-fashioned way. THe time may have come for this.

Sigh. No one ever listen to a poor House Elf :-(

Trolls do!

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Hello consumerists. I'm not sure who's in charge around here, but whoever it is, read this. Everyone else, go away ;)

Typical Wikipedian fascist attitude.

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Thanks, I'll do that.

By the way, not everyone calls their Q&A page the village pump. The French Wikipedia has a "bistro" for example. -- Tim Starling 11:49, 13 Oct 2003 (EEST)

Sure. Maybe Consumerium:Irrigation hub would have been a better name Juxo 12:28, 13 Oct 2003 (EEST)

Propose Consumerium:Party. That can be like a garden party, or like a political party. Make sense?

Umm... No?

You don't like parties?

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Heh. I was in the process of starting the exact same thing, only I was going to call it consumerpedia. Most excellent. I'm glad to find like-minded people. DanKeshet

Maybe the name consumerpedia makes sense for the ordinary end user interface to the Consumerium:intermediate pages? It would make sense to specialize the user interface for those doing such lookup - maybe we should keep using mediawiki or GetWiki for that purpose. But see Consumerium Service access, this is only one of several types of access. And the Signal Wiki is hopefully stuff that we can truly rely on, that has gone through some quite serious vetting.

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