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'''Consumium / Consumerium - Enhancing consumer informedness'''
 
<big>'''''Consumerium''''' - ''Enhancing Consumer Informedness'' since 2002 - '''''Kuluttajisto''''' - ''Kuluttajien voimaannuttamista'' jo vuodesta 2002 </big>
 
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|[[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]] to [[Consumerium]] [[Development Wiki]], where [[fair trade]], [[political consumerism]], [[w:FLOSS|Free, Libre and Open Source Software ( FLOSS )]], [[moral purchasing]], [[w:consumer activism|consumer activism]] and [[w:Activist shareholder|shareholder activism]] trends, all essential to our [[Consumerium:philosophy|philosophy]], are being pieced together into what we call '''moral purchasing power''' by the means of providing consumers means and opportunity to consort by enabling [[services]] ( which are provided on [[infrastructure]] that consumes [[resources]] and is built with [[technology|technologies]] ).
= Consumerium itself =


[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s and [[feedback]] to the producers to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.
[[File:Copyleft.svg|thumb|left|120px|[[w:Copyleft|w:Copyleft]], totally a thing to do with all said to the right of this graphic. In Finnish it is [[w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus|w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus]] which translates to "user's right"]]


We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for [[wiki|storage]], transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]] to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.


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[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] is a not-for-profit effort to enable '''display''' of '''[[Features|product information]]''' to '''[[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]]''' to '''producers''' and their '''owners''' in '''all [[countries of the world]]''' to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible. To this end Consumerium is compiling information on the '''[[countries of the world]]''', '''[[technologies]]''', [[Consumerium list of lists#Consumerium lists of consumer convenience services|convenience services for the consumer]] and [[Consumerium list of lists|more]].
'''In [[Consumerium plans as of 2013]]''' <font color="Red"> there are various issues which need to be resolved</font>  
 
Our intent is to provide '''[[Knowledge graphs|a knowledge graph]]'''  and '''[[services]]''' for which we need [[infrastructure]] built with '''[[technologies]]'''.
 
<big>'''The [[Consumerium development wiki turns 20]]'''</big> on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.


<font color="green">Plans regarding the</font> '''[[voting]]''' <font color="green"> were finished in December 2012</font>. Voting results ( obs. plural ), '''[[reviews]], [[feedback]] and [[links|links and linked data]] and other [[information]]''' are the five key components of a view on a business.
[[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]] to our set of <font color="blue"> {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</font> [[Consumerium]] Effort [[development wiki]] [[Special:Allpages|articles]] crafted in the spirit of [[Consumerium:We|our]] [[Consumerium:philosophy|philosophy]] where [[fairtrade]], [[Human rights and business|human rights in business]], [[political consumerism]], [[copyleft]], [[free software]], [[moral purchasing]], [[w:consumer activism|w:consumer activism]] and [[w:Activist shareholder|w:shareholder activism]] are close to the core.


Facts and numbers for calculating most of the '''[[Consumerium:Metrics]]''' ( from 2008-2010 ) <font color="Green">are available from 2 sources</font>  - [[DBpedia]] and [[Wikidata]] for tens of thousands of businesses.  
We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licenses|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for [[wiki|storage]], transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]] to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.


'''[[How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell]]''' - a classic from 2004
Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.  The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits. There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]].


[[Links|Looking for info on companies and products now? See our links compiled since 2003.]] - [[Features|Planned Features to The Consumer]] - [[Consumerium Services|Consumerium Services ( messy )]] - [[Consumer Agent|Planned Consumer Agent app]]
There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users out of which {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} users are admin. Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.
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<big>[https://consumerium.org/ Consumerium.org domain root landing page Wordpress]</big> explains the core of Consumerium with links to this wiki and [https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/ Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org]</big> the same thing in Finnish<ref group="footnote">The translation from Consumerium to Kuluttajisto was done by a bloke, whose name I cannot recall, on the [[w:Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action|ATTAC]] Finland bus trip to the [[w:European Social Forum#Second ESF|Second European Social Forum]] 2003 in Paris by the time we had reached [[w:Töölö]]</ref>


A couple of ways to start exploring Consumerium are the '''[[Brief introduction]]''' and '''[[Consumerium:FAQ]]''' articles.  There are also other '''[[essential projects]]''', such as '''[[Simple English Wikipedia]]''' [http://simple.wikipedia.org (.org)] and '''[[Sourcewatch]]'''[http://www.sourcewatch.org .org] and many others that we hope to introduce you to.
[[Image:Trollboele.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Welcom to Trollböle, west bank of the [[Former Aral Sea Shores]]. No, seriously, keeping all production servers in [[w:Finland|w:Finland]] to make [[w:jurisdiction|w:jurisdiction]] certain. [[w:law of Finland|w:The laws of Finland]] are quite rational. Read for yourself, if you don't believe: most of it is in translations [https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/ here].]]


There are currently <font color="blue"> {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</font> [[Special:Allpages|articles]] of [[Development Wiki|Consumerium development]] related work.
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== Consumerium's lists of constructive services ==


Managers wondering about the impact of this on their business should read <big>[[Consumerium:Executive summary|The Executive Summary page]]</big>.
[[File:Consumerium.org-A6-cards-winter-clear.png|thumb|right|682px|The new bilingual (English && Finnish) A6 cards for Consumerium.org arrived in July 2020.]]
<section begin=Consumerium.org lists />
<big>
:[[Lists of shared and alternative transport and traveler routers]]


:[[Lists of review aggregators and review sites]]


Also visit these:
:[[Lists of price comparison services]]


<big>
:[[Lists of alternative financial services]]
[http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ Responsible Shopper] ( USA )


[http://www.thehungersite.org The HungerSite] ( World-wide )
:[[List of free education]]


[http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ Ethical Consumer] ( UK )
:[[Countries of the world]]</big> is where the local information relevant to Consumerium goals is gathered


[https://d.consumium.org d.consumium.org] [[Diaspora]]* pod ( since 2013 )
: and <big>[[Consumerium list of lists|much more in the Consumerium list of lists]]
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== Some key articles ==
'''[[Timeline of Consumerium]]''' is work eternally in progress. Currently it is year '''[[Timeline of Consumerium#2021|2021]]'''.


Our '''[[Links]]''' offer a comprehensive list of moral purchasing related information resources and other sites of use to the consumer such as '''[[Price comparison services]] and [[Review aggregators and review sites]]'''.
'''[[How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell]]''' - a timeless classic from 2004


For editing practice, try playing in the [[Consumerium:Sandbox|Sandbox]].
[[Features|Planned Features to The Consumer]] - [[Consumerium Services|Consumerium Services ( messy )]] - [[Consumer Agent|Planned Consumer Agent app]]
 
<big>'''[[Consumerium:Executive summary|The Executive Summary page]]'''</big> is a 5 minute read to Consumerium.
 
<big>'''[[Human rights and business]]'''</big>


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'''Contact info'''
== Quotes ==
 
{{Q|'''Ethical consumerism''' is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of [[w:dollar voting|w:dollar voting]].  It is practiced through 'positive buying' in that ethical products are favoured, or 'moral [[boycott]]', that is negative purchasing and company-based purchasing.|Wikipedia|[[w:Ethical consumerism|w:Ethical consumerism]]}}
 
{{Q|'''Consumism'''.|[[User:Jukeboksi]]|how neo can into logism ([[User:Jukeboksi/Quotes|more]])}}
 
== Visit also these sites ==
=== For decision makers ===
 
<big>[https://www.traffikanalysis.org/ '''TraffikAnalysis'''.org]</big> anti-trafficking data hub by [https://www.stopthetraffik.org/ StopTheTraffik.org] and IBM
 
<big>[https://www.frdm.co/ '''FRDM.co''']</big> offers for-a-fee services that find and fix risks in supply chains
 
=== Be a conscientious consumer ===
 
<big>[https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ '''OpenFoodFacts'''.org]</big> [[Open Food Facts|OFF]] is a non-political effort to crowdsource and copyleft information on food.
 
<big>[https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ '''EthicalConsumer'''.org]</big> ( UK ) and their [https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/researchhub/globaldirectory.aspx Global directory to ethical consumption]
 
<big>[https://www.greenamerica.org/responsible-shopper '''ResponsibleShopper''' at greenamerica.org]</big> ( USA )
 
<big>[https://www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/ '''TheGoodShoppingGuide'''.com]</big> ( UK )
 
<big>[https://buycott.com/ '''Buycott'''.com]</big> a mobile and web app with same goals as Consumerium: consumer empowerment.
 
=== Share your consumer experiences ===
 
<big>[https://alternativeto.net/software/trustpilot/ '''Alternatives to''' TrustPilot]</big> or <big> [https://www.trustpilot.com/ '''TrustPilot'''.com]</big>
 
=== Be a part of the activist momentum ===
 
<big>[https://corporatewatch.org/ '''CorporateWatch'''.org]</big>
 
<big>[http://SumOfUs.org '''SumOfUs'''.org]</big> ( World-wide activist effort )
 
<big>[https://www.utopia.de/ '''Utopia.de''']</big> ( Deutsch )
 
=== Be smart about computer issues ===
 
<big>[https://alternativeto.net/ '''AlternativeTo'''.net]</big> crowdsourced software and website recommendations
 
<big>[https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ '''The Green Web Foundation''' (.org)]</big> Green hosting selection site and browser add-on
 
<big>[https://builtwith.com/ '''BuiltWith'''.com]</big> see what websites are made with (few free samples without free account, some more with a free account and paid accounts up-to-unlimited searches)
 
<big>The '''[[SAFE Network]]''' [https://safenetwork.tech/ (.tech)]</big> get clued into the next distributed Internet
 
<big>[https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v6/ '''Free Software Foundation''''s giving guide v6]</big>
 
=== Do philantropy ===
 
<big>[https://thehungersite.greatergood.com/ The Hunger Site]</big> - Donate food to the hungry by clicking once a day
 
Donate your spare computing resources to advance science and <big>[https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=ZH0F0ZTTB2 Join Team Consumerium.org on World Community Grid by following this link]</big>.
 
== Get in touch ==
 
[[Social media#Twitter|Twitter]]: [https://twitter.com/ConsumeriumORG @ConsumeriumORG] and [https://twitter.com/kuluttajisto @Kuluttajisto in Finnish]
 
[[Social media#Facebook|Facebook]]: [https://www.facebook.com/ConsumeriumORG/ @ConsumeriumORG] and [https://www.facebook.com/kuluttajisto/ @Kuluttajisto in Finnish]
 
[[Diaspora]]* free social media network: [https://d.consumium.org/u/consumerium consumerium@d.consumium.org]
 
[[w:IRC|w:IRC]]: #Consumerium on [[w:Libera Chat]] network.
 
[[w:Signal (software)]], [[w:WhatsApp|w:WhatsApp]] or [[w:SMS|w:SMS]] to dedicated Consumerium hotline: +3584579416268 (no phone calls possible on sim)
 
Talk page: Write directly to the [[Lowest Troll|lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)'s]] [[User_talk:Jukeboksi|user talk page]]
 
Email from wiki: [[Special:EmailUser/Jukeboksi|e-mail Jukeboksi via the send email function]] of this MediaWiki (only for logged-in users) or call / sms at the number given [[User:Jukeboksi|here]]
 
== Thank yous for tech ==
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File:Heckert GNU.png|[[w:GNU|w:GNU's Not Unix]]..
File:Tux.png|.. but it has always helped [[w:Linux|w:Linux]] to be.
File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|Relying on [[MediaWiki]] to work towards the Consumerium goals since 2003.
File:Debian-OpenLogo.svg|Consumerium has been relying on copyleft [[w:Debian|w:Debian]] GNU/Linux Stable-branch servers since [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Debian Squeeze]. Debian is also Juho's choice for everyday OS.
Apache Feather Logo.svg|[[w:Apache HTTP Server|w:Apache HTTP Server]] has served Consumerium well for over 15 yrs. Consumium free social runs [[w:Nginx|w:Nginx]] a very nice copyleft web server.
File:Mariadb-seal-flat-browntext.png|Choice of RDBMS is [[w:MariaDB|w:MariaDB]], a fork back by the original people behind MySQL.
File:Matomo Logo.svg|[[Matomo]] - '''[https://matomo.org/ Matomo.org]''' is a [[w:free software|free]] and [[w:Open-source software|open source]] [[w:web analytics]] application originating from [[w:New Zealand]]
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[[File:Consumerium-org-is-hosted-in-green-at-hetzner-com.png|thumb|center|Consumerium.org is hosted at [https://www.hetzner.com/ Hetzner Online AG]'s Helsinki data center which uses electricity only from renewable sources. ([https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=develop.consumerium.org Verify])]]
 
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For editing practice, try playing in the [[Consumerium:Sandbox|Sandbox]].
 
== Footnotes ==
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Get in touch: [http://irc.lc/freenode/Consumium #Consumium] on [[w:freenode]] [[w:irc]] network. [https://d.consumium.org/u/juboxi d.consumium.org] [[Diaspora]]* pod ( since 2013 ). Follow @Consumium in [https://twitter.com/#!/Consumium twitter]. E-mail [[User:Juboxi]] via the send email function of this [[MediaWiki]] or call / sms the [[Lowest Troll|lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)]] at the number given [[User:Juxo|here]]
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Use [[w:Wikipedia]] to link to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia  (and [[m:]] to meta). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the [[GFDL]] part of the world after all :)
Use <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[w:Fairtrade]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki> to link to Wikipedia's article on fairtrade and <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[w:fr:Commerce équitable]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki> to link to the article in the French Wikipedia as simple as that. ( works for all languages, just insert [[w:List of ISO 639-1 codes|w:the correct lang code]] ). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the [[GFDL]] part of the world after all :)

Latest revision as of 18:37, 13 August 2023


Consumerium - Enhancing Consumer Informedness since 2002 - Kuluttajisto - Kuluttajien voimaannuttamista jo vuodesta 2002

Consum-er-ium-banner.png

Consumerium itself

w:Copyleft, totally a thing to do with all said to the right of this graphic. In Finnish it is w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus which translates to "user's right"


Consumerium itself is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of product information to consumers and feedback to producers and their owners in all countries of the world to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible. To this end Consumerium is compiling information on the countries of the world, technologies, convenience services for the consumer and more.

Our intent is to provide a knowledge graph and services for which we need infrastructure built with technologies.

The Consumerium development wiki turns 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.

Welcome, newcomers to our set of 1,173 Consumerium Effort development wiki articles crafted in the spirit of our philosophy where fairtrade, human rights in business, political consumerism, copyleft, free software, moral purchasing, w:consumer activism and w:shareholder activism are close to the core.

We are collaborating under the GFDL license, to design a healthy buying infrastructure. We are identifying hardware requirements for storage, transport and display of varying levels of product information to consumers and feedback to producers at the point of purchase to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.

Today is Monday 25 November 2024 and it is week #48. The wiki has 4,272 pages out of which 1,173 are articles with 51,040 edits. There are 36 uploaded files.

There are 68,093 registered users out of which 4 users are admin. Today the wiki is running on mw:MediaWiki 1.39.10 (2967077).

Consumerium.org domain root landing page Wordpress explains the core of Consumerium with links to this wiki and Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org the same thing in Finnish[footnote 1]

Welcom to Trollböle, west bank of the Former Aral Sea Shores. No, seriously, keeping all production servers in w:Finland to make w:jurisdiction certain. w:The laws of Finland are quite rational. Read for yourself, if you don't believe: most of it is in translations here.

Consumerium's lists of constructive services

The new bilingual (English && Finnish) A6 cards for Consumerium.org arrived in July 2020.

Lists of shared and alternative transport and traveler routers
Lists of review aggregators and review sites
Lists of price comparison services
Lists of alternative financial services
List of free education
Countries of the world is where the local information relevant to Consumerium goals is gathered
and much more in the Consumerium list of lists


Some key articles

Timeline of Consumerium is work eternally in progress. Currently it is year 2021.

How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell - a timeless classic from 2004

Planned Features to The Consumer - Consumerium Services ( messy ) - Planned Consumer Agent app

The Executive Summary page is a 5 minute read to Consumerium.

Human rights and business

Quotes

“Ethical consumerism is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of w:dollar voting. It is practiced through 'positive buying' in that ethical products are favoured, or 'moral boycott', that is negative purchasing and company-based purchasing.”

“Consumism.”

~ User:Jukeboksi on how neo can into logism (more)

Visit also these sites

For decision makers

TraffikAnalysis.org anti-trafficking data hub by StopTheTraffik.org and IBM

FRDM.co offers for-a-fee services that find and fix risks in supply chains

Be a conscientious consumer

OpenFoodFacts.org OFF is a non-political effort to crowdsource and copyleft information on food.

EthicalConsumer.org ( UK ) and their Global directory to ethical consumption

ResponsibleShopper at greenamerica.org ( USA )

TheGoodShoppingGuide.com ( UK )

Buycott.com a mobile and web app with same goals as Consumerium: consumer empowerment.

Share your consumer experiences

Alternatives to TrustPilot or TrustPilot.com

Be a part of the activist momentum

CorporateWatch.org

SumOfUs.org ( World-wide activist effort )

Utopia.de ( Deutsch )

Be smart about computer issues

AlternativeTo.net crowdsourced software and website recommendations

The Green Web Foundation (.org) Green hosting selection site and browser add-on

BuiltWith.com see what websites are made with (few free samples without free account, some more with a free account and paid accounts up-to-unlimited searches)

The SAFE Network (.tech) get clued into the next distributed Internet

Free Software Foundation's giving guide v6

Do philantropy

The Hunger Site - Donate food to the hungry by clicking once a day

Donate your spare computing resources to advance science and Join Team Consumerium.org on World Community Grid by following this link.

Get in touch

Twitter: @ConsumeriumORG and @Kuluttajisto in Finnish

Facebook: @ConsumeriumORG and @Kuluttajisto in Finnish

Diaspora* free social media network: consumerium@d.consumium.org

w:IRC: #Consumerium on w:Libera Chat network.

w:Signal (software), w:WhatsApp or w:SMS to dedicated Consumerium hotline: +3584579416268 (no phone calls possible on sim)

Talk page: Write directly to the lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)'s user talk page

Email from wiki: e-mail Jukeboksi via the send email function of this MediaWiki (only for logged-in users) or call / sms at the number given here

Thank yous for tech


Consumerium.org is hosted at Hetzner Online AG's Helsinki data center which uses electricity only from renewable sources. (Verify)

For editing practice, try playing in the Sandbox.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The translation from Consumerium to Kuluttajisto was done by a bloke, whose name I cannot recall, on the ATTAC Finland bus trip to the Second European Social Forum 2003 in Paris by the time we had reached w:Töölö


Use [[w:Fairtrade]] to link to Wikipedia's article on fairtrade and [[w:fr:Commerce équitable]] to link to the article in the French Wikipedia as simple as that. ( works for all languages, just insert w:the correct lang code ). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the GFDL part of the world after all :)

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