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Research in Wikipedia

Editors needed:

w:List of company registers (Currently listing FI,IE,NL,PK,SE)
w:List of trade unions (Currently listing only UK, AU, FI, some of FR, NL)
w:List of employer associations (Currently a stub with some info on AU, FI, FR, ME, NL, UK)
w:List of tariffs
w:Lists of companies
w:List of who owns what (a skeleton at the moment)
w:Economy of Earth (contains some interesting stuff, but it's not organised)
w:Mandatory labelling
w:SA8000

Yet to be started:

w:List of advertisement agencies (by country) (doesn't exist now)
w:List of association registers (doesn't exist now)
w:List of ethical funds (doesn't exist now)
w:List of non-governmental organisations (doesn't exist now)

Fairly complete:

w:List of professions (very complete)
w:List of stock exchanges (very complete)
w:List of supermarkets
w:List of reference tables Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here

Wikipedia:Wikiprojects:

w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions

Research in Meta-Wikipedia

m:Geospatial reference this just started and it's very important for proper utilization of Wikipedia for our content - includes most of m:spacetime_DTD but should also mention m:ecoregion_DTD for XML-based exchange with other services (insane to exchange data in anything but XML)

Simple View of Ethics and Morals which even trolls understand
Twelve leverage points for making Wikipedia work better - there are now equivalents for Consumerium

Research in Consumerium

Ownership

By country

Research/AU/How to find out who owns what (needs work, a stub)
Research/CA/How to find out who owns what
Research/DE/How to find out who owns what (just a note that stock holdings are not public)
Research/FI/How to find out who owns what (fairly complete, needs details)
Research/FR/How to find out who owns what
Research/UK/How to find out who owns what
Research/US/How to find out who owns what

...

By subject

Research/How to find out who owns what

Locating Company information:

http://www.reportgallery.com/ - Links to over 2.200 Annual reports of Corporations
http://www.europages.net/ - Links to over 500.000 European companies
http://www.cjr.org/owners/ - Ownership relations of Media Companies
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/mediacarta/toolbox/who_owns/ - Ownership relations of media companies

Other places of research

Research in Disinfopedia

truth and propaganda - what is our standard of evidence?
propaganda techniques used to spin or otherwise promote evil
bad sysops who destroy projects by trying to "save" them
bad philosophy that creates bad political economy

Research in Wiktionary

Translation work will begin soon in Wiktionary. I'll start a word and glossary list of what needs to be translated there just as soon as I figure out how do it properly.

Useful resources in doing research

The w:Open Directory Project at http://dmoz.org. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The contents are licensed under Open Directory License, which is a restrictive form of an w:Open content license.

Google offers a more sophisticated view to the contents of http://dmoz.org so here are some useful directories

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 ==Research in Wikipedia==
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-* [[w:List of company registers]] (Currently listing FI,IE,PK,SE)
+* [[w:List of company registers]] (Currently listing FI,IE,NL,PK,SE)
 * [[w:List of trade unions]] (Currently listing only UK, AU, FI, some of FR, NL)
 * [[w:List of employer associations]] (Currently a stub with some info on AU, FI, FR, ME, NL, UK)