Consumerium plans as of 2013: Difference between revisions

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What kind of information Consumerium plans to offer consumers on companies?

Name
HQ location
Type (Types of companies)
Size range (activity) <single location vendor>, <small and medium domestic>, <large domestic>, <international> <transnational> (operates on 3 or more continents.)
Size range (vested capital and/or nominal and/or stockvalue shown delayed) if a corporation)
Employability
Link to their feedback page (or shoutbox or such as)
Their toll-free number (or a toll number if no toll-free line is supplied
What else...

Licensing

I think Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License is a natural choice but I'm not sure

Images via $wgForeignFileRepos

We can have Company logos etc. from Wikimedia Commons, no need to upload a gazillion logos just for use in Consumerium. See Commons images for "Coca Cola" or logos of companies in Quebec etc.

from wm-bot: InstantCommons is a feature for MediaWiki 1.16+ that allows any MediaWiki installation to use media on the Wikimedia Commons. This has basically been realized via $wgForeignFileRepos. See <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos>. If you're only looking to use images from Wikimedia Commons and no other wikis, you can use the shortcut setting $wgUseInstantCommons to true.

MediaWiki extensions

Extension:Data In this extension data is described by item/key/value triplets, where 'item' is typically the name of the article, 'key' the name of the data, and 'value' the actual data. Here is an example of Extension:Data in action great stuff
Language extesion - this is really excellent. it allows to have multi-lingual pages. Must learn more about this mysterious and evasive extension - it's not listed in mediawiki.org extension matrix - also changes the language of the mediawiki navigation
Extension:SpamBlacklist - regexes against spammers
Extension:VisualMathCaptcha - anti-bot measure. See CAPTCHA if you don't know what it is

Consumerium wiki structure

Primary structure

consumerium.org/wiki/fi- Finnish langauge article space
consumerium.org/wiki/en - English language article space
consumerium.org/wiki/sv - Swedish language article space

(these are all the languages that I'm fluent enough to sysop)

Ideas about using sub-articles extensively to avoid massive disambig collision

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Company/Brand/Product- For big corporations

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Company/Feedback - for storing the feedbacks sent to the company via web-form or phone

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Company/Brand/Product/Reviews reviews of the product

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Company/Product - For smaller companies

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Product - a redirect to Company/Brand/Product if Product name is not a company name

consumerium.org/wiki/en/Country/City/District/Business (for businesses that have a few or one outlet(s))

Sub-articleing vs. extensive and heavy use of categories

not sure if sub-articleing is a good idea. using mediawiki's categories instead to provide nested structures

Using Youtube to serve videos

Adverts and Anti-adverts can be served from Youtube to mobile or desktop devices.

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 * <tt>Size range (activity) <nowiki><single location vendor>, <small and medium domestic>, <large domestic>, <international> <transnational> (operates on 3 or more</nowiki> continents.)</tt>
 * <tt>Size range (vested capital and/or nominal and/or stockvalue shown delayed) <u>if</u> a [[corporation]])</tt>
+* <tt>Employability</tt>
 * <tt>'''Link to their feedback page''' (or shoutbox or such as)</tt>
 * <tt>'''Their toll-free number''' (or a toll number if no toll-free line is supplied</tt>