Consumerium plans as of 2013

Revision as of 18:50, 22 February 2012 by Jukeboksi (talk | contribs) (→‎Licensing: noting that there would be little sense to license the actual votes under any copy-left license)

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

  • Name
  • HQ location
  • Type (Types of companies) which evolved to w:en:Types of business entity
  • 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 and other Consumerium:Metrics
  • 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. Surelyit would make little sense to license the votes so keep them copyright of the user i.e. have the templates used for quick voting will be under CC-A-SA but the actual votes are not under GFDL or CC-A-SA.. Right ? This can be done by loading a dump into a temp database and deleting everything in the User-namespace.

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

Consumerium wiki structure

Primary structure

  1. consumerium.org/wiki/fi- Finnish langauge article space
  2. consumerium.org/wiki/en - English language article space
  3. 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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