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distinction between product and service in wiki and in practice. Workable start on Local vs. Global
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29.05.2005 | |||
I've been thinking about the [[Language vs. Area]] problemacy. I've been plotting a plan in my head that certain [[companies]] and [[product]]s they offer should be arranged by location ie. | |||
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[[FI/Tampere/SomeTex-MexRestaurant]] | |||
[[US/California/Santa Cruz/SomeBikeRepairShop]] | |||
[[CA/Ontario/Toronto/China Town/SpicccyChineseRestaurant]] | |||
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Thinking how this is not a workable arrangement for transnational [[corporation]]s to pinpoint them to their HQ... | |||
...but then something almost magical happened... I remembered something that I've been taught in school: '''There are [[Good]]s (tanglible) and [[Service]]s (intanglible)''', both of these are [[product]]s (This is how it is in the course books). The distinction between a service and a good is sometimes difficult to make. This is covered well in the [[w:Service]] article. | |||
-[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] goes to the [[store]] to buy bread. Is the store selling me a bread or is it selling me a services (sourcing, logistics, storage and other activities that enable me to consume the service leaving the store knowoing that I won't go hungry for a while now)? | |||
Some people argue strongly that all transactions should be viewed as services. See [[w:Service economy]] and/or [[Service economy]] on this view point. | |||
I'm currently thinking that companies selling services should be arranged into a tree-like structure so that the [[companies]] provoding [[service]]s would be close to each other in the article hierarchy. And, yes, I know how bad this solution is for performance (I can actually read and write [[w:SQL|SQL]] (!)... after all [[MediaWiki]] is developed for [[Wikipedia]] where the common wiki-way is to avoid sub-articles so it's not at all optimised to traverse up and down subarticle-trees. | |||
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