Consumerium plans as of 2013
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. Surely it 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 and redumping.
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 - installed and working.
- Extension:ConfirmEdit - installed and working.
Extension:VisualMathCaptchastrike this - supports only MediaWiki 1.16 and below - 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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