Editing Consumerium plans as of 2013

[[Technology]] especially FOSS ( Free and Open Source Software ) has a key role in making the Consumium [[goals]] possible. A lot has changed since 2002/2003, the [[means]] are here at reach to make Consumium work in the real world. [[#What kind of information Consumerium / Consumium plans to offer consumers on businesses?|lot of the information]] described in the [[Goals and means of the Consumerium project]] is available from [[DBpedia]] [[w:ontology]] and [[w:dataset]]s ( from [[categories]] and from [[infoboxen]] ).

[[MediaWiki]], it's extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[categories]], [[MediaWiki/extensions|extensions]], [[MediaWiki/widgets|widgets]] and [[MediaWiki/bots|bots]] ( all running on Debian GNU/Linux LAMP-servers-from-cloud ) need to be finetuned to work together.

Templates will be widely employed to add [[categories]] to articles.

== Costs of infrastructure ==
The most computer resources in the original plans were the means to serve the [[Advertisement Videos]] but today those can be embedded into wiki from youtube.com so that's taken care of and we require zero investent to enable serving videos.

== Manual work / automized work ==
The most human resources demanding was the entering of the [[Business]] and [[Product]] data but with the emergence of [[DBpedia]] we can have extensive datas on 40,000+ businesses fully automatically and many many other entities/articles.

== Issues needing resolving ==
The [[#licensing|licensing]] issue of whether to go with [[GFDL]] + CC-A-SA double licensing or just one of them needs to be well thought out and solved.

== Name change ==
In Spring 2012 the decision was made to [[#Changing the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium|change the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium]]

== Wiki structure ==
[[#Consumium wiki structure|Consumium wiki structure]] is much in a state of change at the moment, but the current design plan is to '''serve all languages from a single''' wiki much like [[Translatewiki]] is doing and to have a second wiki for file uploads ( like the commons ) and to use [[Single-signon]] with the two wikis, so that the user accounts are global.. With the coming of the [[Universal Language Selector]] we will likely adopt the form of <tt>/wiki/Article_name_in_English/fi</tt> instead of <tt>/wiki/fi/Artikkelin_nimi_suomeksi</tt>.

== Developers needed ==
[[Templates|Template]] designers to design templates obviously, [[Mediawiki]] [[MediaWiki/extensions|extension]] programmers to implement [[voting]] system and [[feedback]] delivery system

== 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 [[voting|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.

== Changing the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium ==
The [[Lowest Troll]] has unilaterally decided it's better to drop the letters "er" to arrive at the effort being named Consumium, instead of Consumerium and has registerd the domain http://consumium.org to be used for the [[Implementation Wiki]] meanwhile the [[Development Wiki]] ( this wiki ) may remain at it's usual http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/ address or be moved to develop.consumium.org , this is an open question of low urgency and importance.

== What kind of information Consumerium / Consumium plans to offer consumers on businesses? ==
* <tt>Name</tt> ( from [[DBpedia]] )
* <tt>HQ location</tt> - ( from [[DBpedia]] )
* <tt>Type ([[Types of companies]])</tt> which evolved to <tt>[[w:en:Types of business entity]]</tt> ( from [[DBpedia]] )
* <tt>Size range (activity) <nowiki><single location vendor>, <small and medium domestic>, <large domestic>, <international> <transnational> (operates on 3 or more</nowiki> continents.)</tt> from [[categories]] in [[Wikipedia]] and Consumium, see [[w:MNC]] [[w:Multi national corporation]], these are <international> at minimum and many are <transnational>s
* <tt>Size range (vested capital/assets ( from [[DBpedia]] ) comparisioned against the industry average and/or nominal and/or stockvalue ( from where ##economics gets them ) shown delayed) <u>if</u> a public [[corporation]])</tt>
* <tt>[[Employability]] ( years of employment provided / Million € of vested capital )</tt> and other <tt>[[Consumerium:Metrics]]</tt>
* <tt>[[Consumerium:Metrics|Payments Per Investment]]</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>
::: These last two will have to be recorded on a per [[w:locale]] basis obviously for which there are [[MediaWiki/extensions]] ( such as [[MediaWiki/extensions#LandingCheck|LandingCheck]] and [[MediaWiki/widgets]] ( such as the upcoming [[MediaWiki/widgets#Universal Language Selector]] to automize the process of displaying the info for the locale the [[Consumer]] is in according to her/his browser.
* <tt>What else...</tt>

== Consumium wiki structure == 
The old plans called for having two wikis either [[Research Wiki]] and [[Publish Wiki]] ( suggested by the [[trolls]], focus on distinction of researchable stuff from publishable stuff ) or [[Content Wiki]] and [[Opinion Wiki]] ( suggested by [[User:Juxo]], effort founder, focus on isolation of factual content from subjective opinions ) but currently it looks like those plans are scrapped in favor of having only one [[Implementation Wiki]] to minimize governmental overhead. The '''[[voting]] pages''' of users will be copyright of the page owner i.e. '''not [[copyleft]]ed''' and not included in the dumps for forking. The voting pages of users will be NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW to stop them from getting included in search engine results. Likely the talk-namespace will be NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW so that the talk-pages of articles will be the research side of it and the actual main-namespace articles will be the publish side of it

The upcoming [[MediaWiki/widgets#Universal Language Selector]] conforms to the MediaWiki style of having the language code coming after the article, not before it, though our method would be navigationally perhaps better.

=== Primary structure ===
#<tt>consumium.org/wiki/fi</tt>- Finnish langauge article space
#<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en</tt> - English language article space
#<tt>consumium.org/wiki/sv</tt> - Swedish language article space

(these are all the languages that [[User:Juxo|I]]'m fluent enough to [[sysopping|sysop]])

=== Ideas about using sub-articles extensively to avoid massive disambig collision ===
:<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Company/Brand/Product</tt>- For big corporations<br /> 
::<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Company/Feedback</tt> - for storing the feedbacks sent to the company via web-form or phone
::<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Company/Brand/Product/Reviews</tt> reviews of the product
:<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Company/Product</tt> - For smaller companies<br />
:<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Product</tt> - a redirect to Company/Brand/Product if Product name '''is not a company name'''<br />
:<tt>consumium.org/wiki/en/Country/City/District/Business</tt> (for businesses that have a few or one outlet(s))<br />

=== Sub-articleing vs. extensive and heavy use of categories ===
Not sure if sub-articleing is a good idea. using mediawiki's [[categories]] and/or [[namespaces]] instead to provide structures. Having subarticleing will affect search engine scoring differently from using categories. The idea to use subarticleing spans from 2005 and earlier as it was easy to implement automatical linking by listing all subpages and is perhaps not valid approach anymore

== MediaWiki extensions ==
See '''[[MediaWiki/Extensions]]''' for a newer list of potential implementation phase extensions.
* <tt>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Data Extension:Data]</tt> 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. [http://www.rastko.net/~nikola/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Here is an example of Extension:Data in action] great stuff
* <tt>[http://www.rastko.net/~nikola/wiki/index.php/Language Language extesion]</tt> - 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
* <tt>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist Extension:SpamBlacklist]</tt> - [[regex]]es against spammers - installed and working.
* <tt>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit Extension:ConfirmEdit]</tt> - installed and working.
* <s><tt>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualMathCaptcha Extension:VisualMathCaptcha]</tt></s> strike this - supports only MediaWiki 1.16 and below - anti-bot measure. See [[w:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] if you don't know what it is

== 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 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=Coca+Cola&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1 Commons images for "Coca Cola"] or [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=Logos+of+companies+in+Quebec&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1 logos of companies in Quebec] etc.

<tt>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.</tt>

== Using Youtube to serve videos  ==

[[Ads]] and [[Anti-ad]]s can be served from Youtube to [[mobile device|mobile]] or desktop devices using the [[MediaWiki/Widgets#Youtube|Youtube-widget]].