Consumerium plans as of 2013: Difference between revisions

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[[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]] [[lsb:ontology]] and datasets ( from [[categories]] and from [[infoboxen]] ).
[[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]] ).
 
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.
 
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.


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.
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.
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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]]
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]]


[[#Consumium wiki structure]] is much in a state of change at the moment.. 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>.
[[#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 ==
== Developers needed ==
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== Using Youtube to serve videos  ==
== Using Youtube to serve videos  ==


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