Editing Consumerpedia

'''The Consumerpedia''' is a [[GodKing]]-and-[[sysop power structure]]-based project to create a [[GFDL corpus]] resource specifically to enable [[moral purchasing]], which means only what the GodKing and his sysops say it means.

It claims to provide information that consumers need to develop strategies for engaging in moral purchasing and moral living, to evaluate the morality behind their purchases, and to locate enterprises or products they need.  It is a direct competitor to the [[Research Wiki]] in which [[Consumerium]] gathers similar information, but has no [[Consumerium:intermediate page|consistent template for such pages]].

It was initiated by [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] and it runs [[MediaWiki]]. Although its content is under [[GFDL]], it is guilty of some [[GFDL violation]]s already, which is not a good sign.   It might be useful as a gathering place for [[Company]] and [[Boycott]] info so that the [[Development Wiki]] can focus only on [[use case]]s that actually move us forward towards [[pilot project]]s.  However, it appears to simply be getting in the way of a real [[Research Wiki]] at this point.  Among other things it has no [[standard wiki URI]], i.e.

http://www.channel1.com/users/dkesh/consumerpedia/index.php/Main_Page

is relatively impossible to remember, and thus unfit to use as a real address.

== relationship ==

Something like Consumerpedia could be established and might work so well that it could become the [[Research Wiki]] - pages would be [[XML import]]ed to the [[Publish Wiki]] where they'd be turned into a [[Consumerium buying signal]], get only a final touch up for legal and language/translation/simplicity concerns, and reflect the [[buying criteria]] the user wants.  There'd be no work for "our own" [[Research Wiki]] to do!  

This sounds wonderful, but it's a fantasy.  Without more structure and extremely consistent naming, it's going to be impossible to tell which companies or products are violating what criteria. [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s are supposed to standardize that data in the [[Research Wiki]].  So, very likely, the [[best cases]] where we don't need it at all, aren't realistic, they're just [[visions]] worth working towards but not to be expected as an outcome.

Much more likely, [[Consumerpedia]], [[Recyclopedia]], [[Disinfopedia]] and [[Wikipedia]] will all serve in parallel as [[GFDL text corpus]] sources, and only limited standards will be applied in them all, hopefully based on terms and [[mandatory label]]s and [[comprehensive outcome]] names (like [[deforestation]], [[slavery]], [[ape extinction]]) that are already titles of articles in [[GFDL corpus]].  Deviating from such standard terms is a disaster, as, it makes it impossible to tell which [[buying criteria]] are being violated!  So, it's worth every effort to keep all four major sources in line, and to work hard to translate these terms consistently into all other languages (so far, only a concern at [[Wikipedia]])

This is a responsibility that [[User:Juxo]] and [[User:N8chz]] and [[User:Venceremos]] might choose to undertake, but which [[User:DanKeshet]] has so far actively resisted.  There's danger it may become an [[enemy projects|enemy project]], applying political norms unfit for any cooperation.  It is off to a bad start by violating the GFDL just to exclude some [[trolls]].

''See [[Research Wiki pilot]]s for some conditions of converging with other [[public wiki]]s.''