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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 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 | 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 did not have a [[standard wiki URI]] | ||
is relatively impossible to remember, and thus unfit to use as a real address. | is relatively impossible to remember, and thus unfit to use as a real address. | ||
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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! | 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! | ||
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''See [[Research Wiki pilot]]s for some conditions of converging with other [[public wiki]]s.'' | ''See [[Research Wiki pilot]]s for some conditions of converging with other [[public wiki]]s.'' | ||
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Its last known Internet address was www.channel1.com/users/dkesh/consumerpedia/index.php/Main_Page | |||