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Consumerium / Consumium - Enhancing consumer informedness

Welcome, newcomers to Consumerium Development Wiki, where fair trade, political consumerism, Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS ) and moral purchasing trends, all essential to our philosophy, are being pieced together into what we call moral purchasing power by the means of providing consumers means and opportunity to consort by enabling services ( which are provided on infrastructure that consumes resources and is built with technologies ).

Consumerium itself is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.

We are collaborating under the GFDL license, to design a healthy buying infrastructure. We are identifying hardware requirements for storage, transport and display of varying levels of product information to consumers and feedback to producers at the point of purchase to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.

Plans regarding the voting were finished in December 2012. Voting results ( obs. plural ), reviews, feedback and links and linked data are the four key components of a view on a business.

In Consumerium plans as of 2013 there are various issues which need to be resolved

Facts and numbers for calculating most of the Consumerium:Metrics are available from 2 sources - DBpedia and Wikidata for tens of thousands of businesses.

Get in touch: #Consumium on w:freenode w:irc network. Follow @Consumium in twitter or Consumium in facebook ( All tweets are automatically posted to facebook ) E-mail c o n s u m i u m @ g m a i l . c o m or call / sms the lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur) at the number given here

A couple of ways to start exploring Consumerium are the Brief introduction and Consumerium:FAQ articles. There are also other essential projects, such as Simple English Wikipedia (.org) and Sourcewatch.org and many others that we hope to introduce you to.

There are currently 1,173 articles of Consumerium development related work.

Managers wondering about the impact of this on their business should read The Executive Summary page.

Also visit these:

Responsible Shopper

The HungerSite

Ethical Consumer

Our Links offer a comprehensive list of moral purchasing related information resources and other sites of use to the consumer such as Price comparison services and Review aggregators and review sites.

Proceed to the Out of date Article hub Out of date for more access points to this wiki.

For editing practice, try playing in the Sandbox.

Selected articles

Looking for info on companies and products now? - Planned Features to The Consumer - Consumerium Services
Planned Research Wiki - Planned Publish Wiki
How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell

Use w:Wikipedia to link to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia (and m: to meta). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the GFDL part of the world after all :)

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 |[[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]] to [[Consumerium]] [[Development Wiki]], where [[fair trade]], [[political consumerism]], [[w:FOSS|Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS )]] and [[moral purchasing]] trends, all essential to our [[Consumerium:philosophy|philosophy]], are being pieced together into what we call '''moral purchasing power''' by the means of providing consumers means and opportunity to consort by enabling [[services]] ( which are provided on [[infrastructure]] that consumes [[resources]] and is built with [[technology|technologies]] ).
+[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s and [[feedback]] to the producers to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.
+We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for [[wiki|storage]], transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]] to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.
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 <font color="green">Plans regarding the</font> '''[[voting]]''' <font color="green"> were finished in December 2012</font>. Voting results ( obs. plural ), [[reviews]], [[feedback]] and [[links|links and linked data]] are the four key components of a view on a business.
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 Get in touch: #Consumium on [[w:freenode]] [[w:irc]] network. Follow @Consumium in [https://twitter.com/#!/Consumium twitter] or [http://www.facebook.com/Consumium Consumium in facebook] ( All tweets are automatically posted to facebook ) E-mail c o n s u m i u m @ g m a i l . c o m or call / sms the [[Lowest Troll|lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)]] at the number given [[User:Juxo|here]]
-[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s and [[feedback]] to the producers to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.
 A couple of ways to start exploring Consumerium are the '''[[Brief introduction]]''' and '''[[Consumerium:FAQ]]''' articles.  There are also other '''[[essential projects]]''', such as '''[[Simple English Wikipedia]]''' [http://simple.wikipedia.org (.org)] and '''[[Sourcewatch]]'''[http://www.sourcewatch.org .org] and many others that we hope to introduce you to.
-We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for [[wiki|storage]], transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]] to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible.
 There are currently <font color="blue"> {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</font> [[Special:Allpages|articles]] of [[Development Wiki|Consumerium development]] related work.