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Consumerium - Enhancing Consumer Informedness since 2002 - Kuluttajisto - Kuluttajien voimaannuttamista jo vuodesta 2002

Consumerium itself

w:Copyleft, totally a thing to do with all said to the right of this graphic. In Finnish it is w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus which translates to "user's right"

Consumerium itself is a not-for-profit effort to enable display of product information to consumers and feedback to producers and their owners in all countries of the world to enhance the consumer experience and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible. To this end Consumerium is compiling information on the countries of the world, technologies, convenience services for the consumer and more.

Our intent is to provide a knowledge graph and services for which we need infrastructure built with technologies.

The Consumerium development wiki turns 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.

Welcome, newcomers to our set of 1,173 Consumerium Effort development wiki articles crafted in the spirit of our philosophy where fairtrade, human rights in business, political consumerism, copyleft, free software, moral purchasing, w:consumer activism and w:shareholder activism are close to the core.

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.

Today is Tuesday 30 April 2024 and it is week #18. The wiki has 4,272 pages out of which 1,173 are articles with 51,018 edits. There are 36 uploaded files.

There are 68,093 registered users out of which 4 users are admin. Today the wiki is running on mw:MediaWiki 1.39.7 (374d95c).

Consumerium.org domain root landing page Wordpress explains the core of Consumerium with links to this wiki and Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org the same thing in Finnish^{[footnote 1]}

Welcom to Trollböle, west bank of the Former Aral Sea Shores. No, seriously, keeping all production servers in w:Finland to make w:jurisdiction certain. w:The laws of Finland are quite rational. Read for yourself, if you don't believe: most of it is in translations here.

Consumerium's lists of constructive services

The new bilingual (English && Finnish) A6 cards for Consumerium.org arrived in July 2020.

Lists of shared and alternative transport and traveler routers

Lists of review aggregators and review sites

Lists of price comparison services

Lists of alternative financial services

List of free education

Countries of the world is where the local information relevant to Consumerium goals is gathered

and much more in the Consumerium list of lists

Some key articles

Timeline of Consumerium is work eternally in progress. Currently it is year 2021.

How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell - a timeless classic from 2004

Planned Features to The Consumer - Consumerium Services ( messy ) - Planned Consumer Agent app

The Executive Summary page is a 5 minute read to Consumerium.

Human rights and business

Quotes

“Ethical consumerism is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of w:dollar voting. It is practiced through 'positive buying' in that ethical products are favoured, or 'moral boycott', that is negative purchasing and company-based purchasing.”
~ Wikipedia on w:Ethical consumerism

“Consumism.”
~ User:Jukeboksi on how neo can into logism (more)

Visit also these sites

For decision makers

TraffikAnalysis.org anti-trafficking data hub by StopTheTraffik.org and IBM

FRDM.co offers for-a-fee services that find and fix risks in supply chains

Be a conscientious consumer

OpenFoodFacts.org OFF is a non-political effort to crowdsource and copyleft information on food.

EthicalConsumer.org ( UK ) and their Global directory to ethical consumption

ResponsibleShopper at greenamerica.org ( USA )

TheGoodShoppingGuide.com ( UK )

Buycott.com a mobile and web app with same goals as Consumerium: consumer empowerment.

Share your consumer experiences

Alternatives to TrustPilot or TrustPilot.com

Be a part of the activist momentum

CorporateWatch.org

SumOfUs.org ( World-wide activist effort )

Utopia.de ( Deutsch )

Be smart about computer issues

AlternativeTo.net crowdsourced software and website recommendations

The Green Web Foundation (.org) Green hosting selection site and browser add-on

BuiltWith.com see what websites are made with (few free samples without free account, some more with a free account and paid accounts up-to-unlimited searches)

The SAFE Network (.tech) get clued into the next distributed Internet

Free Software Foundation's giving guide v6

Do philantropy

The Hunger Site - Donate food to the hungry by clicking once a day

Donate your spare computing resources to advance science and Join Team Consumerium.org on World Community Grid by following this link.

Get in touch

Twitter: @ConsumeriumORG and @Kuluttajisto in Finnish

Facebook: @ConsumeriumORG and @Kuluttajisto in Finnish

Diaspora* free social media network: consumerium@d.consumium.org

w:IRC: #Consumerium on w:Libera Chat network.

w:Signal (software), w:WhatsApp or w:SMS to dedicated Consumerium hotline: +3584579416268 (no phone calls possible on sim)

Talk page: Write directly to the lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)'s user talk page

Email from wiki: e-mail Jukeboksi via the send email function of this MediaWiki (only for logged-in users) or call / sms at the number given here

Thank yous for tech

w:GNU's Not Unix..
.. but it has always helped w:Linux to be.
Relying on MediaWiki to work towards the Consumerium goals since 2003.
Consumerium has been relying on copyleft w:Debian GNU/Linux Stable-branch servers since Debian Squeeze. Debian is also Juho's choice for everyday OS.
w:Apache HTTP Server has served Consumerium well for over 15 yrs. Consumium free social runs w:Nginx a very nice copyleft web server.
Choice of RDBMS is w:MariaDB, a fork back by the original people behind MySQL.
Matomo - Matomo.org is a free and open source w:web analytics application originating from w:New Zealand

Consumerium.org is hosted at Hetzner Online AG's Helsinki data center which uses electricity only from renewable sources. (Verify)

For editing practice, try playing in the Sandbox.

Footnotes

↑ The translation from Consumerium to Kuluttajisto was done by a bloke, whose name I cannot recall, on the ATTAC Finland bus trip to the Second European Social Forum 2003 in Paris by the time we had reached w:Töölö

Use [[w:Fairtrade]] to link to Wikipedia's article on fairtrade and [[w:fr:Commerce équitable]] to link to the article in the French Wikipedia as simple as that. ( works for all languages, just insert w:the correct lang code ). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the GFDL part of the world after all :)

[1] The translation from Consumerium to Kuluttajisto was done by a bloke, whose name I cannot recall, on the ATTAC Finland bus trip to the Second European Social Forum 2003 in Paris by the time we had reached w:Töölö

[footnote 1]

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