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= Consumerium itself =

[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] is a not-for-profit effort to enable '''display''' of '''[[Features|product information]]''' to '''[[consumer]]s''' 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]]''', [[Consumerium list of lists#Consumerium lists of consumer convenience services|convenience services for the consumer]] and [[Consumerium list of lists|more]].

[[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]] to our set of <font color="blue"> {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</font> [[Consumerium]] Effort [[development wiki]] [[Special:Allpages|articles]] crafted in the spirit of [[Consumerium:We|our]] [[Consumerium:philosophy|philosophy]] where [[fairtrade]], [[Human rights and business|human rights in business]], [[political consumerism]], [[copyleft]], [[free software]], [[moral purchasing]], [[w:consumer activism|w:consumer activism]] and [[w:Activist shareholder|w:shareholder activism]] are close to the core.

We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licenses|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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:[[Lists of shared and alternative transport and traveler routers]]

:[[Lists of alternative financial services]]

:[[Countries of the world]]</big> is where the local information relevant to Consumerium goals is gathered

: and <big>[[Consumerium list of lists|much more in the Consumerium list of lists]]

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== Some key articles ==

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

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

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== Quotes ==

{{Q|'''Ethical consumerism''' is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of [[w:dollar voting|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|[[w:Ethical consumerism|w:Ethical consumerism]]}}

<big>[https://www.traffikanalysis.org/ '''TraffikAnalysis'''.org]</big> anti-trafficking data hub by [https://www.stopthetraffik.org/ StopTheTraffik.org] and IBM

<big>[https://www.frdm.co/ '''FRDM.co''']</big> offers for-a-fee services that find and fix risks in supply chains

<big>[https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ '''OpenFoodFacts'''.org]</big> [[Open Food Facts|OFF]] is a non-political effort to crowdsource and copyleft information on food.

<big>[https://www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/ '''TheGoodShoppingGuide'''.com]</big> ( UK )

<big>[https://buycott.com/ '''Buycott'''.com]</big> a mobile and web app with same goals as Consumerium: consumer empowerment.

<big>[https://alternativeto.net/software/trustpilot/ '''Alternatives to''' TrustPilot]</big> or <big> [https://www.trustpilot.com/ '''TrustPilot'''.com]</big>  

<big>[https://corporatewatch.org/ '''CorporateWatch'''.org]</big>

<big>[https://www.utopia.de/ '''Utopia.de''']</big> ( Deutsch )

<big>[https://alternativeto.net/ '''AlternativeTo'''.net]</big> crowdsourced software and website recommendations

<big>[https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v6/ '''Free Software Foundation''''s giving guide v6]</big>

<big>[https://thehungersite.greatergood.com/ The Hunger Site]</big> - Donate food to the hungry by clicking once a day

Donate your spare computing resources to advance science and <big>[https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=ZH0F0ZTTB2 Join Team Consumerium.org on World Community Grid by following this link]</big>.

== Get in touch ==

[[Diaspora]]* free social media network: [https://d.consumium.org/u/consumerium consumerium@d.consumium.org]  

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For editing practice, try playing in the [[Consumerium:Sandbox|Sandbox]].

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Use <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[w:Fairtrade]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki> to link to Wikipedia's article on fairtrade and <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[w:fr:Commerce équitable]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki> to link to the article in the French Wikipedia as simple as that. ( works for all languages, just insert [[w:List of ISO 639-1 codes|w:the correct lang code]] ). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the [[GFDL]] part of the world after all :)