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[[Fair trade]], [[political consumerism]] and [[moral purchasing]] trends are coming together to create what we call '''''[[moral purchasing power]]''''':


[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.  We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of [[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s at the [[point of purchase]].  We hope to be part of an evolving [[healthy signal infrastructure]] that all [[essential projects]] can participate in.  ''Also see the '''[[Consumerium:FAQ]]''' about the project itself.  Here is a summary of '''[[Consumerium Services]]''' of interest to the end user:''
<big>'''''Consumerium''''' - ''Enhancing Consumer Informedness'' since 2002 - '''''Kuluttajisto''''' - ''Kuluttajien voimaannuttamista'' jo vuodesta 2002 </big>


:Advice (the [[Consumerium buying signal]]) will probably be seen by the [[end user]] as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|yellow]]/[[green light]] traffic-type signal, or as a [[score]] easily translated into a [[price premium]], or as a note in [[Simple English]] about issues with, or merits of, the product.  All rely on [[Signal Wiki]] comments compiled by software using a [[wikitext standard]]. [[Semantic link]] standards may be required also.  A deeper [[Research Wiki]] backs the signal and permits arbitrary [[faction]] debate, development of [[individual buying criteria|individual]] and [[institutional buying criteria]].
[[Image:Consum-er-ium-banner.png]]


:Realtime release of this advice (in whatever form) to a [[worn device]] is keyed to [[bar code]]s. It may rely on frequently updated data embedded in [[worn device]]s, and/or dynamic retrieval via [[short-range wireless]] to the [[retail shelf]].  Where possible, reasons for making buying decisions, or refusing a certain product, will go as [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s via the [[Research Wiki]].  This will affect [[institutional buying criteria]] at[[Consumerium Service access|all points in the supply chain]], enhance the consumer experience by providing a feeling of power, advance improved product development and keep this planet as hospitable as possible for human and other natural life.
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= Consumerium itself =
 
[[File:Copyleft.svg|thumb|left|120px|[[w:Copyleft|w:Copyleft]], totally a thing to do with all said to the right of this graphic. In Finnish it is [[w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus|w:fi:käyttäjänoikeus]] which translates to "user's right"]]
 
 
[[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]].
 
Our intent is to provide '''[[Knowledge graphs|a knowledge graph]]'''  and '''[[services]]''' for which we need [[infrastructure]] built with '''[[technologies]]'''.
 
<big>'''The [[Consumerium development wiki turns 20]]'''</big> on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.
 
[[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.
 
Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.  The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits. There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]].
 
There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users out of which {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} users are admin. Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.
 
<big>[https://consumerium.org/ Consumerium.org domain root landing page Wordpress]</big> explains the core of Consumerium with links to this wiki and [https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/ Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org]</big> the same thing in Finnish<ref group="footnote">The translation from Consumerium to Kuluttajisto was done by a bloke, whose name I cannot recall, on the [[w:Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action|ATTAC]] Finland bus trip to the [[w:European Social Forum#Second ESF|Second European Social Forum]] 2003 in Paris by the time we had reached [[w:Töölö]]</ref>
 
[[Image:Trollboele.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Welcom to Trollböle, west bank of the [[Former Aral Sea Shores]]. No, seriously, keeping all production servers in [[w:Finland|w:Finland]] to make [[w:jurisdiction|w:jurisdiction]] certain. [[w:law of Finland|w:The laws of Finland]] are quite rational. Read for yourself, if you don't believe: most of it is in translations [https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/ here].]]
 
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== Consumerium's lists of constructive services ==
 
[[File:Consumerium.org-A6-cards-winter-clear.png|thumb|right|682px|The new bilingual (English && Finnish) A6 cards for Consumerium.org arrived in July 2020.]]
<section begin=Consumerium.org lists />
<big>
:[[Lists of shared and alternative transport and traveler routers]]
 
:[[Lists of review aggregators and review sites]]
 
:[[Lists of price comparison services]]


We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below.  '''Any page can be edited by anyone''', or [[revert|restored to a previous state]] by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this (combined) [[Research Wiki|Research]] and [[Development Wiki]];  Please see [[What Consumerium RD Wiki is not]], [[guidelines]] and [[rules]] for do's and dont's'''
:[[Lists of alternative financial services]]


<center>
:[[List of free education]]
===Selected articles===
 
:[[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]]
</big>
<section end=Consumerium.org lists />
 
== Some key articles ==
'''[[Timeline of Consumerium]]''' is work eternally in progress. Currently it is year '''[[Timeline of Consumerium#2021|2021]]'''.
 
'''[[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]]
 
<big>'''[[Consumerium:Executive summary|The Executive Summary page]]'''</big> is a 5 minute read to Consumerium.
 
<big>'''[[Human rights and business]]'''</big>


'''[[Links|Looking for info on companies and products now?]]''' - '''[[Features|Planned Features to The Consumer]]''' - '''[[Consumerium Services]]'''<br>'''[[Opinion Wiki]]''' - '''[[Content Wiki]]''' - '''[[The Consumerium Exchange]]''' - '''[[Design paradigm|Current Design Paradigm]]''' - '''[[Essential projects]]'''<br>
'''[[Fairtrade On Demand]]''', '''[[Consumerium User Stories]]'''
</center>
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<tr>
== Quotes ==
<td>
 
===New to Consumerium or Wiki?===
{{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]]}}
* [[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]]
 
* [[Motivation]]
{{Q|'''Consumism'''.|[[User:Jukeboksi]]|how neo can into logism ([[User:Jukeboksi/Quotes|more]])}}
* [[Features]]
 
* [[Consumerium:Philosophy|Philosophy]]
== Visit also these sites ==
* [[Consumerium:FAQ|FAQ]]
=== For decision makers ===
</td>
 
<td>
<big>[https://www.traffikanalysis.org/ '''TraffikAnalysis'''.org]</big> anti-trafficking data hub by [https://www.stopthetraffik.org/ StopTheTraffik.org] and IBM
===Ready to [[Contributing|contribute]]?===
 
* [[Research]]  
<big>[https://www.frdm.co/ '''FRDM.co''']</big> offers for-a-fee services that find and fix risks in supply chains
* [[Wikipedia]]
 
* [http://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]
=== Be a conscientious consumer ===
* [[wiktionary:Consumerium translation lists]]
 
* [[Consumerium:FAQ]]
<big>[https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ '''OpenFoodFacts'''.org]</big> [[Open Food Facts|OFF]] is a non-political effort to crowdsource and copyleft information on food.
</td>
 
<td>
<big>[https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ '''EthicalConsumer'''.org]</big> ( UK ) and their [https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/researchhub/globaldirectory.aspx Global directory to ethical consumption]
===[[Links]]===
 
* [[Wikipedia|Links To Wikipedia]]
<big>[https://www.greenamerica.org/responsible-shopper '''ResponsibleShopper''' at greenamerica.org]</big> ( USA )
* [[Essential projects]] - don't miss these!
 
* [[Interesting projects]]
<big>[https://www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/ '''TheGoodShoppingGuide'''.com]</big> ( UK )
* [[Interesting companies]]
 
* [[Interesting organisations]]
<big>[https://buycott.com/ '''Buycott'''.com]</big> a mobile and web app with same goals as Consumerium: consumer empowerment.
* [[Interesting software]]
 
* [[Research|Ongoing works in Wikipedia etc.]]
=== Share your consumer experiences ===
</td>
 
</tr>
<big>[https://alternativeto.net/software/trustpilot/ '''Alternatives to''' TrustPilot]</big> or <big> [https://www.trustpilot.com/ '''TrustPilot'''.com]</big>
<tr>
 
<td>
=== Be a part of the activist momentum ===
===[[Software]]===
 
* [[MediaWiki]] [[(NEW)]]
<big>[https://corporatewatch.org/ '''CorporateWatch'''.org]</big>
* [[MediaWiki modifications]]
 
* [[ConsuML]]  
<big>[http://SumOfUs.org '''SumOfUs'''.org]</big> ( World-wide activist effort )
* [[Sourceforge]]
 
* [[XML]]
<big>[https://www.utopia.de/ '''Utopia.de''']</big> ( Deutsch )
* [[XML/DTD]]
 
</td>
=== Be smart about computer issues ===
<td>
 
===[[Hardware]]===
<big>[https://alternativeto.net/ '''AlternativeTo'''.net]</big> crowdsourced software and website recommendations
* [[Hardware Requirements]]
 
* [[Bluetooth]]
<big>[https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ '''The Green Web Foundation''' (.org)]</big> Green hosting selection site and browser add-on
* [[Near Field Communication]] [[(NEW)]]
 
</td>
<big>[https://builtwith.com/ '''BuiltWith'''.com]</big> 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)
<td>
 
===Other===
<big>The '''[[SAFE Network]]''' [https://safenetwork.tech/ (.tech)]</big> get clued into the next distributed Internet
* [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]]
 
* [[Timeline of Consumerium]]
<big>[https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v6/ '''Free Software Foundation''''s giving guide v6]</big>
* [[Past]]
 
* [[Future]]
=== Do philantropy ===
* [[Goals]]
 
* [[Stages]]
<big>[https://thehungersite.greatergood.com/ The Hunger Site]</big> - Donate food to the hungry by clicking once a day
</td>
 
</tr>
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>.
</table>
 
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== Get in touch ==
Use [[w:Wikipedia]] to link to http://www.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia  (and [[m:]] to meta). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the [[GFDL]] part of the world after all :)
 
[[Social media#Twitter|Twitter]]: [https://twitter.com/ConsumeriumORG @ConsumeriumORG] and [https://twitter.com/kuluttajisto @Kuluttajisto in Finnish]
 
[[Social media#Facebook|Facebook]]: [https://www.facebook.com/ConsumeriumORG/ @ConsumeriumORG] and [https://www.facebook.com/kuluttajisto/ @Kuluttajisto in Finnish]
 
[[Diaspora]]* free social media network: [https://d.consumium.org/u/consumerium consumerium@d.consumium.org]
 
[[w:IRC|w:IRC]]: #Consumerium on [[w:Libera Chat]] network.
 
[[w:Signal (software)]], [[w:WhatsApp|w:WhatsApp]] or [[w:SMS|w:SMS]] to dedicated Consumerium hotline: +3584579416268 (no phone calls possible on sim)
 
Talk page: Write directly to the [[Lowest Troll|lowest troll and/or sysop(presseur)'s]] [[User_talk:Jukeboksi|user talk page]]
 
Email from wiki: [[Special:EmailUser/Jukeboksi|e-mail Jukeboksi via the send email function]] of this MediaWiki (only for logged-in users) or call / sms at the number given [[User:Jukeboksi|here]]
 
== Thank yous for tech ==
<section begin=thank-yous-for-tech />
<gallery>
File:Heckert GNU.png|[[w:GNU|w:GNU's Not Unix]]..
File:Tux.png|.. but it has always helped [[w:Linux|w:Linux]] to be.
File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|Relying on [[MediaWiki]] to work towards the Consumerium goals since 2003.
File:Debian-OpenLogo.svg|Consumerium has been relying on copyleft [[w:Debian|w:Debian]] GNU/Linux Stable-branch servers since [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Debian Squeeze]. Debian is also Juho's choice for everyday OS.
Apache Feather Logo.svg|[[w:Apache HTTP Server|w:Apache HTTP Server]] has served Consumerium well for over 15 yrs. Consumium free social runs [[w:Nginx|w:Nginx]] a very nice copyleft web server.
File:Mariadb-seal-flat-browntext.png|Choice of RDBMS is [[w:MariaDB|w:MariaDB]], a fork back by the original people behind MySQL.
File:Matomo Logo.svg|[[Matomo]] - '''[https://matomo.org/ Matomo.org]''' is a [[w:free software|free]] and [[w:Open-source software|open source]] [[w:web analytics]] application originating from [[w:New Zealand]]
</gallery>
<section end=thank-yous-for-tech />
 
[[File:Consumerium-org-is-hosted-in-green-at-hetzner-com.png|thumb|center|Consumerium.org is hosted at [https://www.hetzner.com/ Hetzner Online AG]'s Helsinki data center which uses electricity only from renewable sources. ([https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=develop.consumerium.org Verify])]]
 
</big>
 
For editing practice, try playing in the [[Consumerium:Sandbox|Sandbox]].
 
== Footnotes ==
<references group="footnote" />
 
 
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<sub>Thanks to http://pingviini.net for hosting us. Thanks to http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net for this great Wiki software</sub>
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 :)

Latest revision as of 18:37, 13 August 2023


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

Consum-er-ium-banner.png


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 Thursday 25 April 2024 and it is week #17. The wiki has 4,272 pages out of which 1,173 are articles with 51,014 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 1.39.6 (b81b0c1).

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.”

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


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

  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



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 :)