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| '''For now, this Research page is for contributing to and starting research projects.''' | | '''Research page is for contributing to and starting research projects.''' |
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| ==Research in Wikipedia==
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| ===Editors needed:===
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| * [[w:List of brand name food products]]
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| * [[w:List of company registers]]
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| * [[w:List of trade unions]]
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| * [[w:List of employer associations]]
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| * [[w:List of tariffs]]
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| * [[w:Lists of companies]]
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| * [[w:List of who owns what]] (growing)
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| * [[w:Economy of Earth]] (contains some interesting stuff, but it's not organised)
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| * [[w:Mandatory labelling]]
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| * [[w:Natural Step]]
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| * [[w:ISO14000]]
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| * [[w:Material input per unit of service]]
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| * [[w:List of traded commodities]]
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| ===Yet to be started:=== | | ===By country=== |
| * [[w:List of association registers]] (doesn't exist now) | | * [[Research/AU/How to find out who owns what]] (needs work, a stub) |
| * [[w:List of ethical funds]] (doesn't exist now) | | * [[Research/DE/How to find out who owns what]] |
| * [[w:List of non-governmental organisations]] (doesn't exist now) | | * [[Research/FI/How to find out who owns what]] (fairly comlete, needs details) |
| | | * [[Research/UK/How to find out who owns what]] |
| ===Fairly complete:===
| | * [[Research/US/How to find out who owns what]] |
| * [[w:List of advertisement agencies]] | | ... |
| * [[w:List of professions]] (very complete) | | ===By subject=== |
| * [[w:List of stock exchanges]] (very complete)
| | * [[Research/How to find out who owns what]] |
| * [[w:List of supermarkets]]
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| * [[w:List of reference tables]] Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here
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| === Deleted for some reason: ===
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| * [[w:SA8000]]
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| * [[w:List of packaging companies]]
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| ===[[w:Wikipedia:Wikiproject|Wikipedia:Wikiproject]]s:=== | |
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| * [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions]] | |
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| ===Other articles:===
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| | ===Research in Wikipedia=== |
| * [[w:Fair trade]] | | * [[w:Fair trade]] |
| * [[w:Safe trade]]
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| * [[w:Arms trade]]
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| * [[w:Global EAN Party Information Register]] (GEPIR) | | * [[w:Global EAN Party Information Register]] (GEPIR) |
| * [[w:GLN]] (doesn't exist now) | | *�[[w:GLN]] (doesn't exist now) |
| * [[w:Gross Global Product]] (doesn't exist now) | | * [[w:Gross Global Product]] (doesn't exist now) |
| * [[w:Ethical investing]] | | * [[w:Ethical investing]] |
| * [[w:Resin_identification_code]] (codes for [[plastic]] [[packaging]] and their [[recycle|recycling]]) | | * [[w:List of professions]] (very complete) |
| | * [[w:List of association registers]] (doesn't exist now) |
| | * [[w:List of company registers]] (doesn't exist now and I'm not sure if this is the correct title) |
| | * [[w:List of stock exchanges]] |
| | * [[w:List of supermarkets]] |
| | * [[w:List of ethical funds]] (doesn't exist now) |
| | * [[w:List of non-governmental organisations]] (doesn't exist now) |
| | * [[w:List of labor unions]] |
| | * [[w:List of employer associations]] |
| | * [[w:Lists of companies]] |
| | * [[w:List of reference tables]] Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here |
| | * [[w:Resin_identification_code]] (codes for [[plastic]] [[packaging]] and thier [[recycle|recycling]]) |
| * [[w:SSCC]] (doesn't exist now) | | * [[w:SSCC]] (doesn't exist now) |
| * [[w:Trade block]] | | * [[w:Trade block]] |
| * [[w:Trade bloc]] consisting of lots of ecoregions
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| * [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions]] | | * [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions]] |
| * [[w:Voting system]]
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| '''If you find something interesting in Wikipedia that seems to be complete (no need to research it further) please put it in [[Wikipedia|Interesting articles in Wikipedia]]'''
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| ===See also:===
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| * [[w:list of economics articles]]
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| * [[w:list of ethics articles]]
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| ==Research in Meta-Wikipedia ==
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| *'''[[m:Geospatial reference]] this just started and it's very important for proper utilization of Wikipedia for our content''' - includes most of [[m:spacetime_DTD]] but should also mention [[m:ecoregion_DTD]] for XML-based exchange with other services (insane to exchange data in anything but XML)
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| *[[m:Simple View of Ethics and Morals|Simple View of Ethics and Morals]] which even [[m:troll|troll]]s understand
| | If you find something interesting in Wikipedia that seems to be fairly complete (no need to research it further) please put it in [[Wikipedia|Interesting articles in Wikipedia]] |
| *[[m:twelve leverage points|Twelve leverage points]] for making Wikipedia work better - '''there are now [[twelve levers|equivalents for Consumerium]]'''
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| ==Research in Consumerium== | | ===Useful resources in doing research=== |
| ===Ownership===
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| ===By country===
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| * [[Research/AU/How to find out who owns what]] (needs work, a stub)
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| * [[Research/CA/How to find out who owns what]]
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| * [[Research/DE/How to find out who owns what]] (just a note that stock holdings are not public)
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| * [[Research/FI/How to find out who owns what]] (fairly complete, needs details)
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| * [[Research/FR/How to find out who owns what]]
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| * [[Research/NL/How to find out who owns what]] (stubby)
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| * [[Research/UK/How to find out who owns what]]
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| * [[Research/US/How to find out who owns what]]
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| ...
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| ===By subject===
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| * [[Research/How to find out who owns what]] see also [[who owns what]]
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| * [[Countries]] for consumer, worker, investor issues on countries
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| ===Locating Company information:===
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| * http://www.reportgallery.com/ - Links to over 2.200 Annual reports of Corporations
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| * http://www.europages.net/ - Links to over 500.000 European companies
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| * http://www.cjr.org/owners/ - Ownership relations of Media Companies
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| * http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/mediacarta/toolbox/who_owns/ - Ownership relations of media companies
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| ==Other places of research==
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| ===Research in SourceWatch===
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| *[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=truth truth] and [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=propaganda propaganda] - what is our [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=standard_of_evidence standard of evidence]?
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| *[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=propaganda_techniques propaganda techniques] used to [[spin]] or otherwise promote [[evil]]
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| *[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Little_tin_god_sysop bad sysop]s who destroy projects by trying to "[[save]]" them
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| *[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=neoclassical_philosophy bad philosophy] that creates bad [[political economy]]
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| ===Research in Wiktionary===
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| Translation work will begin soon in [[Wiktionary]]. I'll start a word and [[glossary]] list of what needs to be translated there just as soon as I figure out how do it properly.
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| ==Useful resources in doing research== | |
| The [[w:Open Directory Project]] at http://dmoz.org. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The contents are licensed under Open Directory License, which is a restrictive form of an [[w:Open content]] license. | | The [[w:Open Directory Project]] at http://dmoz.org. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The contents are licensed under Open Directory License, which is a restrictive form of an [[w:Open content]] license. |
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| Google offers a more sophisticated view to the contents of http://dmoz.org so here are some useful directories
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| * [http://directory.google.org/Top/Society/Issues/Business/Human_Rights/Sweatshops/ Google Directory on Sweatshops]
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| * [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Bar_Code/ Google Directory on Barcodes issues]
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