Editing Research

'''For now, this Research page is for contributing to and starting research projects.'''
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==Research in Wikipedia==
===Editors needed:===
* [[w:List of brand name food products]]
* [[w:List of company registers]]
* [[w:List of trade unions]]
* [[w:List of employer associations]]
* [[w:List of tariffs]]
* [[w:Lists of companies]]
* [[w:List of who owns what]] (growing)
* [[w:Economy of Earth]] (contains some interesting stuff, but it's not organised)
* [[w:Mandatory labelling]]
* [[w:Natural Step]]
* [[w:ISO14000]]
* [[w:SA8000]]
* [[w:Material input per unit of service]]
* [[w:List of packaging companies]]
* [[w:List of traded commodities]]

===Yet to be started:===
* [[w:List of association registers]] (doesn't exist now)
* [[w:List of ethical funds]] (doesn't exist now)
* [[w:List of non-governmental organisations]] (doesn't exist now)

===Fairly complete:===
* [[w:List of advertisement agencies]]
* [[w:List of professions]] (very complete)
* [[w:List of stock exchanges]] (very complete)
* [[w:List of supermarkets]] 
* [[w:List of reference tables]] Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here

===[[w:Wikipedia:Wikiproject|Wikipedia:Wikiproject]]s:===

* [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions]]

===Other articles:===

* [[w:Fair trade]]
* [[w:Safe trade]]
* [[w:Arms trade]]
* [[w:Global EAN Party Information Register]] (GEPIR)
* [[w:GLN]] (doesn't exist now)
* [[w:Gross Global Product]] (doesn't exist now)
* [[w:Ethical investing]]
* [[w:Resin_identification_code]] (codes for [[plastic]] [[packaging]] and their [[recycle|recycling]])
* [[w:SSCC]] (doesn't exist now)
* [[w:Trade block]]
* [[w:Trade bloc]] consisting of lots of ecoregions
* [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions]]
* [[w:Voting system]]

'''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]]'''

===See also:===
* [[w:list of economics articles]]
* [[w:list of ethics articles]]
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==Research in Meta-Wikipedia ==

*'''[[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)

*[[m:Simple View of Ethics and Morals|Simple View of Ethics and Morals]] which even [[m:troll|troll]]s understand
*[[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==
===Ownership===

===By country===
* [[Research/AU/How to find out who owns what]] (needs work, a stub)
* [[Research/CA/How to find out who owns what]]
* [[Research/DE/How to find out who owns what]] (just a note that stock holdings are not public)
* [[Research/FI/How to find out who owns what]] (fairly complete, needs details)
* [[Research/FR/How to find out who owns what]]
* [[Research/NL/How to find out who owns what]] (stubby)
* [[Research/UK/How to find out who owns what]]
* [[Research/US/How to find out who owns what]]
...

===By subject===
* [[Research/How to find out who owns what]] see also [[who owns what]]
* [[Countries]] for consumer, worker, investor issues on countries

===Locating Company information:===
* http://www.reportgallery.com/ - Links to over 2.200 Annual reports of Corporations
* http://www.europages.net/ - Links to over 500.000 European companies
* http://www.cjr.org/owners/ - Ownership relations of Media Companies
* http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/mediacarta/toolbox/who_owns/ - Ownership relations of media companies
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==Other places of research==
===Research in SourceWatch===

*[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]?
*[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=propaganda_techniques propaganda techniques] used to [[spin]] or otherwise promote [[evil]]
*[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Little_tin_god_sysop bad sysop]s who destroy projects by trying to "[[save]]" them
*[http://sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=neoclassical_philosophy bad philosophy] that creates bad [[political economy]]
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===Research in Wiktionary===

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.

Google offers a more sophisticated view to the contents of http://dmoz.org so here are some useful directories

* [http://directory.google.org/Top/Society/Issues/Business/Human_Rights/Sweatshops/ Google Directory on Sweatshops]
* [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Bar_Code/ Google Directory on Barcodes issues]