Editing Timeline of Consumerium

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This is one and incomplete timeline of the Consumerium effort. 

Another is at [[Troll Timeline]] and [[MediaWiki]] article has a timeline of MW developments.

'''Nav'''
 
* [[#2000|2000]] - Idea of Consumerium appears to the [[Lowest Troll]]
* [[#2001|2001]] - Nothing much happens
* [[#2002|2002]] - Our first [http://kato.iki.fi/ philantropist] appears. Consumerium.org domain and hosting is donated to the effort.
* [[#2003|2003]] - [[Copyleft]]ing and adopting [[MediaWiki]] to drive development
* [[#2004|2004]] - 
* [[#2005|2005]] - [[Semantic MediaWiki]] extemsion is released
* [[#2006|2006]] - 
* [[#2007|2007]] - 
* [[#2008|2008]] - [[Consumerium:Metrics]] start to take meaningful form
* [[#2009|2009]] - 
* [[#2010|2010]] - 
* [[#2011|2011]] - 
* [[#2012|2012]] - Radical take on [[voting]] w/ extreme consumer protection, perhaps to the detriment of usability. [[Wikidata]] is initiated.
* [[#2013|2013]] - [[Consumium free social]] starts
* [[#2014|2014]] - 
* [[#2015|2015]] - 
* [[#2016|2016]] - [[Priorities selections]] and [[systems selections]] kick in. Secret stuff will be implemented later on and the [[adequate technological secrecy]] will be applied in time.
* [[#2017|2017]]
* [[#2018|2018]]
* [[#2019|2019]]
* [[#2020|2020]]
* [[#2021|2021]]
* '''[[#2022|2022]]'''
* [[#2023|2023]]

== 2000 ==
[[File:Bluetooth-Logo.svg|thumb|right|280px|Information on '''[[w:Bluetooth]]''' and some other factors sparked the idea of Consumerium in the [[Lowest Troll]]'s head.]] 
* Initial idea of [[Consumerium]] forms in the [[Lowest Troll]]’s mind inspired by information on [[w:Bluetooth|Bluetooth]]

== 2001 ==
[[File:Greenpeace.svg|thumb|right|220px|Greenpeace word mark]]

[[Greenpeace]] gets it independently: [[Consumerium buying signal]] idea of [[green light]] for good products appears at act.greenpeace.org - lookup by [[barcode]]s.

== 2002 ==
''' 2002 highlights '''

* Kalle Hallivuori sponsors the domain name Consumerium.org at Gandi.net and hosting at Pingviini.net after meeting Juho and hearing his raves about a future of consumism and browsing the handout the [[Lowest Troll]] had prepared just in case meet nice technically adept people:
* '''[[Consumerium]].org online (!)''' and first plan-of-intent of Consumerium in Finnish and English released.

''' 2002 elsewhere '''

Adbusters begins discussing its [[Greenscan]] service - also based on [[barcode]]s.  Neither Adbusters nor Greenpeace has proposed an architecture for delivery.

== 2003 ==

January. Juho gets an internet connection :)

Finnish version scrapped. Too much hassle.

[[File:MediaWiki logo.png|thumb|right|180px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] logo]]

[[File:Copyleft.svg|thumb|right|120px|'''[[w:Copyleft|Copyleft]]ed''' everything in 2004 as I have no hidden ulterior motive.]]

* 2003-03-10 Consumerium gets Wikified and GFDL'd (see: [[old articles]] for most of the original articles copied from the old site.)

* 2003-03-15 First GPL'd DTDs released

* 2003-03-15 Added [[w:monopoly|monopoly]] to [[features]]

* 2003-03-16 Started [[Research|researching]] in [[Wikipedia]] to benefit all.

* 2003-06-05 The First Ever [[Bluetooth]] [[Barcode]] [[Scanner]] ([[Baracoda Pencil]]) added to [[Hardware Requirements]]

* 2003-06-06 Track record of [[Charitable contribution]]s or [[Social service]]s added to section ''Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility'' of [[Features]]

* 2003-06-06 Added distinction between [[functional packaging]] and [[decorative packaging]] to section  ''Indicators of Environmental Friendliness'' of [[Features]]

* 2003-06-06 Added [[Bluetooth|Bluetooth keyboard]]s to the ''optional requirements'' subsection of the ''Store's hardware requirements'' section of [[Hardware Requirements]]

* 2003-06-08 Preparations for getting registered in [[Sourceforge]] get underway.

* 2003-06-12 Added [[Product substitution]] to ''Other services'' section of [[Features]].

* 2003-06-15 Added Consumerium to the [[w:InterWiki|InterWiki]] map from [[w:MeatballWiki|MeatballWiki]]

* 2003-06-19 Added [[Inter-shop navigation]] to section ''Other services'' of [[Features]]

* 2003-07-03 Added [[SA8000]] certification to ''Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility'' of [[Features]]

* 2003-07-23 Registered [[XML]] development project under [[GPL]] at http://consuml.sourceforge.net

* 2003-08-31 The [[Design paradigm]] revisioned from using [[ConsuML]] ([[XML]]) to store the content to using a [[Wiki]] as the content platform

* 2003-09-22 The principles of [[The Consumerium Exchange]] outlined

* 2003-10-13 Majority of TCE implementation moved to be the responsibility of The [[Opinion Wiki]]

* 2003-11-06 The concept of [[Fairtrade On Demand]] is introduced

* 2003-11-29 [[Workplace Upgrade|Workplace Upgrade Requests]] added to ''Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility'' of [[Features]]

* 2003-11-29 [[Fairtrade On Demand]] is added to new section ''Future features'' of [[features]]

* 2003-12-03 [[wiktionary:Consumerium translation lists|Translation work]] initiated in [[Wiktionary]]

''' 2003 highlights '''

* [[Copyleft]] everything
* [[MediaWiki]] introduced
* http://develop.consumerium.org, the 1st subdomain is created and the development wiki is placed here.
* Active development of knowledge

'''Read more'''
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/December2003|Blog December 2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/November2003|Blog November 2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/October2003|Blog October 2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/September2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/August2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/July2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/June2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/May2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/April2003]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/March2003]]

[[File:Consumerium.org-A6-leaflet-flyer-outside-2003.png|thumb|center|1280px|Outside facing pages of a 2003 printed A6 leaflet, which I made for the November 2003 trip to the European Social Forum in Paris.]]

[[File:Consumerium.org-A6-leaflet-flyer-inside-2003.png|thumb|center|1280px|Inside facing pages of a 2003 printed A6 leaflet,]]

== 2004 ==
[[File:NFC logo.svg|thumb|right|180px|NFC is short for [[w:Near-field communication]]]]

* 2004-03-10 Added [[Checkout Consumerium]] to section ''Other services'' [[Features]]

* 2004-03-10 [[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium]] [[Development Wiki]] has been available for One Year!

* 2004-03-18 [http://www.nokia.com Nokia], [http://www.sony.net Sony] and [http://www.philips.com/ Phillips] form [http://www.nfc-forum.org/ NFC-forum] to advance NFC development, implementation and inter-operability, which is great news for [[Checkout Consumerium]] designated as one of the first '''instore''' [[Consumerium Services]]

''See [[Consumerium anticipated roll-out]] for planned '''future''' events and known scheduled events.  Don't take those as seriously as you take the above!''

* By 2004-09-09 [[Main Page]] reaches 10.000 views and number of articles exceeds 1.000 unfortunately mostly due to some active participants diverging into useless wordplay and other activities which are not part of the main goal of this wiki

* 2004-11-2 Nokia announces [[NFC]] enabled phone covers for Nokia 3220 (available 1st quarter [[2005]] in Europe and 2nd quarter 2005 in Americas and Asia

* 2004-11-27 The international "buy nothing day" or BND for short http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

''' 2004 highlights '''

* [[How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell]] gets written, de-escalates the conflict with Wikimedia.

'''Read more'''
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/October2004|Blog October 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/September2004|Blog September 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/August2004|Blog August 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/July2004|Blog July 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/June2004|Blog June 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/May2004|Blog May 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/April2004|Blog April 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/March2004|Blog March 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/February2004|Blog February 2004]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/January2004|Blog January 2004]]

== 2005 ==

'''2005 highlights'''
[[File:SemanticMediaWiki_Logo.png|thumb|right|220px|The [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki] logo]]


* [[Semantic MediaWiki]] is introduced

* [[Fair Flower and Plants]] [[label]] is expected to be finalized and introduced to [[consumer]]s

* [[Fair trade]] There are plans to introduce [[Fair trade]] [[cotton]] and [[textiles]] to the market

''' 2005 elsewhere '''

* UCC requires that by January 1, 2005 all retail scanning systems in the US must be able to accept [[EAN]]-13 

''' 2005 lowlights '''
* Disarray and vandalism sets in. Hard times are about. Read about the [https://stop-synthetic-filth.org/wiki/User:Juho_Kunsola main lowlight-happenings on my userpage on the Stop-Synthetic-Filth! wiki]

'''Read more:'''

* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/August2005|Blog August 2005]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/July2005|Blog July 2005]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/June2005|Blog June 2005]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/May2005|Blog May 2005]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/January2005|Blog January 2005]]

== 2006 ==
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/September2006|Blog September 2006]]

== 2007 ==
[[File:DBpediaLogo.svg|thumb|right|220px|The [https://wiki.dbpedia.org/ DBpedia.org] logo]]

* Switching from Escapebox.net's nice Semi-Managed [[w:FreeBSD|FreeBSD]] in Germany to a [[w:Fedora Core]] (v5 lol) GNU/Linux at Kotisivut.com to have newer versions of stuff.

''' 2007 highlights'''
* [[DBpedia]], a pioneer in formalizing information from Wikipedia and other wikis comes online

== 2008 ==

''' 2008 highlights '''

* The first '''[[Consumerium:Metrics]]''' are developed. Continues till [[#2010|2010]].
* Outdated Fedora Core 5 server retired in favour of a proper [[w:Debian GNU/Linux]] 6 server at Kotisivut.com.

== 2009 ==

== 2010 ==
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/May2010|Blog May 2010]]

== 2011 ==

== 2012 ==

''' 2012 highlights '''
* '''[[Archive Team]]''' [http://archive.org/details/wiki-develop.consumerium.org archives all the non-deleted full article histories]. [[Lowest Troll]] sighs with relief as it is no longer up-to only him to keep working backups safe.
* [[MediaWiki]] upgraded 8 versions up and [[MediaWiki/extensions]] to combat automized vandalism are installed and the wiki is once again unlocked for editing. 
* [[Consumerium plans as of 2013]] was originally "Consumerium plans as of 2012" and contained an interesting take on [[voting]] systems.
* <font color="green">Plans regarding the</font> '''[[voting]]''' <font color="green"> were (almost) finished in December 2012</font>. Voting results ( obs. plural ), '''[[reviews]], [[feedback]] and [[links|links and linked data]] and other [[information]]''' are the five key components of a view on a business. 

''' 2012 elsewhere '''

* Work is begun on '''[[Wikidata]]''' and the underlying '''[[Wikibase]]''' extension

[[File:Open Food Facts logo.svg|thumb|right|300px|[[Open Food Facts]] is founded by Stéphane Gigandet in France. OFF clearly and conscientiously stays clear of anything political.]]
'''[[Open Food Facts]]''' [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ (.org)], a crowdsourced non-profit open database, web app and mobile apps of food products initiated in 2012 by French programmer Stéphane Gigandet. It is limited to foodstuffs only by the contract, others will be removed and clearly seeks not to be political.

The database is [[copyleft]]ed under [[w:Open Database License]], database entries under [https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/ Database Contents License] and the uploaded photos under [[w:Creative Commons license|CC-BY-3.0 Creative Commons]] so the database and the photos can be reused in other services so it would seem a good place to contribute as [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data open data is available in various formats].

''' 2012 confusion '''
* In 2012 there were 2000+ extensions made for [[MediaWiki]] which must all be analyzed for usefulness which was attempted at [[MediaWiki/extensions]]


more from 

* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/December2012|Blog December 2012]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/October2012|Blog October 2012]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/August2012|Blog August 2012]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/July2012|Blog July 2012]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/April2012|Blog April 2012]]

== 2013 ==

''' 2013 highlights ''' 
* New server with Debian7 at the excellent https://transip.eu hosting guys in Netherlands for the first [[Consumium free social]] medium, [[diaspora]]*.

'''Read more''':
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/2013]] 
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/February 2013|Blog February 2013]]
* [[User:Juboxi/Blog/January 2013|Blog January 2013]]
and other sources.

== 2014 ==
To be constructed from [[User:Juboxi/Blog/2014]] and other sources.

== 2015 ==
To be constructed from [[User:Juboxi/Blog/2015]] and other sources.

== 2016 ==

Consumerium-y going-ons in 2016

* [[Priorities selections]] is an article to get things going by writing them out. 
* [[Systems selections]] is a  bring-together article to collect, screen and select technology etc. etc. Observe correct selection of [[Wikimedia flavor]] when your senses call for it.
** [[Databases]] (models of data and implementations)
** [[Product and service classifications]] provide hierarchical ways of finding a group for a product, similar products etc.

* [[Consumium free social]] grew to a quartet in the spring of 2016 with the addition of Hubzilla, Friendica and GNU social.
* [[Wikimedia Commons]] was activated on Saturday 2016-09-10 as a media source. Dig in.

[[User:Juboxi/Blog/2016|Lowest Troll's blog for year 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2017|Lowest Troll's blog for the year 2017]]

== 2018 ==
* 2018-10-31 [https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/ Finnish language website https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/] launched
* [[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2018|Lowest Troll's blog for the year 2018]]

== 2019 ==
[[File:Open Food Facts logo.svg|thumb|right|200px|[[Open Food Facts]] [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ (.org)] is a strictly non-political effort to chart out our nutrition. Logo from Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC-BY-SA.]]
* 2019-08-20 | [[User:Jukeboksi|Juho]] joins the [[Open Food Facts]] as [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/editor/juho-of-consumerium-org Juho of Consumerium.org at world.openfoodfacts.org] [https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/User:Juho-of-consumerium-org Juho of Consumerium.org at wiki.openfoodfacts.org 
* Consumerium gets a [[w:WhatsApp|WhatsApp]] number.

== 2020 ==
[[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.]]
* 2020-07-23 | the new cards arrived
* 2020-07-23 | New page is created in Consumerium.org Wordpress [https://consumerium.org/marketing-materials/ '''Marketing materials''' - Consumerium.org]
* 2020-07-24 | New page is created in Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org Wordpress [https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/markkinointimateriaalit/ ''''Markkinointimateriaalit'''' - Kuluttajisto - Consumerium Suomessa]

== 2021 ==
* Nothing much happening yet. [[User:Jukeboksi|Juho]] is keeping busy with improvements and promotion of [https://stop-synthetic-filth.org/wiki/Main_Page the Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki] 

== 2022 ==
* Purchased domain Kuluttajisto.fi on Tuesday 2022-11-15 and subsequently setup a Finnish lanaguage wiki there [[kuluttajistow:Etusivu]] is the Main Page. 

The plan is to migrate the wordpress at https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org to a subdirectory /wp/ there

== 2023 ==
[[Consumerium development wiki turns 20|Consumerium development wiki turns 20 on Friday 2023-02-24]]. 

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