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31.05.2005 | |||
[[MediaWiki]] has yet another feature to customise the software for all mediawiki users.[[m:Writing a new special page]] | |||
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29.05.2005 | |||
===Grouping services geographically=== | |||
I've been thinking about the [[Language vs. Area]] problemacy. I've been plotting a plan in my head that certain [[companies]] and [[product]]s they offer should be arranged by location ie. | |||
<pre> | |||
[[FI/Tampere/SomeTex-MexRestaurant]] | |||
[[US/California/Santa Cruz/SomeBikeRepairShop]] | |||
[[CA/Ontario/Toronto/China Town/SpicccyChineseRestaurant]] | |||
</pre> | |||
Thinking how this is not a workable arrangement for transnational [[corporation]]s to pinpoint them to their HQ... | |||
...but then something almost magical happened... I remembered something that I've been taught in school: '''There are [[Good]]s (tanglible) and [[Service]]s (intanglible)''', both of these are [[product]]s (This is how it is in the course books). The distinction between a service and a good is sometimes difficult to make. This is covered well in the [[w:Service]] article. | |||
An example (far fetched): | |||
:-[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] goes to the [[store]] to buy bread. Is the store selling me a bread or is it selling me a services (sourcing, logistics, storage and other activities that enable me to consume the service leaving the store knowoing that I won't go hungry for a while now)? | |||
Some people argue strongly that all transactions should be viewed as services. See [[w:Service economy]] and/or [[Service economy]] on this view point. | |||
I'm currently thinking that companies selling services should be arranged into a tree-like structure so that the [[companies]] provoding [[service]]s would be close to each other in the article hierarchy. And, yes, I know how bad this solution is for performance (I can actually read and write [[w:SQL|SQL]] (!)... after all [[MediaWiki]] is developed for [[Wikipedia]] where the common wiki-way is to avoid sub-articles so it's not at all optimised to traverse up and down subarticle-trees. | |||
===Article validation coming to 1.5=== | |||
[[m:Article validation|Article validation is a hot topic on meta today]] as [[m:User:Magnus Manske]] has once again implemented this feature as described in [[m:Article validation feature]] this time it seems to be integrated into [[MediaWiki]] in 1.5 tree and '''you can try it out [http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Main_Page here].''' | |||
This new feature is likely the tool we are going to use to decide what gets published as facts and what doesn't. | |||
Those of you who have been with us for a while may remember when we decided that [[Simple model for expressing opinions|articles about the real world get published when the "default signer" signs a version]] of an article thus the dreaded [[sysop]] doesn't get to make (or have the misery of having to decide) the decision of what goes and what doesn't. | |||
The problem of whose responsibility it is to make these kinds of decisions doesn't evaporate away because someone has to '''decide''' who are the '''decision makers''' in each case. | |||
===Past, Present and a little Future=== | |||
This wiki has been online for [[Timeline of Consumerium|over 2 years]] and a lot of new [[MediaWiki modifications|new features]] have since been added to [[MediaWiki]].. heck it used to be called "Wikipedia phase III" when I first installed this versatile and user-friendly wiki. Categorizing many pages here like [[Links]] and [[ISMs]] for example doesn't seem to be of much use since these have already been collected into article-lists. On the other hand we have over 1000 articles and we are in need of unification ie. '''nail down what do we want [[consumerium]] to do and focus on how to get it done in real life.''' | |||
We have to decide what do we want consumerium to do and how to get there without stalling at the starting gates due to lack of coverage/information or misguided by [[misinformation]] and [[w:disinformation]], lead astray by [[sock puppet]]s, [[paid troll]]s and the [[creatures of the deep]]. | |||
Soon I will define and publish the minimum feature set (of the often far flung [[features]]) which | |||
#Catch the ethos of consumerium | |||
#Allow editing work done locally and globally | |||
#Involve and internetwork [[Consumer]]s, [[w:List of professions|Worker]]s and [[Capitalist]]s in all 3*2*1 = 6 ways (or as close as one can get to that) | |||
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26.05.2005 | |||
I've got my thinking cap on and I think I'll get a plan for moving to implementation phase soon. Please be patient. I remember when I started this project I was thinking of 10-15 years to implementation... of this only little over 3 years have lapsed. Also emergence of interesting technologies such as [[NFC]] and cell phone manufacturers coming out with phones with [[w:WLAN|WLAN]] and [[Bluetooth]] has leaped forward. | |||
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