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    '''Wikipedia is the Worlds biggest GFDL encyclopedia project.'''
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    Please go see http://www.wikipedia.org. Be patient, it's often experiencing a heavy load.
     
    Wikipedia's Phase III is what is running here and we are grateful for their nice wiki implementation. We are of course planning to fork their entire database and make a billion dollars off it and if they don't allow us (to do that) they are '''so pirate''' ;)
     
    See also Wikipedia's article on itself: [[w:Wikipedia]].
     
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    ===List of related wikipedia articles===
     
    If you see something in wikipedia that could be useful, please put it here, if the Wikipedia article '''is not complete''' you should put it in the [[Research]] page<br>
    '''Lists and timelines are very welcome.'''
     
    Understanding buying choices and their effects:
    * [[w:Conversion of units]]
    *�[[w:GTIN]]
    * [[w:EAN]]
    * [[w:UPC]]
    * [[w:List of countries]]
    * [[w:List of timelines]]
    * [[w:List of reference tables]]
    * [[w:List of stock exchanges]]
    * [[w:List of supermarkets]]
    * [[w:Commodity markets]] - buying on the largest scale
     
    Understanding moral choices in the marketplace:
    * [[w:list of ethics articles]] - why would you care what you buy?
    * [[w:Globalization]] makes it harder to know what your money does
    * [[w:Transparency]] makes it easier to know what your money does
    * [[w:Productivism]] assumes that everything humans make is good
    * [[w:Consumerism]] assumes that everything humans want is good
     
    Directly relevant to consumerium mission, making actual moral buying choices:
    * [[w:Slow Food]] - tied for third most relevant?  buy local, organic, etc.
    * [[w: Sweatshop]] - tied for third most relevant?  often the target of
    * [[w: Boycott]] - second most relevant?  usually shorter term than
    * [[w:Moral purchasing]] seems most relevant to consumerium.org mission

    Latest revision as of 21:35, 9 September 2004