Timeline of Consumerium

This is one and incomplete timeline of the Consumerium effort.

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

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2000 - Idea of Consumerium appears to the Lowest Troll
2001 - Nothing much happens
2002 - Our first philantropist appears. Consumerium.org domain and hosting is donated to the effort.
2003 - Copylefting and adopting MediaWiki to drive development
2004 -
2005 - Semantic MediaWiki extemsion is released
2006 -
2007 -
2008 - Consumerium:Metrics start to take meaningful form
2009 -
2010 -
2011 -
2012 - Radical take on voting w/ extreme consumer protection, perhaps to the detriment of usability. Wikidata is initiated.
2013 - Consumium free social starts
2014 -
2015 -
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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

2000[edit | edit source]

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 Bluetooth

2001[edit | edit source]

Greenpeace word mark

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

2002[edit | edit source]

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 barcodes. Neither Adbusters nor Greenpeace has proposed an architecture for delivery.

2003[edit | edit source]

January. Juho gets an internet connection :)

Finnish version scrapped. Too much hassle.

mw:MediaWiki logo

Copylefted 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 monopoly to features

2003-03-16 Started 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 contributions or Social services 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 keyboards 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 InterWiki map from 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 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 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

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Outside facing pages of a 2003 printed A6 leaflet, which I made for the November 2003 trip to the European Social Forum in Paris.

Inside facing pages of a 2003 printed A6 leaflet,

2004[edit | edit source]

NFC is short for w:Near-field communication

2004-03-10 Added Checkout Consumerium to section Other services Features

2004-03-10 Consumerium Development Wiki has been available for One Year!

2004-03-18 Nokia, Sony and Phillips form 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.

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2005[edit | edit source]

2005 highlights

The Semantic MediaWiki logo

Semantic MediaWiki is introduced

Fair Flower and Plants label is expected to be finalized and introduced to consumers

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 main lowlight-happenings on my userpage on the Stop-Synthetic-Filth! wiki

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2007[edit | edit source]

The DBpedia.org logo

Switching from Escapebox.net's nice Semi-Managed 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[edit | edit source]

2008 highlights

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

2012[edit | edit source]

2012 highlights

Archive Team 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.
Plans regarding the voting were (almost) finished in December 2012. Voting results ( obs. plural ), reviews, feedback and 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

Open Food Facts is founded by Stéphane Gigandet in France. OFF clearly and conscientiously stays clear of anything political.

Open Food Facts (.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 copylefted under w:Open Database License, database entries under Database Contents License and the uploaded photos under 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 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

2013[edit | edit source]

2013 highlights

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

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and other sources.

2014[edit | edit source]

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

2015[edit | edit source]

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

2016[edit | edit source]

A hybrid bilingual (English & Finnish) card from 2016 marketing both Consumerium.org and d.consumium.org (the free social media spin-off diaspora* pod). The w:QR code contains a link to a valid URL kuluttajien.yhteinen.asia which currently redirects to kuluttajisto.consumerium.org. This marketing domain kuluttajien.yhteinen asia is a wordplay in Finnish fi."kuluttajien" == en."of consumers" fi."yhteinen" == en."joint, common" fi."asia" == en."cause, matter, thing" You can find the other .yhteinen.asia Consumerium.org marketing redirecting subdomains at start of the Consumerium:Executive summary.

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.

Lowest Troll's blog for year 2016

2017[edit | edit source]

Lowest Troll's blog for the year 2017

2018[edit | edit source]

2018-10-31 Finnish language website https://kuluttajisto.consumerium.org/ launched
Lowest Troll's blog for the year 2018

2019[edit | edit source]

Open Food Facts (.org) is a strictly non-political effort to chart out our nutrition. Logo from Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC-BY-SA.

2019-08-20 | Juho joins the Open Food Facts as 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 WhatsApp number.

2020[edit | edit source]

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 Marketing materials - Consumerium.org
2020-07-24 | New page is created in Kuluttajisto.consumerium.org Wordpress 'Markkinointimateriaalit' - Kuluttajisto - Consumerium Suomessa

2021[edit | edit source]

Nothing much happening yet. Juho is keeping busy with improvements and promotion of the Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki

2022[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Consumerium development wiki turns 20 on Friday 2023-02-24.