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[[Technology]] especially FOSS ( Free and Open Source Software ) has a key role in making the Consumium [[goals]] possible. A lot has changed since 2002/2003, the [[means]] are here at reach to make Consumium work in the real world. [[#What kind of information Consumerium / Consumium plans to offer consumers on businesses?|lot of the information]] described in the [[Goals and means of the Consumerium project]] is available from [[DBpedia]] [[ | [[Technology]] especially FOSS ( Free and Open Source Software ) has a key role in making the Consumium [[goals]] possible. A lot has changed since 2002/2003, the [[means]] are here at reach to make Consumium work in the real world. [[#What kind of information Consumerium / Consumium plans to offer consumers on businesses?|lot of the information]] described in the [[Goals and means of the Consumerium project]] is available from [[DBpedia]] [[w:ontology]] and [[w:dataset]]s ( from [[categories]] and from [[infoboxen]] ). | ||
The most computer resources in the original plans were the means to serve the [[Advertisement Videos]] but today those can be embedded into wiki from youtube.com so that's taken care of and we require zero investent to enable serving videos. | |||
The most human resources demanding was the entering of the [[Business]] and [[Product]] data but with the emergence of [[DBpedia]] we can have extensive datas on 40,000+ businesses fully automatically and many many other entities/articles. | |||
The [[#licensing|licensing]] issue of whether to go with [[GFDL]] + CC-A-SA double licensing or just one of them needs to be well thought out and solved. | The [[#licensing|licensing]] issue of whether to go with [[GFDL]] + CC-A-SA double licensing or just one of them needs to be well thought out and solved. | ||
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In Spring 2012 the decision was made to [[#Changing the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium|change the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium]] | In Spring 2012 the decision was made to [[#Changing the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium|change the name of the effort from Consumerium to Consumium]] | ||
[[#Consumium wiki structure]] is much in a state of change at the moment.. With the coming of the [[Universal Language Selector]] we will likely adopt the form of <tt>/wiki/Article_name_in_English/fi</tt> instead of <tt>/wiki/fi/Artikkelin_nimi_suomeksi</tt>. | [[#Consumium wiki structure|Consumium wiki structure]] is much in a state of change at the moment, but the current design plan is to '''serve all languages from a single''' wiki much like [[Translatewiki]] is doing and to have a second wiki for file uploads ( like the commons ) and to use [[Single-signon]] with the two wikis, so that the user accounts are global.. With the coming of the [[Universal Language Selector]] we will likely adopt the form of <tt>/wiki/Article_name_in_English/fi</tt> instead of <tt>/wiki/fi/Artikkelin_nimi_suomeksi</tt>. | ||
== Developers needed == | == Developers needed == | ||
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== Using Youtube to serve videos == | == Using Youtube to serve videos == | ||
[[Ads]] and [[Anti-ad]]s can be served from Youtube to [[mobile device|mobile]] or desktop devices. | [[Ads]] and [[Anti-ad]]s can be served from Youtube to [[mobile device|mobile]] or desktop devices using the [[MediaWiki/Widgets#Youtube|Youtube-widget]]. | ||