Consumerium

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Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL licence, using Wiki-software, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.

Website: http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/

CorpKnowPedia, Consumerpedia, Disinfopedia are related projects running a Mediawiki and Recyclopedia is running a GetWiki, a fork of MediaWiki.

Consumerium is proud to do most of its research work in Wikipedia to avoid redundancy and boost synergy.

Table of contents

1 Short timeline of Consumerium
2 List of Wikipedia articles listed as research work in Consumerium
3 Research in Wikipedia

3.1 Editors needed:
3.2 Yet to be started:
3.3 Fairly complete:
3.4 :
3.5 Other articles:

4 List of fairly complete wikipedia articles related to Consumerium
5 External links

Short timeline of Consumerium

April 26 2002 Initial website describing the concept was published
March 10 2003 Consumerium gets wikified and GFDL'd
March 15 2003 First GPL'd code snipplets are released
June 8 2003 Preparations for getting registered in Sourceforge get underway.
July 23 2003 ConsuML gets registered in Sourceforge under GNU GPL

List of Wikipedia articles listed as research work in Consumerium

Research in Wikipedia

Editors needed:

List of company registers (Currently listing FI,IE,NL,PK,SE)
List of trade unions (Currently listing only UK, AU, FI, some of FR, NL)
List of employer associations (Currently a stub with some info on AU, FI, FR, ME, NL, UK)
List of tariffs
Lists of companies
List of who owns what (growing)
Economy of Earth (contains some interesting stuff, but it's not organised)
Mandatory labelling
SA8000
Material input per unit of service
List of packaging companies
List of traded commodities (NEW)

Yet to be started:

List of advertisement agencies (by country) (doesn't exist now)
List of association registers (doesn't exist now)
List of ethical funds (doesn't exist now)
List of non-governmental organisations (doesn't exist now)

Fairly complete:

List of professions (very complete)
List of stock exchanges (very complete)
List of supermarkets
List of reference tables Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here

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Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions

List of fairly complete wikipedia articles related to Consumerium

(From http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/Wikipedia. If these interest you, you might want to check Consumerium out.)

Understanding buying choices and their effects:

Conversion of units
GTIN
EAN (European Article Numbering)
Universal Product Code (UPC)
List of countries
List of timelines
List of reference tables
List of stock exchanges
List of supermarkets
Commodity markets - buying on the largest scale
Money - what it is and how it works, commodifying everything even you
Arms trade (needs a lot of work!)

Understanding moral choices as expressed in the marketplace:

list of ethics articles - why would you care what you buy?
Globalization makes it harder to know what your money does
Transparency International tries to make it easier to find out
Greenpeace has six campaigns to affect buying choices, and advocates
Accounting reform which would make more liabilities visible to you
Full cost accounting in particular would make waste visible
Productivism assumes that everything humans make is good
Consumerism assumes that everything humans want is good

Directly relevant to consumerium mission, making actual moral buying choices:

Slow Food - tied for third most relevant? buy local, organic, etc.
Sweatshop - tied for third most relevant? often the target of
Boycott - second most relevant? usually shorter term than
Moral purchasing describes most exactly the consumerium.org mission
local food

External links

http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/ is the R&D wiki for the project and it's running Wikipedia Phase III software