Consumerpedia
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The Consumerpedia is a collaborative project to create a free GFDL resource to enable moral purchasing using a MediaWiki installation. It will provide information that consumers need to develop strategies for engaging in moral purchasing and moral living, to evaluate the morality behind their purchases, and to locate enterprises or products they need.
It is inspired by Wikipedia and was initiated by Dan Keshet, a Wikipedia and a Consumerium user, on March 21, 2004.
Consumerpedia relation to Consumerium
It bears much similarity to Consumerium project in its goals though the relation of these two is a problematic one since the trolls in Consumerium protest against the GodKing actions of banning the group of users known as 142 or 142.177 a priori. That is to say, before that group had caused any reason on Consumerpedia for their banning.
This has caused a slow down in what was expected to be a fruitful co-existence between the two projects where Consumerium aims to provide future services and Consumerpedia could be used here and now to record and dispense information regarding moral purchasing and both could converge under GFDL in the future. Juxho is trying to mediate this situation.
See also: CorpKnowPedia
External link
- The Consumerpedia Wiki (http://www.channel1.com/users/dkesh/consumerpedia/index.php/Main_Page)