[Foundation-l] Proposal:Consumer Wiki?

Thu Mar 30 14:29:25 UTC 2006

To be honest, I don't like google adds. I think the thinking at the
moment is that google ads will only be used as a last resort.

About the consumer idea, have a look at http://consumerpedia.org.

On 30/03/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Guruprasad Baskaran wrote:
> > Hi All!
>
> Hello
>
> >
> > This is my first post on the mailing list  and I am not sure if this is the
> > right mailing for this topic.
> >
> > Actually I had two ideas
> >
> > 1)I have found that people tend to use the internet a lot to research about
> > about various products/services that they wish to buy.And as far as I know
> > most of the sites that offer information on the products or services are
> > commericial sites either hosted by the creator of the product or service or
> > by some other commercial site which would probably also be selling the
> > product, so there is no guarantee how unbiased the information is.So I was
> > wondering if we can create a web site which will have unbiased information
> > about all the products/services in the world, where users will create the
> > pages with product/service information , how good , how bad it is, what are
> > the alternatives, what price the user paid etc etc.Something similar to the
> > wikipedia site for knowledge where users can log in and edit.I have not
> > thought about the design of the web site, its just a rough idea so far, but
> > what do you people think?wouldnt it be great to have just one web site where
> > you can look up all the unbiased information of whatever product/service you
> > want to buy?
>
> There was a site which was meant to do something of the sort
> www.consumerium.org.
> I think it is dead now, but it might give you some ideas.
>
> > 2)I was reading that wikimedia projects need lot of donations to support
> > hardware and software requirements for the staggering growth its
> > having.Iwas wondering if wikimedia could earn this money by itself for
> > example by
> > just showing some small non intrusive adds(like google adds) which are
> > selected in a fair fashion by a search algorithm(again its a rough idea not
> > sure how to do it yet), wouldnt that be good?Obviously all this money can be
> > pushed back into the primary goal of wikimediafoundation 'Imagine a world in
> > which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human
> > knowledge. That's what we're doing." wouldnt that make the
> > wikimediafoundation much more stronger to achieve its goal?Just a thought
> > what do you people think?
>
> Hmmmm; there is a significant proportion of editors who would consider
> googleadds as actually intrusive... Right now, I fear this solution does
> not meet wide support...
>
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Regards
> > GP
>
>
> see you
>
> Ant
>
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