My flash on this is that it would make a great commercial project with
bigtime advertising potential. If we do this (before someone else snatches
it up we might use it to fund Wikipedia.
Fred
From: "Erik Koopman"
<mail(a)erikkoopman.nl>
Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:45:30 +0100
To: <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Trade Standard
Trade Standard is a project proposal for:
(a) a public knowledge base for all information about goods, technology and
(way of) trade to stimulate international development,
(b) a public ethic standard and indicator to evaluate international trade
and industry and
(c) a public register to verify the ethic classification of goods,
technology and trade.
Although its high aim is Trade Standard an internet platform very equal to
Wikipedia. The only differences are: (1) focus on technical and ethical
subjects, (2) equal layouts for all articles, including a chapter for
"ethical, social and sustainable characteristics". And (3) the addition of
registers to list the ethical characteristics of chemicals, products etc.
Trade Standard is a project with high potential that (a) stimulates
international spread of free (technical) information, (b) connects
technology with ethics and (c) offers a solution to upgrade today's very
conservative, 'lowest standards'-oriented culture of international trade and
industry.
Please help me with this project, I am a designer of post-modern concepts
not an software specialist or insider in wiki procedures.
Read the whole project proposal at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trade_Standard
Best regards,
Erik Koopman
NL
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