https://consumerrights.wiki ◉───╡ The Consumer Rights Wiki. https://fulu.org ◉───╡ The FULU Foundation. https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/change-your-profile-picture-to-clippy.:e ◉───╡ The Video that got Mass Attention. https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page ◉───╡ Wiki Sign-up Page! https://consumerrights.wiki/Category:Articles_in_need_of_additional_work ◉───╡ Articles in need of additional work. https://consumerrights.wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&limit=50&days=7&enhanced=1&urlversion=2 ◉───╡ Recent Changes section https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/how-to-write-an-article-for:7 ◉───╡ Louis Rossmann's Video Guide for making an article on the wiki. https://consumerrights.wiki/Consumer_Rights_Wiki:Write_your_first_article! ◉───╡ Text version of Wiki article guide.
Small disclaimer, this post will not contain much if any technical information, it will merely document a small portion of my experience working on the consumer rights wiki and provide links and information to potentially help new users out if they want to contribute.
For some time now, I have been writing for the Consumer Rights Wiki. This wiki is a database that attempts to document the overlooked exploitation of consumers in the modern day, log it, and help to inform others about the acts of consumer exploitation that many companies practice and inform other people about these actions.
This wiki's purpose is to make it much easier for potential customers, news outlets, journalists, and government regulators to gain easy access to factual cited information for the purposes of purchasing decisions, news coverage, and the legal decision-making process.
The consumerrights wiki is maintained by the FULU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Everyone has their own reasons to start writing for something like this. Perhaps you don't like the way modern consumer rights have diminished over the years. Perhaps you have had a first-hand experience with bad practices regarding consumer protection and don't want others to deal with the same thing. Personally, it was because I seen the Louis Rossmann video about it, liked what he had to say, and wanted to do something about this for myself, so a combination of all three.
I believe that this wiki may be the start of a larger push for many other issues that people have to face. If people band together for the purpose of consumer rights, they band together for other things close to it.
A database containing a vast amount of information regarding this specific topic has never been done before and I think it could really help out myself and others when it comes to purchasing things in the future.
According to Louis, during his time fighting for Right to Repair Legislation, many of the opposition would claim this is a solution in search of a problem (the topic of Right to Repair mixed with Consumer rights a lot). This wiki is an attempt to make that oppositional argument invalid, as documented evidence which did not exist before of these major broad implications when it came to consumer freedom and rights now exists in proper format for a Judge or other legal lawmaker to read through and assess for themselves without having to turn through 10-20 pages of physical evidence.
First and foremost, contribute to the wiki in any way possible which pushes the goal forward of documenting consumer exploitation. If you have solutions to problems listed on the wiki such as user-submitted guides like the Ink Cartridge ID Chip swapping guide, it is also welcome on the wiki.
The Consumer Rights Wiki does not require the creation of an account, however changes made without an account will show your IP address to everyone as an identifier. If you don't want this, signing up is just as easy! Signing up for the wiki is as easy as signing up for something on the good ol' days of the internet, a Username and Password is all that's required. No email, no phone number, no other ID. Simple.
If you would like a more direct way to contribute, the "Articles in need of work" section is a great place to look for articles that need fixing or additional content. If you're overwhelmed with the amount of articles and don't know what to pick, a better approach could be looking in the recent changes section, finding an article that is incomplete, and helping out there by either working on that article directly, or making a main page for the company that article is targeting if it's not already created.
This wiki isn't private! Another great way to help out in addition to contributing directly is to let others know of it's existence! Share the word through fliers, word of mouth, personal posts referencing it, or adding it to a social media bio. Increasing the amount of contributors on the platform is a high priority for the wiki in addition to creating high-quality articles for it.
If you don't know how the Wiki editing tools work, you can start out by watching Louis Rossmann's guide video showing the basic editing tools and process for editing an article on the wiki.
If you would like a text-version, The wiki has a guide demonstrating its features.
Personally, I still use the normal editing tools and stay away from source editing for the most part. If you're to spend a day with the editing tools, you'll have the hang of it after around 15 minutes completely.
To avoid burning myself out completely, I make many edits over the time I work with an article, some are larger but many of them are smaller edits. I do this to not lose progress in the event I lose internet or power, but also to keep myself feeling like I'm making progress.
For general progression, I will also run a stopwatch that counts the time I've spent on the wiki within a bashrc function and log my total time on the wiki within a text file. I encourage you to find your own methods or use mine to help with avoiding burnout and turning this work into more of a fun game rather than an annoying experience.
If you want the bashrc function, it's pretty simple:
stopwatch() {
start=$(date +%s)
while true; do
time="$(( $(date +%s) - $start))"
printf '%s\r' "$(date -u -d "@$time" +%H:%M:%S)"
sleep 0.1
done
}
Regardless of what you do, try to avoid making edits which don't contribute to the overall goal of Consumer Rights, the wiki isn't meant to be a numbers contest for who can make the biggest number. In the long run, it's about how you can help yourself and everyone else right now and in the future.
I have hope that people will help contribute to this wiki and eventually it will gain enough of a reputation to start being used as evidence when passing laws which support the consumer.
I truly believe that if enough people band together, many issues directly affecting and related to consumer rights will stop happening in the future, that starts with me, but most importantly, that starts with you.