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== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">New Members & Articles - Week of April 5 - 11, 2026</div> ==
== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">New Members & Articles - Week of April 19 - 26, 2026</div> ==


<strong>New Member Welcome</strong>
<strong>New Member Welcome</strong>
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Please welcome the following new members:
Please welcome the following new members:


*Shane
*Bjorn Skogquist


<strong>Note the following new articles & pages:</strong>
<strong>Note the following new articles & pages:</strong>


*[[Archive of Activity & Article Additions]] - an archive of this post and weekly activity
*[[Business_Scoring_Rubric]] - the first version of a scoring system for businesses
*[[Community Rules of Conduct]] - a place for basic rules and guidelines for volunteers
*[[Main_page]] - an attempt at a landing page for new users and members
*[[Negative_Screening]] - a description and definition of the concept as used on this wiki
*[[Walmart]] - a new page providing qualitative content on the Walmart and their holdings.
*[[unCapitali.se]] - a new about page covering who we are, our scoring model, and how people can help.


Past activity can be viewed on the [[Archive_of_Activity_&_Article_Additions]] page.
Past activity can be viewed on the [[Archive_of_Activity_&_Article_Additions]] page.
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In this first discussion of developments, the following accomplishments can be summarized:
In this first discussion of developments, the following accomplishments can be summarized:


*Significant progress on the business scoring model and automation of data collection
*A draft business plan was completed
*A draft business plan was completed
*The instance of wikimedia server software was installed
*The instance of wikimedia server software was installed

Latest revision as of 15:10, 20 April 2026

Welcome to unCapitali.se - We are a wiki based on a specific subset of knowledge. Unlike Wikipedia.org, we do not seek to write about all knowledge under the sun. Our goal is specific: to report on the relationships between a company and its' products, shareholders, host community, vendors, workers and the government via lobbyists, politicians, and Political Action Committees (PACs). The idea is to use this information not to create a complete picture of the business or its history and activities, but rather to cut through the advertising mythology and corporate assertions to form objective and qualitative synopses. These synopses will form the basis of a corporate, product, owner, donor and politician scores.

To learn more about our who we are, our business scoring model, or how you can help, please visit our unCapitali.se wiki page.


New Members & Articles - Week of April 19 - 26, 2026

New Member Welcome

Please welcome the following new members:

  • Shane

Note the following new articles & pages:

Past activity can be viewed on the Archive_of_Activity_&_Article_Additions page.

Developments

In this first discussion of developments, the following accomplishments can be summarized:

  • Significant progress on the business scoring model and automation of data collection
  • A draft business plan was completed
  • The instance of wikimedia server software was installed
  • Hosting was initiated & the wiki is live
  • The domain name was purchased
  • Significant progress was made in soliciting:
    • Vendors
    • Volunteers
    • Writers

Initial discussions continue to attract technical people as well as those incensed by recent government activities amounting to unconstitutional overreach in Minnesota.

Internal structure of the wikimedia product has proven to be a steeper curve than anticipated, but the progress on setting up a demonstration of the concept is underway. Further information can be found in the Proposed Projects section on this Main Page.

Proposed Projects

Started Project - Work Needed to Affect Completion

  • Walmart
    • Apply Revised Scoring Rubric to Researched Passages
    • Calculate Score & Generate Code for Summary & Full Scoring Boxes

Proposed Projects

Next Up

unCapitali.se has a 1 and 5 year business plan that aggressively call for the information we collect, and the partnerships we forge, to bring about change. It is not enough to write articles and to score businesses. We intend to use this information to educate our members on the quality of their purchases and effects these purchases have on their communities and the world.

To that end, we have engaged an application developer to assist in creating a mobile application that will:

  • Assist users in scanning product codes to see product level scoring, and to assist in capturing uncatalogued products
  • Assist users in comparing products
  • Recommend product alternatives

As we move from through the growth phase of the wiki into applying summarized data, some of you may be asked to assist in beta testing the application so that we can affect a phased roll out of the application to a wider group of member/users.