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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:

Archive of Activity & Article Additions - an archive of this post and weekly activity
Community Rules of Conduct - a place for basic rules and guidelines for volunteers

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

Company Synopses
Cummins Inccorporated

Product Synopses

Investor/Owner Synopses

Mechanism Synopses - (Redirect or pull from Wikipedia if well written)

Internal Pages
- Tutorial Pages Detailing:
- Process & Style Pages that Describe:
  - Writing Company Synopses
  - Writing Product Synopses
  - Writing Synopses of People
  - Using the unCapitali.se Business Scoring Rubric
  - Using the unCapitali.se Product Scoring Rubric
  - Using the unCapitali.se Person Scoring Rubric
- Community Rules of Conduct Page Explaining:
  - Businesses Than May Be Scored Versus Which May Only Be Included in Lists (and not Scored)

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.

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 <strong>Welcome to unCapitali.se</strong> - 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.
+== <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>
+Please welcome the following new members:
+*Shane
+<strong>Note the following new articles & pages:</strong>
+*[[Archive of Activity & Article Additions]] - an archive of this post and weekly activity
+*[[Community Rules of Conduct]] - a place for basic rules and guidelines for volunteers
+Past activity can be viewed on the [[Archive_of_Activity_&_Article_Additions]] page.
+== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">Developments</div> ==
-== Business Score ==
+In this first discussion of developments, the following accomplishments can be summarized:
-Scores will be based on the following categories, with some being weighted more than others.  For example, if a product is environmentally friendly, but profits go to politicians an PACs that work to weaken environmental regulation or work to get pardons or favorable judicial rulings, the product will still be rated unfavorably in the environmental category.
+*Significant progress on the business scoring model and automation of data collection
-The categories we seek to score are as follows:
+*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.
-*Labor
-*Environment
-*Social Impact
-**Small & Local Business Friendly
-**Women & Minority Friendly
-**Supportive of Historic Preservation
-**Supportive of Veterans
-**LBGTQAI + Sensitive
-*Competitiveness
-**Pro-Third World (Non- Exploitive)
-**CEO & Officer Pay Not Exploitive
-**Avoids Monopolistic and Oligarchical Business Practices
-**Avoids Using Corporate Power to Advance Unethical or Illegal Contracts
-*Pro-Democracy & Open Government
-**Fair Lobbying Practices
-**Fair Trade Practices
-**Fair Political Donation Practices
-**Fair Taxation (Not-externalizing housing, wage or health care underpayments to taxpayers)
+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.
-These scores will be based on a scale of -100 to +100, with the lowest end of the scale being very unfavorable/harmful and the highest end being favorable/beneficial.  In this way, we hope to create a system that can be objectively applied over time, though in the beginning it may be a bit subjective until a rubric is for qualitative analysis is selected.
+== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">Proposed Projects</div> ==
-A score of zero (0) is reserved for not enough information.  If information is available, a -1 or less, or a +1 or greater are to be used.
+<strong>Started Project - Work Needed to Affect Completion</strong>
-As eluded to earlier, a weighting system is necessary as certain criteria are more influential than others.  Negative Screening is necessary to show that corporations lobbying to buy time with and access to politicians counts for more than any token acts designed to lead consumers and the public to believe a company is virtuous.  For example, paying to plant a tree on Earth Day versus having a large fleet of diesel trucks that send tens-of-thousands of tons of carbon into the atmosphere or lobbying or exemption from environmental regulations.  We wish it were not necessary, but in the struggle sift through available information needed to understand which products and stores are more beneficial or harmful than others, it becomes necessary to enter into the detailed analysis to categorize and re-categorize information as it becomes available.
+*Walmart
-== Who We Are ==
+**Apply Revised Scoring Rubric to Researched Passages
+**Calculate Score & Generate Code for Summary & Full Scoring Boxes
+<strong>Proposed Projects</strong>
-unCapitali.se is a Minnesota based business started by former Mayor Bjorn Skogquist.  His observation is a somber one.  His preference would have been to include this information in Wikipedia.org, and to found a non-profit to take donations to advance this work.  However, the Trump Administration is actively canceling 501(c)(3) non-profit charters for suspicions political reasons, and anything with a .com address is subject to terrorism charges equally as suspect, which allows the government to shut off domain names it deems dangerous to its agenda.
+*Company Synopses
-Mr. Skogquist has therefor set for this project apart from any other existing project.  It has no affiliation with any other U.S. based project.  unCapitali.se has servers in Sweden, which boasts one of the strongest sets of free press laws on earth.
+**[[Coco-Cola]]
+**[[Goya]]
+**[[John Deere]]
+**[[Tesla]]
+**[[Target]]
+**[[Whole Foods]]
+**[[Milliken & Company]]
+**[[Kao Corporation]]
+**[[PepsiCo]]
+**[[Sony Group Corporation]]
+*[[Cummins Inccorporated]]
+*Product Synopses
-Articles are written by volunteers, but staff are involved in management, maintenance, promotion and corporate governance and finance.  It is hoped that a balance between the virtues of a non-profit/NGO and the protections and advantages of a corporation will provide the maximum amount of flexibility and resources necessary.  it is the hope of all involved that  this project quickly move from an information gathering phase to a more active phase involving recommendations and and collective action.
+**[[Dasani]]
+**[[Tesla Model S]]
+**[[Chobani]]
+*Investor/Owner Synopses
-== How You Can Help ==
+**[[Elon Musk]]
+**[[Jim Walton]]
+**[[S. Robson Walton]]
+**[[Alice Walton]]
+**[[Lukas Walton]]
+**[[Christy Walton]]
+**[[Nancy Walton Laurie]]
+**[[Ann Walton Kroenke]]
+*Mechanism Synopses - (Redirect or pull from Wikipedia if well written)
-Though unCapitali.se is a business, it seeks volunteer writers, editors and researchers.  We look for assistance in sharing articles, summary memes, business scores, quotes, etc.  It is our hope to grow from the illegal occupation of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota and other cities across America to a proactive pursuit of avoiding accidental investment in the companies that benefit from anti-democratic, unconstitutional & authoritarian power structures.
+**[[Price Fixing]]
+**[[Right to Repair]]
+**[[Gross Domestic Product (GDP)]]
+**[[Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)]]
+**[[Tax Increment Financing (TIF)]]
+**[[Job Opportunity Building Zones (JOBZ)]]
+**[[Qualified Census Tract (QCT)]]
+**[[Community Development Block Grant - CDBG]]
+*Internal Pages
-Mr. Skogquist, seeking a way to assist in the fight against the murders of Alex Pretti, Renee Good and at least 6 others nation wide at the hands of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, vowed to stop funding any company or politician who has supported any action that makes this world less stable, whether in the United States or abroad. His motto in this regard is, "Not one cent."
+**Tutorial Pages Detailing:
+***[[Wikimedia In Line Editor Commands for Formatting Text]]
+***[[Page Creation]]
+***[[File Upload Process & Protocol]]
+***[[Links: Pages, Objects, Citations & More]]
+**Process & Style Pages that Describe:
+***[[Writing Company Synopses]]
+***[[Writing Product Synopses]]
+***[[Writing Synopses of People]]
+***Using the unCapitali.se [[Business Scoring Rubric]]
+***Using the unCapitali.se [[Product Scoring Rubric]]
+***Using the unCapitali.se [[Person Scoring Rubric]]
+**[[Community Rules of Conduct]] Page Explaining:
+***Businesses Than May Be Scored Versus Which May Only Be Included in Lists (and not Scored)
+== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">Next Up</div> ==
-To this end, he is actively working to examine his personal investments and expenditures.  He has further committed to cataloguing what he calls toxic money at the source via this wiki, and in so doing, create templates, procedures and to work with others to make this project as broad and comprehensive as possible.
+<strong>unCapitali.se</strong> 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.
-He, and the others currently volunteering towards this effort, seek your honest feedback, advice, and most importantly, your mutual aid in assisting us build this project into something that companies and politicians can no longer ignore.
+To that end, we have engaged an application developer to assist in creating a mobile application that will:
-== Getting started ==
+*Assist users in scanning product codes to see product level scoring, and to assist in capturing uncatalogued products
-<strong>MediaWiki has been installed.</strong>
+*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.
-Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
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