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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.
<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
== Business Score ==
*[[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.
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 and 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.


== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">Developments</div> ==
The initial categories we seek to score are as follows (but are subject to change):


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


*Significant progress on the business scoring model and automation of data collection
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 for qualitative analysis is selected.
*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.
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.


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.
As eluded to earlier, a weighting system is necessary as certain criteria are more influential than others. <strong>Negative Screening</strong> 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, lobbying for exemption from environmental regulations, or funneling money into PACs that advertise for anti-environment politicians or legislation. We wish it were not necessary, but in the struggle sift through available information to understand which products and stores are more beneficial or harmful than others, it becomes necessary to enter into detailed analyses to categorize and re-categorize information as it becomes available.


== <div style="background: #3366cc; color: white; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;">Proposed Projects</div> ==
== Who We Are ==


<strong>Started Project - Work Needed to Affect Completion</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 revoking 501(c)(3) non-profit charters for suspicions political reasons. Further, anything with a .com address is subject to terrorism charges for the least offenses which can be equally as suspect. This strengthens corporation positioning and allows the government to censor and silence websites and organizations it considers dangerous to its agenda.


*Walmart
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 located in Sweden, which boasts one of the strongest sets of free press laws on earth.
**Apply Revised Scoring Rubric to Researched Passages
**Calculate Score & Generate Code for Summary & Full Scoring Boxes


<strong>Proposed Projects</strong>
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 to builda set of data valuable to members. 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.


*Company Synopses
== How You Can Help ==
**[[Coco-Cola]]
**[[Goya]]
**[[John Deere]]
**[[Tesla]]
**[[Target]]
**[[Whole Foods]]
**[[Milliken & Company]]
**[[Kao Corporation]]
**[[PepsiCo]]
**[[Sony Group Corporation]]
*[[Cummins Inccorporated]]


*Product Synopses
Though unCapitali.se is a business, it seeks paying members, volunteer writers, editors, researchers and technically trained people who understand servers, databases, communications, website mechanics, SEO, and any other skills relevant to wikis, applications, data and public reporting. We are looking for assistance in sharing articles, summary memes, business scores, drafting summary quotes about positions worth sharing, etc. It is our hope that from the governments illegal occupation of Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and other cities across America, we grow into a proactive member-benefit organization willing to do the work it will take to intentionally avoid investment in the companies that contribute to anti-democratic, unconstitutional & authoritarian power structures.
**[[Dasani]]
**[[Tesla Model S]]
**[[Chobani]]


*Investor/Owner Synopses
Mr. Skogquist's answer to the murders of Alex Pretti, Renee Good and at least 6 others who were killed at the hands of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers is, "Not one cent."
**[[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)
To this end, unCapitali.se welcomes you, wherever you are, to not only examine your purchases to determine where your money goes, but to log that information here. In that way, it will not be lost on a blog or social media post. It will not be hidden in a Signal chat or lost when a phone is traded. The information will live here, and grow, and become valuable to us all in the fight to keep our most important freedom, the freedom to withhold our money from tyrants, alive and well.
**[[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
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, is humbly requested.
**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> ==
== Getting started ==


<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.
<strong>MediaWiki has been installed.</strong>


To that end, we have engaged an application developer to assist in creating a mobile application that will:
Interested in writing or researching? Start here.
Interested in sharing posts? Read more here.
Interested in inviting people or organizations? Click this link.


*Assist users in scanning product codes to see product level scoring, and to assist in capturing uncatalogued products
<strong>Technical links</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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* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki]

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.

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