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Your #1 mission: Help build this wiki. We’re looking for contributors who care about protecting consumer rights. Here’s how you can get started:

• Visit the article suggestions page.
• Pick a topic that interests you.
• Create an article using our content guidelines.
• Once you’re done, remove the topic from the list to avoid duplication.

Check out our guide on creating your first article for some tips!

Don’t want to write a full article? No problem, here are other ways to contribute:

• Check out How to help for a guide.
• Improve and expand existing articles.
• Remove suggestions that are already covered or don’t fit the wiki’s scope.
• Add missing but relevant topics to the suggestions list.

Want to understand the bigger picture? Read our Mission Statement to learn what we’re about.

As hard as it is to believe, it's already been a year since the Consumer Rights Wiki was first launched (albeit under a different name - real OGs remember the Consumer Action Taskforce Wiki!).

One year on, we've got almost 1000 content articles, and the Wiki continues to grow in both quantity and quality with every passing day.

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to the Consumer Rights Wiki team - both those here on the Wiki and everyone who works to keep the Discord running. Everyone's been fantastic, and the Wiki would not be even close to where it is now without everyone's hard work. Louis remarked the other day when he found that the article had already been updated even before he covered Bose open-sourcing their SoundTouch API that he was happy 'this website will be living on... ...even if I'm not a part of it'. Fortunately he is very much still a part of the project, but it's you guys, and everyone who edits, contributes to, or uses the Wiki that make this kind of self-sustaining progress possible.

A special shoutout as well to our top contributors of the year. Despite Bythmusters' remarkable assault on the top contributors leaderboard page over the last month (Louis was disqualified due to a lot of his edits coming from bulk image imports that padded his stats - although he's done plenty of real editing too!), **AnotherConsumerRightsPerson** has come out on top of this year's leaderboard as our top contributor! Mr Pollo is comfortably in the #2 spot, and is a fantastic mod who's been with us from the very start.

There's still a lot of work to be done, both on the website and its content. To help with the website side of things, **we have created a survey:** here. We'll release the results in a few weeks along with a longer and more complete 'blog post' style post about the state of the Consumer Rights Wiki, and future plans. Please take the time to fill it out regardless of how much you use the Wiki, as we want to hear from everyone's experiences of the Wiki!

I'll wrap this up for now - here's to many more years of building up our information base, and using it to hold companies to account!

Thank you everyone,

- Keith

• Wiki manager*

We are happy to announce that we're launching the first couple of our project pages on the Wiki - These are going to be a collection of pages where we organise specific tasks that need completing and in a way that should make it easy for you guys to find edits you'd like to make. If you've avoided editing in the past due to being a bit intimidated about making big edits, you just weren't sure where your effort would be needed, or are new to editing, then these project pages might be a good place to look!

The first two are we have released are: Archive everything - where we make the Wiki more resistant to link rot by archiving important links our articles use as references, and, Cargo-complete - where we make sure that every article has its full set of metadata.

The hub for project pages, where any future project pages will be listed, can be found here: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Projects:Hub. We're also happy for people to suggest or propose ideas for future projects on the discussion page of the project hub!

The Consumer Rights Wiki is now open-source!

Head over to our GitHub at https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/crw if you're interested in helping out with the codebase.

We've just launched an update to the create-a-page flow for most pages, which now includes a form! This new form will collect a few basic details about the specific article you're creating, and will use your answers to auto-populate a table which will provide machine-readable information for third party projects (for company and product articles, it will also populate the infobox in the template!). This information will be used by projects like the in-development browser extension, as well as anyone who wants to access some hard data on the Wiki's pages.

Check it out by hitting the create a page button in the sidebar!

We're phasing out the Louis Rossmann video directory in favour of a more general Article suggestions page, created by the eminent JamesTDG!

This will allow anyone to contribute their (hopefully sourced!) ideas to the Wiki without needing to create a full article, and will provide an excellent repository of ideas for editors in need of inspiration.

We're opening up applications for moderators! Please see here for full instructions on how to apply.

In short, we're looking for motivated individuals who are willing to patrol the Wiki, make sure that articles are up to scratch, and take actions to protect the wiki from spam or malicious content whenever appropriate.

We made it easier for you to create a new article! Simply click on Create a page in the sidebar on the left, fill in the title for your page and click on "Create page".

This week we are featuring the list of companies that partake in forced arbitration. You can find more information about forced arbitration here.

Want to suggest a featured article? Add it to the discussion page.

• Clippy the paperclip is taking over profile pics across the internet in protest of big tech – Coverage of the Clippy Campaign

• Buy now, pay later loans will now hit credit scores — and experts think Gen Z could be at risk – FICO plans to include BNPL loans in credit scores this fall, raising flags for young and vulnerable borrowers

Want to suggest a story? Add it to the discussion page.

Also see: In the news for coverage about this project.

• Pi-hole – Self-hosted network-based ad blocker.
• uBlock Origin – Efficient browser-based ad and tracker blocker.

• Have I Been Pwned – Check if your email/password was exposed in a breach.
• CFPB – File complaints and view alerts about financial services.
• VirusTotal / Hybrid Analysis – Scan files for potential malware.
• Triage – Online sandbox for analyzing executables.

• Wayback Machine – World’s largest internet archival service
• archive.today – Smaller internet archival service for unsupported IA websites (e.g: Twitter/X (frontends only), Facebook, Reddit, Paywalled Articles)
• SingleFile – Browser extension to save website EULA/privacy policy as html locally
• ArchiveBox – Self-hosted website archival tool

• Better Business Bureau (BBB) – Lookup business complaints and file your own.
• SaferProducts.gov – U.S. product recall and complaint site.
• FDA Recalls – Drug and food recall database.

• Consumer Reports – Independent product reviews and ratings.
• Ripoff Report – Public consumer complaint database.
• ClassAction.org – View or join consumer class-action lawsuits.

• iFixit – Open repository of device repair instructions.
• Open Source Ecology – Open source machinery designs.

• CamelCamelCamel – Amazon price tracker to detect deceptive price drops.
• Keepa – Detailed price history and deals on Amazon products.
• TrueStar – Analyzes Amazon reviews for manipulation. [Subscription needed]

• SimpleOptOut – Direct links to opt out of data brokers.
  • EasyOptOuts – Automated data broker opt-out service. [Subscription needed]

• Trim – Finds and cancels unwanted subscriptions.
• Goodbudget – Budgeting app with debt tracker. [Subscription needed]
• Terms of Service; Didn’t Read / PrivacySpy – Summarizes privacy policies and rates companies by trustworthiness.
• Deceptive Design – Defines, identifies, and catalogs dark patterns and deceptive design practices in various software and services.
• Dark Pattern Games – A game review website devoted to helping you find games that don't use psychological tricks to manipulate you into becoming an addicted gamer.