Talk:Semapedia in Ghana

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Vanity?

How many times have you seen African technology being used in the West? How many things do we buy from you guys and how often do we give back? Why shouldn't this be something to be happy about? Where have you seen this before?

Too new?

I don't even know how to get started on that. Why is it that something that is too new does not deserve to be included in the Wikipedia?

Wikinews?

I think there's a point here. Go ahead and delete this article, ok? If that's how you started to treat people when you were first creating your content, it is a surprise that you did get so much content.

Two out of two. Contributed two bits of information. Both get 'deleted'. I'm done, I think. Maybe in a few years time, you will find more people from Africa getting interested in contributing more ... Not me.

It's so easy to delete stuff. It's so easy to say it violates copyright. Then when the copyright holder gives permission, no one takes any action. When someone writes something alternative because of that, it gets deleted.

Why don't you try editing it instead if you have a problem with it? I thought that was the whole point of this volunteer driven thing?

Guido 12:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vanity

Here goes. I have removed all personal references to myself,

• as the author of the article
• as the person who made the presentation
• as a developer of some of the free (GPL) Semacode software out there
• and also removed the link to the actual presentation that I made

• • Re-added link to presentation as an external link. May be of interest to readers.

As someone who is trying to use this to get other Africans interested not only in tagging Semacodes to Wikipedia articles, but to begin contributing to Wikipedia itself, I feel that I deserve at least a mention. But in deference to the vanity charge, I've foregone this.

[edit] Noteworthiness

If you can find any African developed software that is in use in the West today, I would be grateful if you can tell me. Not only that, I am not talking about old technology, such as database driven software/web sites but about things that are new and noteworthy in themselves.

Given that Semacode has been written about in the Economist magazine, that until this event, there was not one Semapedia entry from Africa, that a collateral effect was to create content for AITI-KACE, that I have approximately 30 Africans that I have created a mailing list for, that we need one article in Wikipedia to get these people interested, that I am not a seasoned Wikipedia editor and this is only the beginning of my contributions, would you please give me a break and edit the thing yourself if you really feel so strongly as to put it on the deletion list?

[edit] Wikinews

If you really feel this belongs more to Wikinews, please place it there yourself. Right now, I'm two articles, for two deleted and I think it is time for people to show me how to do stuff instead of just criticizing.

• I've edited the article according to suggestions and also placed it under the Wikinews site. If you still feel this is not appropriate, please show me how to improve it further!! Guido 22:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reading this. Apologies if it sounds like a rant, because I'm not currently a happy camper with all the copyright violations and deletions going on.

Guido 16:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)