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| {{Infobox person | |||
| | name = Derek Ramsey | |||
| | image = Derek Ramsey Ram-Man Portrait 600px.jpg | |||
| | caption = Derek Ramsey, 2004 | |||
| | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|05|22}} | |||
| | birth_place = ] | |||
| | nationality = American | |||
| | other_names = ] | |||
| | known_for = ] ] | |||
| | alma_mater = ] (] and ]) | |||
| | occupation = Software Engineering Manager | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Derek Lee Ramsey''' (born May 22, 1980 in ], ], ]<ref name=Ramsey/>) is a contributor to the ], who is known most for his activity in October 2002, where he created a ] to create ] for every missing ], town, city, and, village in the United States, based on ] information from the United States ] of 2000. He thus increased the number of Misplaced Pages articles by 36,973.<ref name=Lih/> This has been called "the most controversial move in Misplaced Pages history".<ref>Lih, p. 99.</ref> An article in ''Wired News'' in 2005 referred to him as the "No. 1 most active Wikipedian".<ref name=Terdiman/> | |||
| ==Misplaced Pages== | |||
| Ramsey joined Misplaced Pages on September 8, 2002<ref name="wiki-join"/>, having first heard about Misplaced Pages and ] on ]<ref name="slashdot26july"/><ref name=Ramsey-links/>. He was made an ] in June, 2003.<ref name="wiki-admin"/> He has 196,000 edits<ref name="editcount"/> using the user accounts ], ], and ]. | |||
| ===Rambot=== | |||
| Immediately upon joining Misplaced Pages, he started working on articles related to geography. Realizing that many city articles did not exist, he turned to the Census Bureau and other public sources of ], such as ]. The data was compiled into a unified database. From this source data, text for 3,141 county articles was generated and he manually copied and pasted them into new Misplaced Pages pages.<ref>Lih, p. 100-101.</ref><ref name="rambot-faq"/> After generating the data for 33,832 cities, it became apparent that manually creating articles would take too long, perhaps months.<ref>Lih, p. 101.</ref> Ramsey put his Java programming skills to use and made a bot that would upload each generated article one by one.<ref name=Terdiman/><ref>Lih, p. 101.</ref> | |||
| ] | |||
| *Writing the official ] () | |||
| *Topics | |||
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| **Orphan Pages: | |||
| **Article count bug: ] | |||
| **Recent Changes: | |||
| **Random Article: | |||
| **Bot flag: | |||
| **Bot policy | |||
| *Trivia | |||
| **50,000 article: | |||
| ===Article Citation=== | |||
| *Developing article citation () | |||
| ===Dot Project=== | |||
| *The ] for Pennsylvania (see ]) | |||
| *{{Cite web|website=Great Map|title=08 March 2005|date=March 8, 2005|url=http://greatmap.blogspot.com/2005/03/mindmap-training-training-courses-on.html}} | |||
| ===Multilicensing=== | |||
| *Attempting to ] (See ]) | |||
| *] | |||
| ===Photos=== | |||
| Ramsey joined Wikimedia Commons on November 4, 2004. | |||
| ==Photography== | |||
| ===Monarch Butterfly=== | |||
| *{{Cite web|title=BC's Coast Region: Species & Ecosystems of Conservation Concern Monarch (Danaus plexippus)|url=http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/factsheets/pdf/Danaus_plexippus.pdf|publisher=University of British Columbia|date=March 2011}} | |||
| *{{Cite web|title=Western Monarch Count Resource Center|url=http://www.westernmonarchcount.org/|publisher=Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation|date=2016}} | |||
| *{{Cite web|publisher=National Geographic|department=Phenomena|last=Yong|first=Ed|title=Chinese Mantis Guts Its Toxic Caterpillar Prey|url=http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/25/chinese-mantis-guts-its-toxic-caterpillar-prey/|date=January 25, 2013}} | |||
| *{{Cite web|publisher=Popular Science|title=Americans Would Pay $4 Billion To Save Monarch Butterflies|date=November 5, 2013|last=Diep|first=Francie|url=http://www.popsci.com/article/science/americans-would-pay-4-billion-save-monarch-butterflies}} | |||
| *{{Cite journal|title=Milkweed: Medicine of Monarchs and Humans|issue=101|page=38-47|journal=HerbalGram|publisher=American Botanical Council|date=February 2014|first=Lindsay Stafford|last=Mader|url=http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue101/HG101-feat-monarchmilkweed.html?ts=1460137721&signature=b0c51d72bd81f16b860a1b7443bf8644}} | |||
| *{{Cite book|title=Conservation of Shared Environments: Learning from the United States and Mexico|editor1-last=López-Hoffman |editor1-first=Laura |editor2-last=McGovern |editor2-first=Emily D. |editor3-last=Varady |editor3-first=Robert G. |editor4-last=Flessa |editor4-first=Karl W.|isbn=978-0816528783}}: Cover | |||
| *{{Cite web|title=How California’s Drought Is Helping Monarch Butterflies|publisher=Associated Press|website=kqed.org|first=Gillian|last=Flaccus|url=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/20/how-californias-drought-is-helping-monarch-butterflies}} | |||
| ==Chess== | |||
| Played in the Pennsylvania State scholastic chess tournament at ], scoring 2.5/5 in 1996 and 3/5 in 1995, 1997, and 1998. Lost to ] in the 1996 tournament, the same year the ] won their first of four National High School Chess Championships. Official ] ] of . The highest rated player he has won against was 2041. | |||
| ==Education== | |||
| Ramsey attended ] <ref name=parenttrip/>. He received a ] in ] in 2003 and a ] in ] and ] in 2010 from the ]<ref>Lih, p. 100.</ref><ref name="linkedin"/>. | |||
| ==Personal Life== | |||
| Derek is married to Julie Ramsey, an ], and has four children: ], Logan, Addilyn, and Lucy. The latter two are both adopted from ].<ref name=parenttrip/> He has preached in the ] ]. His hobbies include photography, woodworking, cooking, gardening, chess, aquariums and computers.<ref name=Terdiman/> | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist|refs= | |||
| <ref name=Ramsey>{{Cite web|first=Derek L.|last=Ramsey|title=Ram-Man|url=http://www.rit.edu/~dlr1225/me.html|archive-date=April 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040916190239/http://www.rit.edu/~dlr1225/me.html}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name=Ramsey-links>{{Cite web|first=Derek L.|last=Ramsey|title=Ram-Man|url=http://www.rit.edu/~dlr1225/links.html|archive-date=April 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010826073705/http://www.rit.edu/~dlr1225/links.html}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name=Lih>{{cite book|last=Lih|first=Andrew|title=The Misplaced Pages Revolution|date=March 17, 2009|publisher=Hachette Digital, Inc|isbn=9781401395858|pages=99–106|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AWuZAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Derek+Ramsey+%28Wikipedian%29%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=84cjU-uYHuGNygHaoYGABw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Derek%20Ramsey%20%28Wikipedian%29%22&f=false|authorlink=Andrew Lih}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name=Terdiman>{{cite web|last=Terdiman|first=Daniel|title=Wiki Becomes a Way of Life|url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/03/66814?currentPage=all|archive-date=April 8, 2016|archive-url=http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/03/66814?currentPage=all|publisher=Wired|accessdate=March 14, 2014|date=March 8, 2005}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name="wiki-join">] contributions]</ref> | |||
| <ref name="slashdot26july">{{cite web |title = Britannica and Free Content |url = http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/26/0312258.shtml |publisher = Slashdot |date = 26 July 2001}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name="wiki-admin">] history]</ref> | |||
| <ref name=parenttrip>{{Cite newspaper|title=The Parent Trip: Julie and Derek Ramsey of Aston|first=Anndee|last=Hochman|publisher=The Inquirer|date=October 7, 2015|url=http://articles.philly.com/2015-10-07/entertainment/67202060_1_julie-addie-cerebral-palsy}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name="editcount"></ref> | |||
| <ref name="linkedin">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramman LinkedIn profile</ref> | |||
| <ref name="rambot-faq">]: Rambot FAQ</ref> | |||
| }} | |||
| *Rambot | |||
| **{{Cite Journal|first1=S.|last1=Niederer|first2=J.|last2=van Dijck|year=2010|institution=Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis|title=Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Misplaced Pages as a sociotechnical system|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/2/90402}} | |||
| **Jose van Dijck, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media | |||
| **{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Jennifer Joline|date=2011|title=Misplaced Pages: The company and its founders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ql0ic5dTmgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Misplaced Pages+The+company+and+its+founders&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ1tidv__LAhUCOCYKHULZDMEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Misplaced Pages%20The%20company%20and%20its%20founders&f=false}} | |||
| **Fred Kaplan, Professor in Digital Humanities at ] | |||
| ***{{Cite web|website=fkaplan.wordpress.com|last1=Kaplan|first1=Frederic|title=16 des 20 contributeurs les plus actifs sur Misplaced Pages sont des bots|date=May 26, 2015|url=https://fkaplan.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/16-des-20-contributeurs-les-plus-actifs-sur-wikipedia-sont-des-bots/}} | |||
| ***{{Cite tweet |author=Frederic Kaplan |user=frederickaplan |number=583180584203190273 |date=April 1, 2015 |title=Derek Ramsey develops the first Misplaced Pages bot called rambot in 2002. Rambot created 33000 articles, at a rate of thousands of articles/day. |access-date=April 8, 2016 }} | |||
| **{{Cite thesis|last=Livingstone|first=Randall M.|type=Ph.D. dissertation|title=Network of Knowledge: Misplaced Pages as a Sociotechnical System of Intelligence|url=https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/12517/Livingstone_oregon_0171A_10498.pdf|publisher=University of Oregon|access-date=April 8, 2016}} | |||
| **{{Cite journal|last=Livingstone|first=Randall M.|title=Population automation: An interview with Misplaced Pages bot pioneer Ram-Man|journal=First Monday|volume=21|issue=1|date=January 4, 2016|url=http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6027|doi=10.5210/fm.v21i1.6027}} | |||
| **{{Cite magazine|title=The Book Stops Here|first=Daniel H.|last=Pink|magazine=WIRED|date=March 1, 2005|url=http://www.wired.com/2005/03/}} | |||
| **{{Cite journal|last1=Holloway|first1=Todd|last2=Božicevic|first2=Miran|last3=Börner|first3=Katy|title=Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Misplaced Pages and Its Authors|journal=Complexity|issue=Understanding Complex Systems|access-date=April 8, 2016|url=http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/papers/holloway-0000-analvizwikipedia.pdf}} | |||
| **Other References | |||
| ***{{Cite web|title=Answering Misplaced Pages's call to fill in the blanks|publisher=The Boston Globe|last=Caywood|first=Thomas|date=September 28, 2006|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/28/answering_wikipedias_call_to_fill_in_the_blanks}}: Behind a paywall | |||
| ***{{Cite journal|last=Harvey|first=Troy|title=Peer Collaboration to Maintain Hypertext Collections|publisher=Speed School of Engineering|url=http://troyharvey.com/files/Peer%20Collaboration%20to%20Maintain%20Hypertext%20Collections.pdf}}: Quotes from Daniel Terdiman. | |||
| ***{{Cite web|title=Misplaced Pages: The People's Encyclopedia|first=Aimee|last=Male|url=http://www.netclearly.com/index.php?cat=61&art=126|archive-date=4 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504225739/http://www.netclearly.com/index.php?cat=61&art=126}}: References edit count | |||
| ***{{Cite journal|title=Bots vs. wikipedians, anons vs. logged-ins|last=Steiner|first=Thomas|journal=Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web|page=547-548|url=http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0412v2.pdf}} | |||