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Derek Ramsey
Derek Ramsey, 2004
Born (1980-05-22) May 22, 1980 (age 44)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Other namesRam-Man
Alma materRochester Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S.)
OccupationSoftware Engineering Manager
Known forMisplaced Pages bot

Derek Lee Ramsey (born May 22, 1980 in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a contributor to the English-language Misplaced Pages, who is known most for his activity in October 2002, where he created a bot to create stubs for every missing county, town, city, and, village in the United States, based on free information from the United States Census of 2000. He thus increased the number of Misplaced Pages articles by 36,973. This has been called "the most controversial move in Misplaced Pages history". An article in Wired News in 2005 referred to him as the "No. 1 most active Wikipedian".

Misplaced Pages

Ramsey joined Misplaced Pages on September 8, 2002, having first heard about Misplaced Pages and Nupedia on Slashdot. He was made an administrator in June, 2003. He has 196,000 edits using the user accounts User:Ram-Man, User:RM, and User:Rambot.

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 geographic data, such as coordinates. 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. After generating the data for 33,832 cities, it became apparent that manually creating articles would take too long, perhaps months. Ramsey put his Java programming skills to use and made a bot that would upload each generated article one by one.

The "rambot bump" in late 2002

Article Citation

  • Developing article citation ()

Dot Project

Multilicensing

Photos

Ramsey joined Wikimedia Commons on November 4, 2004.

Photography

Monarch Butterfly

Chess

Played in the Pennsylvania State scholastic chess tournament at Bloomsburg University, scoring 2.5/5 in 1996 and 3/5 in 1995, 1997, and 1998. Lost to Greg Shahade in the 1996 tournament, the same year the Julia R. Masterman School won their first of four National High School Chess Championships. Official USCF rating of 1679. The highest rated player he has won against was 2041.

Education

Ramsey attended Lancaster Mennonite High School . He received a B.S. in computer science in 2003 and a M.S. in software development and management in 2010 from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Personal Life

Derek is married to Julie Ramsey, an occupational therapist, and has four children: Avery, Logan, Addilyn, and Lucy. The latter two are both adopted from China. He has preached in the Church of the Brethren denomination. His hobbies include photography, woodworking, cooking, gardening, chess, aquariums and computers.

References

  1. Ramsey, Derek L. "Ram-Man". Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; September 16, 2004 suggested (help)
  2. Lih, Andrew (March 17, 2009). The Misplaced Pages Revolution. Hachette Digital, Inc. pp. 99–106. ISBN 9781401395858.
  3. Lih, p. 99.
  4. ^ Terdiman, Daniel (March 8, 2005). "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life". Wired. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  5. User:Ram-Man contributions
  6. "Britannica and Free Content". Slashdot. 26 July 2001.
  7. Ramsey, Derek L. "Ram-Man". Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; August 26, 2001 suggested (help)
  8. Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_adminship history
  9. Rambot edit countRM edit countRam-Man edit count
  10. Lih, p. 100-101.
  11. User talk:Rambot: Rambot FAQ
  12. Lih, p. 101.
  13. Lih, p. 101.
  14. ^ Hochman, Anndee (October 7, 2015). "The Parent Trip: Julie and Derek Ramsey of Aston". The Inquirer.
  15. Lih, p. 100.
  16. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramman LinkedIn profile