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| Derek Ramsey | |
|---|---|
 Derek Ramsey, 2004 | |
| Born | (1980-05-22) May 22, 1980 (age 44) Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Ram-Man |
| Alma mater | Rochester Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S.) |
| Occupation | Software Engineering Manager |
| Known for | Misplaced 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.
- Written in Java
- Writing the official bot policy ()
- Topics
- Notability
- Orphan Pages:
- Article count bug: Misplaced Pages:History_of_Wikipedia_bots
- Recent Changes:
- Random Article:
- Bot flag:
- Bot policy
- Trivia
Article Citation
Dot Project
- The dot project for Pennsylvania (see the images)
- "08 March 2005". Great Map. March 8, 2005.
Multilicensing
- Attempting to multilicense Misplaced Pages (See progress)
- Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC/December 2004
Photos
Ramsey joined Wikimedia Commons on November 4, 2004.
Photography
Monarch Butterfly
- "BC's Coast Region: Species & Ecosystems of Conservation Concern Monarch (Danaus plexippus)" (PDF). University of British Columbia. March 2011.
- "Western Monarch Count Resource Center". Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. 2016.
- Yong, Ed (January 25, 2013). "Chinese Mantis Guts Its Toxic Caterpillar Prey". Phenomena. National Geographic.
- Diep, Francie (November 5, 2013). "Americans Would Pay $4 Billion To Save Monarch Butterflies". Popular Science.
- Mader, Lindsay Stafford (February 2014). "Milkweed: Medicine of Monarchs and Humans". HerbalGram (101). American Botanical Council: 38-47.
- López-Hoffman, Laura; McGovern, Emily D.; Varady, Robert G.; Flessa, Karl W. (eds.). Conservation of Shared Environments: Learning from the United States and Mexico. ISBN 978-0816528783.: Cover
- Flaccus, Gillian. "How California's Drought Is Helping Monarch Butterflies". kqed.org. Associated Press.
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
- 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) - Lih, Andrew (March 17, 2009). The Misplaced Pages Revolution. Hachette Digital, Inc. pp. 99–106. ISBN 9781401395858.
- Lih, p. 99.
- ^ Terdiman, Daniel (March 8, 2005). "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life". Wired. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- User:Ram-Man contributions
- "Britannica and Free Content". Slashdot. 26 July 2001.
- 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) - Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_adminship history
- Rambot edit countRM edit countRam-Man edit count
- Lih, p. 100.
- Cite error: The named reference
rambot-faqwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hochman, Anndee (October 7, 2015). "The Parent Trip: Julie and Derek Ramsey of Aston". The Inquirer.
- Lih, p. 100.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramman LinkedIn profile
- Rambot
- Niederer, S.; van Dijck, J. (2010). "Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Misplaced Pages as a sociotechnical system". Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Jose van Dijck, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
- Anderson, Jennifer Joline (2011). Misplaced Pages: The company and its founders.
- Fred Kaplan, Professor in Digital Humanities at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Kaplan, Frederic (May 26, 2015). "16 des 20 contributeurs les plus actifs sur Misplaced Pages sont des bots". fkaplan.wordpress.com.
- Frederic Kaplan (April 1, 2015). "Derek Ramsey develops the first Misplaced Pages bot called rambot in 2002. Rambot created 33000 articles, at a rate of thousands of articles/day" (Tweet). Retrieved April 8, 2016 – via Twitter.
- Livingstone, Randall M. Network of Knowledge: Misplaced Pages as a Sociotechnical System of Intelligence (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Oregon. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- Livingstone, Randall M. (January 4, 2016). "Population automation: An interview with Misplaced Pages bot pioneer Ram-Man". First Monday. 21 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v21i1.6027.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Pink, Daniel H. (March 1, 2005). "The Book Stops Here". WIRED.
- Holloway, Todd; Božicevic, Miran; Börner, Katy. "Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Misplaced Pages and Its Authors" (PDF). Complexity (Understanding Complex Systems). Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- Other References
- Caywood, Thomas (September 28, 2006). "Answering Misplaced Pages's call to fill in the blanks". The Boston Globe.: Behind a paywall
- Harvey, Troy. "Peer Collaboration to Maintain Hypertext Collections" (PDF). Speed School of Engineering.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help): Quotes from Daniel Terdiman. - Male, Aimee. "Misplaced Pages: The People's Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 4 May 2007.: References edit count
- Steiner, Thomas. "Bots vs. wikipedians, anons vs. logged-ins" (PDF). Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web: 547-548.
- Niederer, S.; van Dijck, J. (2010). "Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Misplaced Pages as a sociotechnical system". Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.