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This user believes that articles are nearly useless without images (and thinks it ironic that this userbox doesn't have an image)
190,000
50,000
Counting
bot edits
, this user has over
190,000
edits (
50,000
on this account alone) on the
English Wikipedia
, and as a result may be
slightly insane
This user is interested in many things:
preaching
aquariums
woodworking
carpentry
cooking
gardening
computers
, and
chess
. The user is a member of
Wikiproject Fishes
. The user is a
software engineer
and
mathematician
. On Wikipedia the user is an
inclusionist
transclusionist
realist
According to
The Political Compass
this user is:
Economic Neutral (
−0.13
and
Social Libertarian (
−1.23
See also:
My user page
on Wikimedia Commons
My
personal website
About Me
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Hi, I'm Derek Ramsey, an avid Wikipedia supporter (since September, 2002) and former
administrator
[1]
). Here I am most well known for having authored thousands of articles on U.S.
cities
and
counties
using the
rambot
and other automatic article generation techniques. I've also contributed to numerous other areas including:
Writing the official
bot policy
[2]
Developing article citation (
[3]
[4]
[5]
The
dot project
for Pennsylvania (see
the images
Attempting to
multilicense Wikipedia
(See
progress
Uploaded lots of photos (
featured pictures
) for use in articles like
Monarch butterfly
I am happily married and living with my wife Julie and kids (
see our 2015 newspaper article
) in the
U.S.
near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. I have a B.S. degree in
computer science
and M.S. in Software Development and Management from the
Rochester Institute of Technology
. I am a
software engineering
manager
at Sensaphone. I'm a
photographer
aquarist
woodworker
carpenter
chef
, and
gardener
. I play
chess
as a hobby with an official
USCF
rating
of
1679
. In the past I've preached in the
Church of the Brethren
denomination
Having a strong background in
mathematics
, I am naturally drawn to
programming
and
statistics
, which is part of the reason for the creation of the various geographic articles from gigabytes of
raw public domain data
. I also enjoy writing about topics that have local implications for my birthplace in
Lancaster County
, Pennsylvania, such as the
section
on
covered bridges
. I also have an interest in health related topics partially due to my wife, an
Occupational Therapist
. One of my hobbies is as an
aquarist
, and so I have written many articles of a variety of
freshwater fish species
Between my three user accounts (including the
bot
), I'm approaching 200,000 edits on Wikipedia and have at times early in Wikipedia's history had the highest number of raw edit counts. As a result of the sheer number of edits combined with the controversy sometimes caused by those changes and the attention that it has brought me, I have been mentioned by name in a number of articles, web sites, academic research reports, and a book:
Wikipedia Revolution
by
Andrew Lih
WIRED Magazine: The Book Stops Here
WIRED News: Wiki Becomes a Way of Life
Wikipedia: The People's Encyclopedia
Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and its Authors
Peer Collaboration to Maintain Hypertext Collections
The People Behind Wiki
Great Map
Answering Wikipedia's call to fill in the blanks
(Not mentioned by name, only by rambot content)
History of Wikipedia
Images and Image Licensing
edit
As a photographer I've taken thousands of pictures. I'm in the process of uploading more to Wikipedia with the goal of making Wikipedia articles contain high quality, professional-looking pictures. There are too many images to list on this page, but you can see the complete list of
Photographs by Derek Ramsey
. Please see that page for photo licensing information or the
Licensing Guide
Some of my favorites:
Rambot
edit
For information pertaining to the
rambot
see
FAQ
or
other information
Notice the so-called "rambot bump" in late 2002.
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