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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
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'''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 up to 36,973.<ref name=Lih/> This has been called "the most controversial move in Misplaced Pages history".<ref name=Lih/> 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 articles on many places in the ] 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 name=Lih/><ref name="rambot-faq"/> After generating the data for over 30,000 cities, it became apparent that manually creating articles would take too long, perhaps months.<ref name=Lih/> 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 name=Lih/>

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Misplaced Pages had just passed its 50,000th article on September 30, 2002‎, ], a county article created by Ramsey.<ref name="villagepump"/> Starting with ] on October 5, 2002‎, he ran the bot for the first time. It completed its first run on October 25, 2002 on ]. Over this time it increased the article count of Misplaced Pages by approximately 60%.<ref name=Lih/> It continued to run into early 2003 creating articles that could not be created during the first run due to naming problems and generating disambiguation pages. The result was the "rambot spike" shown in Misplaced Pages article count and growth graphs.<ref name=Lih/>

As the article count climbed, so to did the criticism. Some compared the article content to entries in a phone book<ref name="phonebook"/>, citing ].<ref name=Lih/> The "Random article" feature was rendered useless because it would return a boilerplate city article about half the time. The rambot had created so many orphan articles that the "orphan pages" feature used by some editors had to be abandoned<ref name="orphans"/>. ] thought that the minor cities should be outright deleted. Some of the articles created had incorrect data.<ref name="niederer"/><ref name="dijck"/> The rambot also ] in the article counter that had inflated the count of the number of articles in Misplaced Pages. The outrage generated policy discussions that would one day turn into policies such as ]. Eventually a consensus was reached and the none of the articles were deleted.<ref name=Lih/>

Perhaps the most serious problem was with the "Recent Changes" feature. Many editors used the feature to check for article vandalism, but could not find the articles through the hundreds of bot changes.<ref name="recentchanges"/> The bot had to be slowed to one modification per second or slower. Eventually the Misplaced Pages software developers created a "bot flag" that allowed bot changes to be hidden from recent changes listings by default.<ref name="botflag"/> Ramsey wrote the official ] to manage the bot flag and ensure that bots were approved and caused no damage.<ref name="botpolicy"/> He served on the Bot Approvals Group.

===Dot Project===
In early 2004, Misplaced Pages user ] started the ] to add maps to the rambot-created pages.<ref name="Lih"/> Ramsey signed up to ], uploading ].<ref name="dotproject"/>

===Multilicensing===
] and Derek Ramsey at a Misplaced Pages meetup in ] in December 2004]]
With the introduction and growing popularity of ] licenses and the ], there was a growing desire to either fix the GFDL or change to the ] license. The ] "]" was started in January 2004 to raise awareness. A few users agreed to multi-license their changes using the instructions provided.

On May 26, 2004, Misplaced Pages user ] introduced a dual-licensing ] to the English Misplaced Pages to make it easier to dual-license changes.<ref name="zhenlin"/> Following this, in November 2004, Ramsey created the Misplaced Pages ] along with a new collection of templates and started asking users on their User talk page to multi-license their changes.<ref name="multilicense"/> Many users agreed to multi-license their contributions, including some members of the Board of Trustees for the ].

At its peak, 12.8% of all users with at least 100 edits and almost 30% (or 1.5 million) main namespace edits were multi-licensed.<ref name=licenseprogress/> The success alarmed ], founder of Misplaced Pages. He was concerned that Ramsey was trying to fork Misplaced Pages. The two met at the ] ] on December 12, 2004 where they discussed the issue.<ref name="meetup"/> As a result he created a new template designed to give the Wikimedia Foundation permission to choose the license for the changes.<ref name="wikilicense"/> This method prevented anyone from forking Misplaced Pages while still allowing the Foundation licensing flexibility.

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Ramsey soon abandoned his efforts when it became clear that the Wikimedia Foundation, ], and ] were working together to make the Creative Commons Share Alike license compatible with the GFDL, eliminating the need for the multi-licensing effort. Misplaced Pages dual licensed in 2009.

===Article Citation===
In December 2004, frustrated by the lack of an easy way to cite sources when writing Misplaced Pages articles, Ramsey created a template to make citations for web sites.<ref name="webref"/> Through extensive development by other users, it grew in capability and scope.<ref name="citeweb"/> As of 2016, it is used in more than 2 million pages. The template, ], was the subject of an ] comic.<ref name="xkcd"/>

==Photography==
Ramsey joined Wikimedia Commons on November 4, 2004. He has uploaded ].

Ramsey took many photos of ] and ]s to illustrate these Misplaced Pages articles. It soon became clear that these images could be used to advocate for butterfly in the face of declining butterfly populations. The photos have been used to illustrate an academic paper<ref name="ubc.ca"/>, a cover article for the ] HerbalGram peer-reviewed journal<ref name="abc"/>, the ] conservation group<ref name="xerces"/>, the cover of a book<ref name="conservation"/>, and articles by ]<ref name="natgeo"/>, ]<ref name="popsci"/>, and the ]<ref name="ap"/>.

==Chess==
In high school, Ramsey played in the Pennsylvania State scholastic team chess tournament at ], scoring 2.5/5 in 1996 and 3/5 in 1995, 1997, and 1998. He lost to ] of ] in the opening round of the 1996 tournament, the same year the school won their first of four National High School Chess Championships. His official ] ] is . The highest rated player he has beaten was rated 2041.<ref name="uschess"/>

==Education==
Ramsey attended ] <ref name=parenttrip/>. He received a ] in ] in 2003 and a ] in ] and ] in 2010 from the ].<ref name=Lih/> He is currently a Software Engineering Manager.<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 ]. They reside in ].<ref name=parenttrip/> He has preached in the ] ]. His hobbies include photography, woodworking, cooking, gardening, chess, aquariums and computers.<ref name=Terdiman/>

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs=
<ref name=Ramsey>{{Cite web|first=Derek L.|last=Ramsey|title=Ram-Man|website=www.rit.edu|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|website=www.rit.edu|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=99–108|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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="editcount"></ref>
<ref name="linkedin">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramman LinkedIn profile</ref>
<ref name="rambot-faq">]: Rambot FAQ</ref>
<ref name="villagepump"></ref>
<ref name="phonebook"></ref>
<ref name="orphans"></ref>
<ref name="niederer">{{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}}</ref>
<ref name="dijck">{{Cite book|first1=Jose|last1=van Dijck|title=The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Culture_of_Connectivity.html?id=A6BqrWGIaFIC|publisher=Oxford University Press USA|date=Mar 21, 2013|isbn=978-0199970780}}</ref>
<ref name="zhenlin">]</ref>
<ref name="multilicense">], ], ], ], ]</ref>
<ref name="wikilicense">]</ref>
<ref name=licenseprogress>{{Cite web|title=User:Rambot#Progress|website=Misplaced Pages|first=Derek|last=Ramsey|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User:Rambot&oldid=713977737}}
</ref>
<ref name="meetup">]</ref>
<ref name="ubc.ca">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="xerces">{{Cite web|title=Western Monarch Count Resource Center|url=http://www.westernmonarchcount.org/|publisher=Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation|date=2016|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="abc">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="natgeo">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="popsci">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="ap">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="conservation">{{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|access-date=April 10, 2016}}. Cover</ref>
<ref name="uschess">{{Cite web|website=US Chess Federation|title=US Chess Federation - Member Services Area|url=http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?20103509|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="webref"></ref>
<ref name="citeweb"></ref>
<ref name="xkcd">{{Cite web|title=Citogensis|first=Randall|last=Munroe|website=xkcd.com|url=https://xkcd.com/978/|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="dotproject">{{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}}</ref>
<ref name="recentchanges"></ref>
<ref name="botflag"></ref>
<ref name="botpolicy"></ref>
}}

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**{{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|isbn=978-1617148125}}
**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}}

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