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Derek Ramsey | |
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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 up to 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
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- Rambot
- 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. (January 4, 2016). "Population automation: An interview with Misplaced Pages bot pioneer Ram-Man". First Monday. 21 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v21i1.6027.
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- 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.
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- Steiner, Thomas. "Bots vs. wikipedians, anons vs. logged-ins" (PDF). Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web: 547-548.
- Fred Kaplan, Professor in Digital Humanities at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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- ^ 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". www.rit.edu. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016.
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- ^ Anderson, Jennifer Joline (2011). Misplaced Pages: The company and its founders. ISBN 978-1617148125.
- Hochman, Anndee (October 7, 2015). "The Parent Trip: Julie and Derek Ramsey of Aston". The Inquirer. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramman LinkedIn profile
- User talk:Rambot: Rambot FAQ
- 50,000 article reference
- Bot policy discussion
- Village pump orphan page discussion
- 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.
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- Ramsey, Derek. "User:Rambot#Progress". Misplaced Pages.
- Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC/December 2004
- "BC's Coast Region: Species & Ecosystems of Conservation Concern Monarch (Danaus plexippus)" (PDF). University of British Columbia. March 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- "Western Monarch Count Resource Center". Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- Mader, Lindsay Stafford (February 2014). "Milkweed: Medicine of Monarchs and Humans". HerbalGram (101). American Botanical Council: 38-47. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- Yong, Ed (January 25, 2013). "Chinese Mantis Guts Its Toxic Caterpillar Prey". Phenomena. National Geographic. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- Diep, Francie (November 5, 2013). "Americans Would Pay $4 Billion To Save Monarch Butterflies". Popular Science. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- Flaccus, Gillian. "How California's Drought Is Helping Monarch Butterflies". kqed.org. Associated Press. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- 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.
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- Web reference history
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- Munroe, Randall. "Citogensis". xkcd.com. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- "08 March 2005". Great Map. March 8, 2005.
- 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.