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Userboxes This user has aLinkedIn profile as userramman. 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 Countingbot edits, this user has over190,000 edits (50,000 on this account alone) on theEnglish Wikipedia, and as a result may beslightly insane. This user is interested in many things:preaching,aquariums,woodworking,carpentry,cooking,gardening,computers, andchess. The user is a member ofWikiproject Fishes. The user is asoftware engineer andmathematician. On Wikipedia the user is aninclusionisttransclusionistrealist. According toThe Political Compass this user is: Economic Neutral (−0.13) and Social Libertarian (−1.23)

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Hi, I'm Derek Ramsey, an avid Wikipedia supporter (since September, 2002) and formeradministrator ([1]). Here I am most well known for having authored thousands of articles on U.S.cities andcounties using therambot and other automatic article generation techniques. I've also contributed to numerous other areas including:

• Writing the officialbot policy ([2])
• Developing article citation ([3][4][5])
• Thedot project for Pennsylvania (seethe images)
• Attempting tomultilicense Wikipedia (Seeprogress)
• Uploaded lots of photos (featured pictures) for use in articles likeMonarch butterfly.

I am happily married and living with my wife Julie and kids (see our 2015 newspaper article) in theU.S. nearPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania. I have a B.S. degree incomputer science and M.S. in Software Development and Management from theRochester Institute of Technology. I am asoftware engineeringmanager at Sensaphone. I'm aphotographer,aquarist,woodworker/carpenter,chef, andgardener. I playchess as a hobby with an officialUSCFrating of1679. In the past I've preached in theChurch of the Brethrendenomination.

Having a strong background inmathematics, I am naturally drawn toprogramming andstatistics, which is part of the reason for the creation of the various geographic articles from gigabytes ofraw public domain data. I also enjoy writing about topics that have local implications for my birthplace inLancaster County, Pennsylvania, such as thesection oncovered bridges. I also have an interest in health related topics partially due to my wife, anOccupational Therapist. One of my hobbies is as anaquarist, and so I have written many articles of a variety offreshwater fish species.

Between my three user accounts (including thebot), 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 byAndrew 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

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 ofPhotographs by Derek Ramsey. Please see that page for photo licensing information or theLicensing Guide.

Some of my favorites:

For information pertaining to therambot seeFAQ orother information.

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  Notice the so-called "rambot bump" in late 2002.