User:Ram-Man

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Userboxes en This user is a native speaker of English. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español and un poco Spanglish as well. This user lives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This user's second home is in an Amish Covered Bridge This user is a Wikipedian cartographer This user is a Wikipedian photgrapher, having uploaded more than 1000 pictures. (WooHoo :) !!!) Wikipedia is this user's second life. 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)

Focusing on adding photography to articles

[edit] Commentary

Hi, I'm Derek Ramsey, an avid (Old Score: 212) Wikipedia supporter (since September, 2002) and administrator (since June 28, 2003)[1], although I frequently take large amounts of time between short bursts of editing. 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 am a happily married male living in the U.S. near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I have a B.S. degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am employed as a software engineer (see: resume) and occasionally work part-time as a preacher in the Church of the Brethren denomination. I'm a photographer, aquarist, woodworker/carpenter, chef, and gardener. I play chess as a hobby with an official USCF rating of 1679.

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.

I'm pretty easygoing and don't mind emails from users with any type of question or comment for me. Feel free to email me. I check my mail more often than my user talk page. Also, if you have an Information Technology job anywhere for my friend Michael Sauder, that would be great too (See: resume).

Between my three user accounts (including the bot), I'm approaching 200,000 edits on Wikipedia and have sometimes 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, and academic research reports:

• 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

[edit] Images and Image Licensing

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.

For those technical-minded individuals, I typically shoot pictures from a number of cameras with a variety of lenses and filters. The images that I upload come mostly from the following cameras:

Digital

• Nikon D50
  1. Tokina 12-24mm f/4
  2. Nikon Nikkor ED AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
  3. Nikon Nikkor ED-IF AF-S DX 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
  4. Quantaray AI-S Auto Zoom 80-200mm 1:3.8 Macro
  5. Quantaray AF Zoom 70-300mm 1:4-5.6D LDO Macro
• Nikon Coolpix 8700
  1. Nikon Zoom Nikkor ED 8.9-71.2mm 1:2.8-4.2 (Built-in)
  2. Nikon WC-E80 0.8x Wide Converter
• Canon PowerShot S1 IS
  1. Canon 1:2.8-3.1 USM 10x Zoom Lens (Built-in)
• FujiFilm FinePix S5000

Film

• Canon EOS Elan II

[edit] Article Licensing

All English Wikipedia main, main talk, and template namespace articles or edits produced by Ram-Man (Derek Ramsey) are dual licensed as described below. Any other namespace (such as Wikipedia:) is excluded. This license is retroactive, however, I reserve the right to cease using the dual license at any time by removing this notice from my page. The most recent notice shall have priority. I encourage you to dual-license your contributions as well.

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text contributions under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

For information pertaining to the rambot see FAQ or other information.