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{{Distinguish|Derek Ramsay|The_Apprentice_(Irish_TV_series)}}
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'''Derek Ramsey''' is an [[editor]] of Wikipedia, who is known most for his activity in October 2002, where he created a [[Internet bot|bot]] to create [[Wikipedia:Stub|stubs]] for every town, city, and, village in the United States, based on [[libre|free]] information from the United States [[Census]] of [[2000]]. He thus increased the number of Wikipedia articles by 33,832.<ref>Andrew Lih, ''The Wikipedia Revolution'', pp. 99-106</ref> This has been called "the most controversial move in Wikipedia history".<ref>Lih, p. 99.</ref> An article in ''Wired News'' in 2005 referred to him as the "No. 1 most active Wikipedian".<ref>Daniel Terdiman, "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life", March 8, 2005. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/03/66814?currentPage=all</ref>
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