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| − | = About me =
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| − | *'''Joined: November 1, 2008
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| − | *'''Became active on Wikimapia: December 27, 2010
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| − | *'''Started project to clean up the Southern US: January 6, 2012
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| − | *'''Became Documentor: February 9, 2012
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| − | *'''Began to have watch over entire Southern US: July 4, 2012
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| − | *'''Became Advanced User: December 31, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
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| − | *'''February 12, 2013
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| − | *'''Added polygons to all squares in the South: January 19, 2013
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| − | *'''Reached 100,000 Edits: January 27, 2013, 2:45 PM EST
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| − | *'''Watch Area: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.
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| − | *'''Every edit there is being watched by me and sometimes other users do NOT fool around!
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| − | = My history on Wikimapia =
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| − | ==2008-2010==
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| − | ===Pre-registration===
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| − | I first found Wikimapia in mid 2008, Initially I didn't have time (or a computer available to me 24/7) to do much on Wikimapia. I created places here and there such as lakes or volcanic features as a guest.
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| − | ===Registration and 2 year inactivity===
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| − | On November 1st 2008 I decided to register on Wikimapia, due to not having an available computer 24/7 until 2010 my edits were sporadic for the next 2 years, in December 2010 that was about to change when I got my first computer.
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| − | ===Finding an unmonitored area===
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| − | In December 2010 I started to go around many areas like Canada and adding polygons to squares on very large lakes. In Mid January I got into a couple disagreements with a couple advanced users on a few edits and noticed some users had a specific area they monitored, I noticed that my favorite place Clermont was not monitored by anyone and I wanted to map out the unusually hilly Florida town, and that's how my first project began.
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| − | == 2011 ==
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| − | ===Clermont, Florida watchlist and the beginning of a new major Wikimapia user (late January-September 2011)===
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| − | I began to map out the roads, subdivisions, parks, stores and everything in Clermont, this began to expand outward and eventually cover a large portion of Lake County, Florida, by the time I got done mapping out the area I wanted to map I had made over 10000 places and 40000 edits. I had this idea to watch over a place and choose to start watching over north Florida in September 2011 (no one had a watchlist there).
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| − | ===Catching first speed-tagger, plan to start project in South (October 2011-December 2011)===
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| − | Soon after making the Florida watchlist I caught my first speed editor in Tallahassee in October (and banned him after negligence to listen to multiple warnings) and in December I noticed that beyond the Florida's border lay the entire Southern US, unwatched since Wikimapia was founded and filled with the results of vandalism, speed editing, and spam. The annoyance of seeing such negligence on an area I have been interested in for the last few years convinced me to make it my 2012 project.
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| − | Meanwhile I was finding many bugs or ideas on Wikimapia and I began to report news events on the forum.
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| − | == 2012 ==
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| − | ===Project on the South===
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| − | *'''Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi (January-February 2012)
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| − | On the sixth of January I created watchlists for Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. One thing I noticed were the numerous squares without polygons and I began a project to eliminate them, meanwhile I began to teach new users about how to use Wikimapia.
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| − | *'''Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (March 2012)
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| − | In March I created watchlists for Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. I also began a collaboration to improve the Southern US which I monitor to ensure only users who have made edits in the South join it.
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| − | *'''Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia(May 2012)
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| − | In May I created watchlists for Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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| − | *'''Oklahoma and Texas (June 2012)
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| − | In June I created watchlists for Oklahoma and Texas.
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| − | *'''South Florida(July 2012)
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| − | In July I added a watchlist for South Florida and have since acted as the guardian of the Southern US.
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| − | ===Advanced User===
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| − | On December 31st exactly when 2013 began in GMT I was promoted to an advanced user.
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| − | == 2013 ==
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| − | *''' Added polygons to final square in the South
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| − | On Jaunary 19th I added a polygon to the final square in the South.
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| − | *'''Place with triangular polygon, outline the rest of the counties in the South.
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| − | After outlining the last square in the South I am now improving the outlines of already created counties and creating new ones since the "Too big polygon" issue has been fixed for Advanced Users.
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| − | *'''Places without polygon in South Arizona, South Florida, Missouri, South New Mexico, Virginia portion of Delmarva, North panhandle of West Virginia.
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| − | I will be starting a project to eliminate the squares in these areas soon.
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| − | == Promotion to Documenter Status ==
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| − | Years ago Wikimapia had a tutorial for it's functions called "User Guide". In 2011 developing difficulty's in editing the user guide along with a Russian interface contrary to English being the main Forum language caused the user guide to become obsolete. In February, 2012 a new tutorial for Wikimapia was announced named "Documentation" with calls for users to volunteer in editing it and further developing it. I decided to join on February 9th and became a Documentor along with 12 other users.
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| − | == Promotion to Advanced User Status ==
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| − | On December 31st (January 1st for GMT east) I was promoted to Advanced User status as the last advanced user of 2012 or the first of 2013. I prefer to be labeled as the last Advanced User of 2012 because I use EST (Eastern Standard Time) which in the Western Hemisphere was still in 2012.
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| − | =Projects=
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| − | == Major Projects ==
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| − | *''' 2011 Clermont, Florida
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| − | *''' 2012 Add polygons to squares in the entire South (Southern US).
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| − | *''' 2013 ???
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| − | == Minor Projects ==
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| − | These are minor projects that I may work on a little bit every now and then.
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| − | *'''Ocklawaha Watershed
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| − | In this I am drawing tributaries of the Ocklawaha River in Florida
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| − | *'''Tibesti
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| − | The volcanic Tibesti Mountains lie in an area of the Sahara Desert that is almost entirely devoid of edits by other users even when compared to the rest of the desert. I map out a feature of the volcanoes every now and then when I feel like taking a break from work in the US.
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| − | = Other =
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| − | I prefer to be contacted through WM messaging, use private only if you have a conflict with another user that needs to be resolved. I don't have a Facebook, Twitter or any other form of communication and I am not planning to get one.
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| − | ==Notes about me==
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| − | *'''Low number of General votes
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| − | I don't give out many votes (normal ones not Advanced User promotion ones) and as a result receiving one from me is a rare occurrence. They are usually given out for very consistent good contributions to the South.
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| − | *'''Large number of category edits
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| − | I make a large number of category edits in the South because I think that all category edits in my area should not be without including the fixing of a badly drawn polygon, the building box, or a translation to English. I also like to make requests to fix categories. I am probably the closest thing to an American Category Moderator there ever will be as a result (Due to the refusal to promote one).
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| − | =Info that might actually be of use to your experience on Wikimapia=
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| − | Here are some things that you might want to know to improve your work in Wikimapia
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| − | ==Tips to a better Wikimapia experience (to be done)==
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| − | *'''Building box ("This place is a building")
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| − | When creating or editing a place, there is a checkbox labeled "This place is a building" this box is to be checked only if you have outlined the building itself, if you have included anything that is not a building in the outline such as a parking lot or a grassy area then this box should remain unchecked.
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| − | *'''Abbreviations
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| − | Abbreviations must be avoided in cases such as names of populated places or streets, since Wikimapia is a global site, people halfway around the world may not know what they mean.
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| − | *'''Wikimapia awards and ranking
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| − | On your user profile there is a number called "Rank" where you are listed based on how many points you have and a box on the right called "Awards" where you have "awards" based on how much of a type of place you added or number of overall edits to places. A common problem with these features is that many users try to speed edit (adding places quickly without caring about quality) their way on racing to get these. A good user ignores these features and instead focuses on adding quality work.
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| − | == My avatar ==
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| − | My Avatar is almost always a dragon.
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