User:Kentsmith9/Wazeume

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Kentsmith9's Wazeume / Wazume

Timeline

• Began using = April 23, 2012

• Joined as Cartouche was being replaced by the original WME

• Rank 2
• Rank 3 / Area Manager - Bay Area, California =
• Rank 3
• Rank 4
• Rank 5 / 600K edits = April 2013
• Global Champ = < October 2013 (part of the inaugural team)

Roles

• Global Champ
• Wazeopedia/Wiki Expert Editor
• Wazeopedia Admin
• Waze for Cities representative
• Forum admin (prior)
• NanoRep admin (prior)
• Area Manager (originally Bay Area California)
• IOS Beta tester
• Beta Routing Server tester
• Beta WME tester

Meetups

Attended 11 meetups since 2012 as of August 2022

Global Champ Meetup

• 2013 Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2015 Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2019 Tel Aviv, Israel

NA Mega Meetup

From 2018 forward, this replaced the separate NA Meetups and Beta Meetups

• 2018-Mar-3, SF, CA
• 2019-Feb 9-10, Universal City, CA

NA Regional

• 2012 Sunnyvale, CA
• 2013-Mar (<12), SF, CA
• 2014-Apr 12, Las Vegas, NV
• 2017-Feb 19, San Diego, CA

NA Beta Meetup

• 2016-May 20-21, SF, CA

NWR Meetup

• 2018-May 5, Boise, ID

App projects

HOV

• Beta tester with dozens of drivable HOV lanes
• Provided direct feedback to Waze dev team on California HOV lanes
• Mapped a significant portion of the Bay Area HOV lanes

Toll prices

• The SF Bay Area is home to 7 toll bridges
• Edited and tested the new toll mapping across all of them

Mapping projects

Overall stats

• Began editing = May 12, 2012
• As of August 13, 2022

• Total map edits = 1,150,648
• Update Requests closed = 5559
• Segments edited = 126,623
• Places edited = 2,213
• Places reviewed = 238
• Time-based restrictions = 1,190
• Map Problems closed = 2,240
• House numbers added = 208
• Paved roads = 37.76 miles

California

Functional Classification

• Mapped the FC for hundreds of grid squares covering most of North and Central California

Highway 5 Exit numbers

• Added all the yet-to-be-installed exit numbers for Interstate 5 across California
• Roughly 300+ (x2 for North and South exits) exit ramps updated with the newly assigned numbers

Speed limits

• Focused on Bay Area speed limit updates

Programs

Mentoring

• Coordinated with Orbit on the original definitions of the program

EVOC

• Oroville Dam Failure (Feb 2017) - Mapped evac centers and road closures

Waze for Cities / Connected Citizens

• San Francisco, CA - Traffic unit
• Fremont, CA - Traffic unit
• Pleasanton, CA - Police
• Livermore, CA - Police
• Los Gatos, CA - City Engineering
• Los Altos Hills, CA - City Engineering
• Alameda, CA - City Engineering
• Alameda County, CA - City Engineering
• Yosemite, CA - Traffic unit
• Boise, ID - Traffic unit

Documentation

Forum

Overall stats

• First post =
• Total posts = 5,699

Major contributions

• Created the forum guidelines

NanoRep

• This was an early online help system for editors and users before the Wiki gained traction
• Although it was administered by Waze staff, I was given admin rights to add and maintain the content with them
• It was shut down after the Wiki gained significant community support

All Wikis

Overall stats

• First post = June 16, 2012 on At-grade connectors
• As of August 13, 2022

• Total saves = 9,860
• Total edits = unknown; some saves can be one character different while others can include hundreds of changes at one time.
• Pages still holding my last edit = 2,518
• New pages created = 2,435; these are a combination of the main namespace, redirects, templates, categories, users, etc.
• New pages still holding my last edit = 1,341 (55% of all my created pages)
• New Template pages = 332 (46% of all templates)
• Image uploads = 266

Major projects

Wazeopedia implementation 2015

• Submitted roughly 20 bug reports.
• Teamed up with PesachZ to prepare the then current Wiki for the transition.
• Created and added templates to pages that were staying in the US, dropping from the US, or needing modifications.

Wazeopedia Revamp 2022

• In process now.
• As of August 13, 2022

• Submitted 35 bugs

Infrastructure templates

• Templates are the lifeblood of a Wiki.
• Wikipedia has hundreds of thousands of infrastructure/editor templates.
• Nearly every template we use today had to be imported from Wikipedia manually.
• The documentation for the templates are moved separately for larger scale templates.
• After import they need to be cleared of any calls to non-existent templates or pages.
• Examples: {{About}}, {{For}}, {{Further}}, {{Hatnote}},

State template pages

(much to add here)

AM template suite

• {{AM}} - Template system for unified display of Area Manager tables on state pages.
• Part of the State template system.
• Includes all editor levels.
• Displays editor name, rank, private message link, rank level icon, the area managed, and a open text comment field.
• Provides the option to display multiple badges with the editor name.
• Breaks up table to separate country, state and area managers.
• Automatically include the Regional Coordinators and Assistant Regional Coordinator(s) from the {{RC}} template system.

Rank template suite

• Built the original {{Rank}} template suite to enable maintenance of the restriction element throughout the Wiki.
• Rebuilt {{Rank}} template into a suite to resolve multiple issues. (Forum discussion).
• Resolved problem with synchronizing three different data sources/tables when updates were required.

Other major templates

• {{AddCode}} - Enables Wiki page editors to insert a message box as a placeholder in their code development to remind them to come back to add that code when they get more time. Prevents forgotten code elements when working on complex pages.

• {{AlphaIndexStart}} / {{AlphaIndexEnd}} - To create a horizontal index of alphabetic initial letters for the headers on a page.
• {{Anchor}} - Creates a hyperlink target anywhere on the page to enable a link from another page to lead a user directly to that target spot on the target page.
• {{As of}}} - automatically creates a link to a category for tracking potentially dated statements that can easily be reviewed over time.
• {{ForumLink}} - Unified display of links to subforums for use on any page, especially when wanting community feedback.

Other Wiki projects

• Category structures - Defined the current category structure for the entire Wiki
• Created Wiki and forum etiquette (Waze_etiquette, Forum)
• Created Wiki style guide (Help:Wiki_editing, Forum)
• Assisted GizmoGuy411 and PesachZ with the automated Glossary project. Forum