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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

  • 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

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

State template pages

(much to add here)

Wazeopedia 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 2022

  • As of August 13, 2022
  • Submitted 35 bugs

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.

Others

  • 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