User:Raul654

Bio

Hello! My name is Mark Pellegrini. I'm a PhD candidate in Electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, whence I also got my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. I'm working under Guang Gao in CAPSL, as a small worker bee for the Cyclops64 project - a project to produce (what we hope will be) the world's fastest computer. Our group has been subcontracted by IBM to do hardware verification testing and system software development. My current research project is rewriting the NAS Conjugate gradient benchmark to run effeciently on Cyclops64.

I also have some background in biomedical engineering, and military history (particularly 20th century) is one of my interests.

I am the Fieldmarshal (ENTJ)

Me and Wikipedia

My current Wikistress level. I'm the one who invented this little meme, which seems to have spread to almost every other major project

I've been on Wikipedia a long time (since August 2003). I'm an administrator, a bureaucrat, and an arbitrator. I'm the "Featured Article Director", meaning that I schedule the featured articles that you see on the main page every day (as well as promoting featured articles and in general helping to making the whole process go smoothly.) I'm also on the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications committee, and I'm a member of the ' Wikimedia Press Team' (meaning I help answer the many emails Wikipedia gets).

I've been to quite a few Wikipedia meetups, and I've met a fair number of other Wikipedians. They're good people.

I've written a lot of articles - over 400, at last count. I've also taken a fair number of pictures and requested a few articles. I'm a generalist, in that I contribute all over wikipedia. I've written articles in many different fields, including featured articles in history, science, and literature. I think, at one point or another, I've done every task there is to do on Wikipedia, from fixing double redirects and cut-and-paste page moves to presenting a case before the arbcom and writing custom software for Wikipedia (an upload bot).

After you've been here a while, you start to notice certain trends. I've started writing them down at Raul's laws of Wikipedia, which also includes a few discovered by others.

Why this username? Long, boring story...

Coming to theatres soon: Wikipedia, the Movie

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Blessed are those who know how to think for themselves, truth will speak to them. -- Unknown

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Hell, you haven't even mentioned Wikipedia's bias against alternative timelines! Can you imagine: as important a topic as, say, United States under Adolf Hitler, and we still don't have an article! zafiroblue05 | Talk 02:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Must...resist...temptation... --Kinst 02:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars

I hereby bestow Raul654 the photographer's barnstar for his work at Featured pictures and FPC
- Ravedave

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar for Raul654 on the occasion of our 1000th Featured Article. Truly tireless work! Marskell 16:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)