User:Raul654

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 assfuckers degree in Computer Engineering. I'm working under Guang Gao in CAPSL, as a small worker bee for the Cyclops64 project. Our group has been subcontracted by IBM to do hardware verification testing and system software development. I'm working concurrently on my PhD thesis and my master's thesis. My master's thesis is on rewriting the NAS Conjugate gradient benchmark to run efficiently on several exotic computer systems, including Cyclops64, the Cray XD1, and the Cray MTA-2. My PhD thesis is MemWatcher, a memory watching component that sits between the processor and the cache, and allows simplified debugging of parallel programs on Uniform Memory Access architectures.

I also have some background in biomedical engineering, and military history (particularly 20th century) is an interest of mine.

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, an oversighter, checkuserer, and arbitrator emeritus. 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...

Handy links

• Terminate a user, Unblock a user (Blocklist, Log)
• User rights management - Promote a user, Rename a user, Make a bot (Admins)
• Check a user
• External link finder
• Subpages Find subpages
• Wikipedia:Sound/list
• Random featured article

Amusements, fun and games

My box 'O bling

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Coming to theatres soon: Wikipedia, the Movie

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"The first to reason by analogy was the devil." - Shiite Proverb.

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Quote challenge:

I occasionally post an obscure quote for other Wikipedians to try and identify. Past challenges

Current challenge: None

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My proof that 0 = -1 (useful for learning Wiki-latex math markup)

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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)

[ NB: We've had that page since 5 November 2004. ]

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<Flood_Of_SYNACKS> Flood_Of_SYNs - NOW WE END THIS

<Flood_Of_SYNACKS> LET THIS BE OUR FINAL BATTLE

<Flood_Of_SYNACKS> (queue the mortal combat theme)

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