I'm Mark Pellegrini, a PhD candidate in Electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware. CAPSL, my research group, does work on the Cyclops64 project.

I also have some education in biomedical engineering. Military history (particularly 20th century) is an interest of mine.

Me and Wikipedia

I've been a Wikipedian 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 make 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.

I've written over 500 articles and uploaded over 1500 pictures. I'm a generalist, in that I contribute all over Wikipedia.

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, Range block checker, request account creation, Range block calculator)
• User rights management - Promote a user, Rename a user, Make a bot (Admins)
• Check a user
• External link finder
• Abuse filters, 205, 206
• Find subpages
• Wikipedia:Sound/list
• Random featured article
• Page hit counter
• Coming to theatres soon: Wikipedia, the Movie
• Commons upload query, Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count (SQL query)
• Vernor Vinge's Mediawiki feature request
• Alt codes for Windows keyboards

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Q: If Wikipedia were a person, what kind of personality would he have? - User:Raul654

A: The heart of a bureaucrat, the conscience of a sociopath, the self-preservation of a tokkōtai, and the consistency of a schizophrenic. - O^O