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Wikipedian as of February 18, 2006, with 290 contributions as of July 06 2006.

Goals

My goals as an editor of wikipedia are

To increase the amount of available knowledge

• Knowledge is an important thing to people, and adding to it is a great task to accomplish.
• Also it may help a person who needs certain information.
• Wikipedia is a free source of knowledge and deserves to be as good a possible; I hope to make it better.

To contribute to the comunity

• Wikipedia is a community effort, that needs everyones collaboration to succeed.
• Also, it is more than just text; it is the effort of people from every part of the world.
• Many people believe that Wikipedia is "no good", and I'll try to change their minds by writing higher quality articles.

and to learn in the process

• As I progress and grow I will aquire more knowledge naturally.
• And Perhapse, I will learn more about myself along the way.

Featured Article

Skeletal diagram of Mimodactylus

Mimodactylus is a genus of istiodactyliform pterosaur that lived in what is now Lebanon during the Late Cretaceous, 95 million years ago. The only known specimen was discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of Hjoula. The owner of the quarry allowed the specimen to be prepared by researchers, and it was donated to the MIM Museum in Beirut. In 2019, the researchers named the new genus and species Mimodactylus libanensis; referring to the MIM Museum, with the Greek word daktylos for 'digit', and the specific name refers to Lebanon. The well-preserved holotype specimen is the first complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent (which consisted of the then joined Arabian Peninsula and Africa), and the third pterosaur fossil known from Lebanon. The marine deposits of Hjoula are late Cenomanian in age and are well-known for fish fossils. The holotype specimen is comparatively small, with a wingspan of 1.32 metres (4.3 ft), and was probably young. (Full article...)

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• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" — Albert Einstein
• "Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes" — George Santayana
• "There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance" — Plato
• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" — Socrates
• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free" — Aristotle
• "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" — Archimedes
• "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases" — George Orwell
• "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" — Isaac Newton
• "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind" — Gandhi

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