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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
Shovel Knight Showdown is a 2019 fighting video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. It is an add-on to the platform game Shovel Knight. Players battle using one fighter among twenty characters, each with various movesets and fighting styles. Modes include "Treasure Clash", to collect the most gems, and a "free for all" battle to death. In story mode, a single player battles against AI-controlled opponents across several stages before facing a boss. Completing this mode with each fighter allows the player to unlock new stages and characters. Yacht Club Games envisioned Showdown as a small minigame similar to modes in Mega Man 7 (1995) and Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988). The developers gradually built a more expansive title which they compared to a party game. Showdown was released for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Wii U on December 10, 2019. It received average reviews on release, with praise towards its characters and multiplayer gameplay, but many reviewers criticized the single-player mode for its difficulty balancing. (Full article...)
In the news
- Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) flees to Russia.
- Notre-Dame de Paris reopens following reconstruction after the 2019 fire.
- The first round of the Romanian presidential election is annulled by the Constitutional Court following allegations of Russian electoral interference.
- The French government, led by Michel Barnier, collapses following a vote of no confidence by the National Assembly.
Selected anniversaries
December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
- 1848 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte won France's first presidential election, and was elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic.
- 1901 – On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.
- 1970 – Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.
- 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
- Stede Bonnet (d. 1718)
- María Bibiana Benítez (b. 1783)
- Diane Schuur (b. 1953)
- Lalji Singh (d. 2017)
Select quotes
- "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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