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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox , Edge , and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
This template creates a link to a random article from a specified category and its subcategories. The tool used in the background for this comes from User:Erwin . Kopiervorlage
Choose a starting page, either a favourite article or something from the Random page link. Now read the article (or just skim read) until you reach the Nth link. Only count links in the body text of the article - that is, ignore any backward-redirect links or anything in a disambiguation section unless the whole article is only a disambiguation ...
The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the community of Wikipedians, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find a fun and simple game to play.
Supports playing against a friend or a random opponent. Wikipedia Speedrun – Game with the goal to navigate from a starting Wikipedia article to another one, in the least amount of clicks and time; Wikipedia Speedruns – Wikipedia Speedruns enable you to select starting and ending articles in all the languages supported by Wikipedia.
If more than one pattern is provided, then an article only needs to match one of the patterns. Options: This can be a string, such as 'List' which would match article titles that contain "List"; or an array, such as ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'] which would require that an article's title contain a vowel.
Add the topic to the random topic generator at Wikipedia:Featured content/Topics and update the count. Update the {{ ArticleHistory }} template on the talk pages of all articles in the topic. Remember to add both the action#= stats and the ftname= stats, and for the main article, ftmain=yes.
Random article patrol is a chance to appreciate how good (and how lacking) Wikipedia is. It can be a soothing experience, especially after tedious maintenance tasks. As a bonus, it can be a great training tool to sharpen your knowledge if you're a trivia buff or are scheduled to appear on Jeopardy! Just go to random pages and fix what you can.