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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 ).
Enhanced Random Article is a script that adds a link above the "Random Article" link called "Enhanced Random Article".This script provides similar functionality to the built-in "Random Article" link, but there are three extra options, documented below.
On Wikipedia, access keys allow you to do a lot more—protect a page, show page history, publish your changes, show preview text, and so on. See the next section for the full list. Most web browsers require holding down one or two modifier keys to use an access key.
Each entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things. In this list, a star indicates a featured article. A plus indicates a good article.
In the Wikipedia database, each page is assigned a "random index", which is a random floating point number uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive). The "random article" feature (Special:Random) chooses a random double-precision floating-point number , and returns the next article whose random index is greater than the ...
Adds a "Random redirect" link below the "Random article" link. N/A: N/A: SNA : A new article or draft can be started easily from navigation bar. N/A: N/A: Wikimap : Adds links to other wikis in your navigation bar. Also is smart and doesn't show the link for the current wiki. N/A: N/A
Support - The Wikipedia:Random page contents clearly are intended to help use Wikipedia or its software (look at how many times forms of the word "use" is used on the page). Wikipedia:Random certainly is not about Wikipedia as the page contains nothing "about" Wikipedia. It is a general information page to help use Wikipedia.
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.