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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.
Default generator in R and the Python language starting from version 2.3. Xorshift: 2003 G. Marsaglia [26] It is a very fast sub-type of LFSR generators. Marsaglia also suggested as an improvement the xorwow generator, in which the output of a xorshift generator is added with a Weyl sequence.
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.
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 ...
To a project page: This is a redirect from any page inside or outside of project (Wikipedia: or WP:) space to any page in the project namespace. The above category link leads to a list of redirects from inside project space. Redirects from outside project space are automatically sorted to Category:Redirects to project namespace.
You are, of course, welcome to use Wikipedia content on your own website instead of linking to it, because Wikipedia content uses an open licence (CC-by-SA 3.0). If you wish to do that, our page on reusing Wikipedia content has further advice. If you wish to cite Wikipedia in your work, see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
Random page patrol is a volunteer-led patrol which refers to the process of regularly and frequently checking randomly selected pages through Special:Random. The primary goal of random page patrollers is to ensure random articles conform to Wikipedia's policies on content and style as well as the related guidelines .