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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 is a directory of new articles by topic on English Wikipedia. The pages listed below are "hand-administered" and "bot-assisted" new article pages arranged by topic/ category . Also see the AlexNewArtBot's page for more topics, for which the bot puts results into temporary pages.
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.
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 ...
Articles can be nominated for TFA at the TFA requests page, and articles with a date connection within the next year can be suggested at the TFA pending page. Feel free to bring questions and comments to the TFA talk page , and you can ping all the TFA coordinators by adding " {{ @TFA }} " in a signed comment on any talk page.
The remaining articles must be at least good quality. A featured topic represents Wikipedia's best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other. To become featured, a topic must meet a set of criteria.
However, Wikipedia has quite a few articles. Studying a random selection is a more practical approach to get a grasp on these questions – and compiling this sample is as simple as hitting Special:Random a bunch of times to record what comes up. Random pages tests by various editors can be found in Category:Random pages tests, although the ...
There are 6,646 featured articles out of 6,934,393 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review .