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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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
Using the random article function on Wikipedia, 1003 articles were selected during December 2015. Disambiguation pages and lists were not included in the sample. Data was gathered on the date of the first edit and November 2015 page views. Before any data could be gathered one article was deleted at AfD and another was merged.