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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.
Citation Hunt: A tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. Citer: Converts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL into a citation and shortened footnote. It also can generate citations for certain major news websites (e.g., The New York Times) and the Wayback Machine.
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
The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere. The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and numbers. You can ...
Before creating a draft article, you can practice by first editing in Wikipedia's community sandbox your personal sandbox. It's a great way to try out editing without affecting live articles. If you need some help along the way, see our guide to your first article
For a guided process to create an article (and for which these technical instructions will not be needed), see the article wizard and Wikipedia:Articles for creation, where a proposed article will first be created as a draft and then submitted for review before possible "publication" by a move to the article mainspace.
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Category 1 Category from which page will be selected Page name optional Namespace ns no description Unknown optional type type no description Unknown optional action action no description Unknown optional text text no description Unknown optional Examples {{Random page in category}} would produce on ...