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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 function can be used there as a substitute for Special:Random, so it can be used to show "random books" in Wikibooks, instead of random pages. [1] Special:Search: for searching Wikipedia. See Help:Searching. Special:TemplateSandbox; Special:Upload (Upload file): upload a file to the wiki. Special:VipsTest (VIPS scaling test page)
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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 selected random number. Some articles will have a larger gap before them, in the random index space, and so will be more likely to be selected.
Random article; About Wikipedia ... For information on special words, see Help:Magic words: Wikitext cheatsheet: Works anywhere in the text Description You type ...
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 .
If the page is serving as a portal for users to be able to browse random pages in other namespaces, then it is intended to help use Wikipedia or its software and is not about Wikipedia. The Wikipedia:Random page originally was a redirect to Special:Random and then was changed to a redirect to Help:Special page, until an annomous user change the ...
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.