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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 ).
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
They are used by editors as examples for writing other articles. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed as featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Many featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of ...
Add a notice to Wikipedia:Goings-on using [[Wikipedia:Featured topics/ExampleTopicName|ExampleTopicName]] Add the topic to the random topic generator at Wikipedia:Featured content/Topics and update the count. Update the {{ArticleHistory}} template on the talk pages of all articles in the topic. Remember to add both the action#= stats and the ...