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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 ).
Make a note of your number and stick to it - ok let's call it N. 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 ...
Piped links are acceptable in certain circumstances, such as when a word may have many ambiguities, like [[Queen (band)|Queen]]. Clearly, as the game develops, one gets a pretty long list! If you're stuck for ideas, link to the last word in the list and add the first link that appears on that page as the next link.
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.
The settings are explained in greater detail below. After changing the settings, bypass your browser's cache or wait a while to see your changes take effect. patterns The pattern that an article's title must match. It is case-sensitive. If more than one pattern is provided, then an article only needs to match one of the patterns.
Supports playing against a friend or a random opponent. Wikipedia Speedrun – Game with the goal to navigate from a starting Wikipedia article to another one, in the least amount of clicks and time; Wikipedia Speedruns – Wikipedia Speedruns enable you to select starting and ending articles in all the languages supported by Wikipedia.
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. It's a great way to try out editing without affecting live articles.
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. Redirects from outside project space are automatically sorted to Category:Redirects to project namespace.