On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
What does Meow, Linky, Closer mean?

'Meow' is Category based - it picks an article with the following process:

1. Pick a non-hidden category of the current page at random
2. Pick an article in that category at random
3. Go to that picked article

'Linky' is simpler:

1. Pick a random outgoing wikilink of the current page
2. Go to that picked wikilink

'Closer' is slighlty more complex, and works only when you have used 'Linky' at least once:

1. Make an intersection of all links that were present both in *this* article and the previous article
2. Pick a link out of the intersection at random
3. Go to that link.

Which one do you think gives you the best 'related to the current article, but slightly random' results? 

 
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