[Wikipedia-l] Article def for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}

Magnus Manske magnus.manske at epost.de
Thu Sep 19 14:18:50 UTC 2002


Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:

>>We could then have both "Random article" and "Random entry".
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>
>That sounds better to me... I use the random button as a means of
>finding double redirects, year templates without any content, pathetic
>stubs, spelling mistakes that need correcting etc. If all of these were
>cut out, its usefulness to me would be slashed. When I come to a lengthy
>page with the random button I just move on, because I assume that the
>article doesn't need my sort of work on it anymore. 
>
I am all for keeping the stubs in the "random article", or for creating 
a second function (or maybe make that a user preference...). Just be 
advised that you can find stubs with the "short pages" special page, and 
double redirects with a database query you can find on 
"wikipedia:Database queries".





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