jayvdb added a comment.

That might be it, given random acts quite differently.

Also, as the failures are always (so far..) on test.wikidata, I am wondering if that might be a significant part of the problem. It has a low page count, from which to randomly select pages from. https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Statistics But not low enough that random should fail regularly, so maybe that isnt part of the problem.

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