Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:00:26 +0100 From: Fae fae@wikimedia.org.uk Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CAHRYMYVZGEqXtxmW78+A71os9DP12HMquAsKVWfQnnVsYYnOrg@mail.gmail.com
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Sorry to take a tangential point from Tom's email, but is the random article tool truly random or does it direct to only stable articles or some other sub-set of article space?
Thanks Fae
Hi Fae, I don't know about other projects, but on EN wki random article means just that. There have been a number of proposals to skew things and filter certain things out, but these have foundered on the twin concerns that including everything in Random articles best serves those who want to intersperse some random reading with things that they can easily improve, and that it would be dishonest to tell someone that these were random articles when actually we'd filtered out stubs or the unreferenced.
There may well be demand for "random Good Article" as an additional option, but that would be an extra not something we could describe as random article.
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