2011/10/18 WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com:
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.
There is actually a nice Toolserver tool that can do this, as well as provide random articles filtered by any other category: http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php
The following yields a random Good article on the English Wikipedia: http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=en&family=wikipedi...
(providing the link to this tool at the risk of enabling teh censorshipz by dark and powerful outside organizations who might abuse it to restrict Wikipedia's own unfiltered, free speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random according to their own world views ;)
Regards, HaeB