Paul Ebermann wrote:
"Gareth Owen" skribis:
The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com writes:
How do they clutter the "worthwhile" entries? Wikipedia is not paper.
RandomPages
I just tested this ...
I twenty times klicked on "Random page", and got
- 3 times these "Village pages"
- 3 times year-pages (two of them 507)
- 14 times other articles (but not all of them being "worthwile" articles IMHO).
Is this a great problem?
In itself, no it's not. I did a random page search myself just now and here are my results. I didn't happen to get any year pages this time around, but six out of my twenty clicks took me to a rambot town and the last four of those were in a row directly after each other. One year entry, or one town, or one country demographics entry (etc) by itself isn't a problem, but when you click again and get another one, and again etc, it might make people think that that's all we have in the wikipedia. I could see it dissuading people from trying to use the wikipedia, because they might think that their kind of information wasn't wanted or needed, or that the wikipedia just doesn't have what they're looking for when it probably does.
MY RESULTS
1) Whippet - tiny stub
2) Master station - straightforward definition, drawn from Federal Standard 1037C
3) Topological group - lengthy mathematical article
4) Lexington, Missouri - Rambot entry
5) Worcester Cathedral - tiny stub
6) F-14 Tomcat - lengthy article, with written information and a long list of stats
7) Triboluminescence - stub, basically a definition
8) Antony and Cleopatra - stub on the Shakespeare play
9) Stotts City, Missouri - Rambot entry
10) History of Swaziland - CIA factbook entry, very stubbish
11) Arecales - microstub (family listing)
12) Ripe - disambiguation page, no actual info
13) Der er et yndigt land - (Danish national anthem) lyrics and English translation
14) Cow tipping - short article on an urban legend
15) Hub - definition
16) Feyenoord Rotterdam - short article on the Dutch football team
17) Cleveland, Illinois - rambot entry
18) Marion Heights, Pennsylvania - rambot entry
19) Spring Valley, Ohio - rambot entry
20) New Richmond, Wisconsin - rambot AGAIN