At 12:51 AM 3/30/03 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:52, Anthere wrote:
- Could it be possible that the "random page" be (per
option) chosen with a size threashold ? This would be to avoid all these pages about dates and french little villages that keep on appearing on random pages :-).
Hehe... Traditionally people asked for that to keep out the city pages on the English wiki, which wouldn't help at all since those pages are at or _above_ the median article size...
While on the subject of the "random page" link, why is it that the page it takes me to is apparently not very random? Sometimes when I've got nothing specific to do I'll just start clicking random page repeatedly searching for an interesting article to tinker with, and I find that I start visiting the same small set of pages over and over again. Also, it seems that an unusually large number of these random pages are ones which have been just recently edited, though I haven't done a rigorous count of this. Is there some sort of non-random algorithm being used?