Brion Vibber wrote:
From all articles that meet the above criteria, with one exception: on en.wikipedia.org the random selection has been hacked not to return pages last edited by the accounts Ram-Man or Rambot. This is a crude (and in my view unfortunate) hack to appease complaints that the random page function returned articles on cities and towns in the US too often.
Did you do this by hacking the code (adding to the SQL query) or the DB (setting the relevant cur_random fields to 0)? What you said sounded like the former, but personally I think the latter makes more sense (it would automatically heal over time as articles are edited by other people and are assigned a cur_random that way).
Timwi