How about keeping the default behavior and adding an optional URL param.
Vis a vis:
wiki/index.php?title=Special:Random&category=Awesome_Stuff
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 3/21/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
demute wrote:
It would be really nice if wikipedias
Special:random-function could take
arguments, making it possible to get a random article from
user-specified
categories.
A suggestion to do this is as follows. When a user click on the "random
article" link the random article is loaded with a comment on the top of
the
page saying something like "you requested a
random article. click here
to
view options" and so the the user can mark
which categories the article
should come from. The settings can either be stored in a cookie or they
can
be sent in the URI.
Everyone would love this feature!
I would perhaps find it useful sometimes, but I doubt I would love it as
described. I have [[Special:Random]] set as my browser's homepage and
having a pastel-shaded banner appear at the top of the page every time
ala [[Clippy]] would become quite annoying.
I'd suggest leaving the default behavior of [[Special:Random]] alone and
make this behavior a new option. It might make a good addition to the
search page.
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l