On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Thomas Luft wrote: The random page on the English one isn't random either. You will regularly get the same page again and again if you try a few times.
Grrr.... looks like the random indices are all off again; somehow MySQL's rand() function is biasing high the way we've been using it, and there are _very_ few articles set with lower indexes (<0.25), so those few get pulled up way too often. I've just told it to redo all the random indexes on the german wiki in a lump; I'll reset them on the English wiki later tonight when traffic is lower.
I've also gone ahead and replaced the random seed generator in the wiki and changed Special:Random to use its own random number instead of asking for one from MySQL. I don't trust MySQL anymore. :) And I took out the reset-index-on-load, which was probably trouble.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)