On 6/22/07, brion@svn.wikimedia.org brion@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
Revision: 23220 Author: brion Date: 2007-06-22 14:25:23 +0000 (Fri, 22 Jun 2007)
Log Message:
Revert r23197 -- while well-meaning, this would severely overrepresent minor content namespaces by selecting the namespaces with equal probability. A better solution would be to modify the RandomPage class to allow passing pages of multiple namespaces, and giving it the complete list of content namespaces; then the selection would be properly proportional.
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True -- my bad :). I was getting irritated by Randompage only returning one or two pages in the mainspace on my wiki, rather than pulling from the several other pages in other content namespaces, so did this as a quick "fix". It would be quite nice to have Randompage select a random content page, rather than just a random page in the mainspace, however, so I'll see about implementing a more elegant and correct solution later on. Thanks for catching that, Brion; I'll try to refrain from committing at 2am from now on =D.
Daniel Cannon wrote:
It would be quite nice to have Randompage select a random content page, rather than just a random page in the mainspace, however, so I'll see about implementing a more elegant and correct solution later on.
Is the existing $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault not good enough?
Mike
On 6/22/07, Michael Daly michaeldaly@kayakwiki.org wrote:
Daniel Cannon wrote:
It would be quite nice to have Randompage select a random content page, rather than just a random page in the mainspace, however, so I'll
see
about implementing a more elegant and correct solution later on.
Is the existing $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault not good enough?
SpecialRandompage doesn't do anything with $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedByDefault. I'm talking about rewriting it to use $wgContentNamespaces instead of just NS_MAIN.
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