Bug 25931[1], "Implement efficient way to select random page from specified category on Wikimedia wikis" has just been marked as resolved, thanks to this patch[2] from Bawolff that Brion merged.
Yay! :)
[1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71997/
Le 01/08/13 21:04, Yuvi Panda a écrit :
Bug 25931[1], "Implement efficient way to select random page from specified category on Wikimedia wikis" has just been marked as resolved, thanks to this patch[2] from Bawolff that Brion merged.
Yay! :)
It is always a pleasure to find old bugs being fixed. Thank you!
For those wondering about randomly selecting an article, I invite you to have a look at a 2007 post by Brion on his blog:
https://brionv.com/log/2007/11/22/random-tests/
You will learn why we have (had?) some articles showing up more often when using RandomPage :-]
On 2013-08-01 6:21 PM, "Antoine Musso" hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 01/08/13 21:04, Yuvi Panda a écrit :
Bug 25931[1], "Implement efficient way to select random page from specified category on Wikimedia wikis" has just been marked as resolved, thanks to this patch[2] from Bawolff that Brion merged.
Yay! :)
It is always a pleasure to find old bugs being fixed. Thank you!
For those wondering about randomly selecting an article, I invite you to have a look at a 2007 post by Brion on his blog:
https://brionv.com/log/2007/11/22/random-tests/
You will learn why we have (had?) some articles showing up more often when using RandomPage :-]
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
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It should be noted that the method used in the patch in question is significantly less random than random page.
-bawolff
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