Hello!
Me and May have been experimenting with different ways of finding articles related to the one the user is currently reading. This is a feature we are considering for the mobile app - to make it simple to keep going through to related articles after reading the current one. Mediawiki doesn't offer any such functionality, so we've to 'cheat'.
I have written a quick userscript to test out the different methods of finding 'related' articles. You can enable this on your logged in desktop english wikipedia account by:
1. Going to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js 2. Add this line to it: importScript("User:Yuvipanda/lost.js"); 3. Save the page!
Now, you can go to any wikipedia article and three buttons should show up under the title. If they don't, do a hard refresh (cmd + shift + r in OS X), and they then should. The first button does a category based related/random article, the second one a link based, and a third one (when it appears) a slightly more involved link based related/random article one. We're doing this to iterate quickly (the current stuff took me less than an hour to build) on the various ways to determine which related article to show.
Do take a look, click around a little and get lost, and tell us which method you prefer!
Thanks :)