[Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 14:17:57 UTC 2011


Never tryed in en.wiki, but in PT.wiki we even have a 15 radom articles
selection to see the quality of pt.wiki articles in a small scale.

He did it 5 times from 2005 to 2008, and I never saw a sex article on it. In
fact we used to joke that pt.wiki is made only by French villages and
asteroids (because EVERYONE get one of them in their 15 articles) ;)

You people can see it all here:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Indech/15_artigos_aleat%C3%B3rios
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On 18 October 2011 15:02, Lodewijk <lodewijk em effeietsanders.org> wrote:

> I would guess that the odds of arriving at such article are so low, that it
> would not be worth the huge discussion it would definitely result into, to
> make this change because there is barely any improvement. Have we ever
> received complaints from people who arrived at such articles after pressing
> the random article button?
>
> Best,
> lodewijk
>
> No dia 18 de Outubro de 2011 16:00, Fae <fae em wikimedia.org.uk> escreveu:
>
> > Rather than filtering the unreferenced, I had in mind articles such as
> > [[Human penis]] and [[Vagina]] where the lead may be NSFW (Tom's main
> > thrust) or unstable articles that are currently locked due to
> > edit-warring, blatant lobbying or similar.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fae
> >
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