[Mediawiki-l] Embed Special:Random

[Helmut Schneider]

Michael Schmarck
<michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de> wrote:
> Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> <zehetner at molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> I would like to display a random page on the Main Page. I tried to use
>>>> {{Special:Random}} and {{Special:Randompage}} which only displays the
>>>> link  to Special:Random[page] but not a page itself.
>>>> Is it possible to embed Special:Random at all?
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Embed_page#Embedded_Special_Pages
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately the page is empty. I tried
>
> What page is empty?

According to the link above I changed includes/SpecialPage.php:

/* 'Randompage' => array( 'SpecialPage', 'Randompage' ), */
'Randompage' => array( 'IncludableSpecialPage', 'Randompage' ),

Within my mediawiki distribution I created a page called 'Test' with the 
following content:

{{Special:Randompage}}Randompage
{{Special:RandomPage}}RandomPage
{{Special:Random}}Random

After saving the page the only content I can see is:

Randompage
RandomPage
Random

For further testing I made another change to includes/SpecialPage.php:

/* 'Imagelist' => array( 'SpecialPage', 'Imagelist' ), */
'Imagelist' => array( 'IncludableSpecialPage', 'Imagelist' ),

Again I created a test page with the following content:

{{Special:Imagelist}}

The image map appears, so I assume that I changed SpecialPage.php correctly. 
What works for Special:Imagelist does not for Special:Random.

Apologies if (obviously) my english was not good enough to describe the 
actual situation. I hope this posting clears out the problem.

Any help is still appreciated.

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