[Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 14:23:19 UTC 2011


On 18 October 2011 15:17, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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) ;)


en:wp was like that in 2004 - of the 200k articles, about 30k were
Rambot articles about US towns. Anyone fond of Special:Random got a
lot of them ...


- d.




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