[Wikipedia-l] 80,000

[Ray Saintonge]

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:

>Imran wrote:
>
>>To avoid giving a skewed view of the pedia we need some sort of
>>classification systems so that the RandomPage function first randomly
>>chooses a topic and then returns a random article from that topic. 
>>
>
>Actually, RandomPage gives an accurate view of wikipedia: we have far more of Ram-Man's articles than anything else, so they turn up more than anything else.  A year ago we had far more Atlas Shrugged articles than anything else, so *those* would always turn up.  The solution?  Write more articles on other topics.
>
At some point in between the same was happening for the "year" pages.  I 
agree to KQ's solution to the problem cased by Ram-Man's good work.
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