[Wikipedia-l] Changes and suggestions (was Re: slight change to the announce-l list)

[Bryan Derksen]

At 12:51 AM 3/30/03 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:52, Anthere wrote:
> > 3. Could it be possible that the "random page" be (per
> > option) chosen with a size threashold ? This would be
> > to avoid all these pages about dates and french little
> > villages that keep on appearing on random pages :-).
>
>Hehe... Traditionally people asked for that to keep out the city pages
>on the English wiki, which wouldn't help at all since those pages are at
>or _above_ the median article size...

While on the subject of the "random page" link, why is it that the page it 
takes me to is apparently not very random? Sometimes when I've got nothing 
specific to do I'll just start clicking random page repeatedly searching 
for an interesting article to tinker with, and I find that I start visiting 
the same small set of pages over and over again. Also, it seems that an 
unusually large number of these random pages are ones which have been just 
recently edited, though I haven't done a rigorous count of this. Is there 
some sort of non-random algorithm being used?