I don't know if anyone's looked into this, I'm afraid. I'd be interested to see what our replication lag on production is. I imagine it's pretty small, and so the impact would be negligible, but...
On 27 June 2014 23:24, stuart yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm designing an experiment and want a random sample of wiki articles. The > 'Random article' seems like a convenient way of generating these with > having to compile a list of the population of articles myself. > > My hunch (based on clicking it lots and very little else), is that 'Random > article' is a uniform sampling of pages in article namespace, excluding > redirects but including disambiguation pages. As implemented on en.wiki > (which is the wiki I'm starting on) it probably has a slight bias against > very recently created pages (due to cross-server synchronization). > > Has anyone looked into this? > > cheers > stuart > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
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