https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931
--- Comment #18 from [email protected] 2011-11-24 04:19:09 UTC --- Steve et all, I am now using stumbleupon to do this. It works pretty good except you can't just search a category off the top of your head, stumbleupon will "stumble" through your pre-defined interests on wikipedia. Asides from that it works ok. Below is the link on how to do it. http://getsatisfaction.com/stumbleupon/topics/why_cant_i_specifically_stumble_wikipedia_with_my_chrome_plugin (In reply to comment #16) > While I'm not the original requester, I did post a duplicate bug (Bug 29373). > > I can assure you such a feature wouldn't be just eyecandy or a "would be nice" > feature. It would be a serious learning tool. > > Most people use wikipedia as a reference tool, linked from google's results. > However, there are cases when you don't want to use it as a book, but a study > guide. For example, when someone is new to a field, they'll want to immerse > themselves in the subject and learn as much vocabulary about the subject as > possible. Even people who have been out of the subject for a while would > benefit from brushing up from time to time. > > I personally use the Random Article feature every day. I have a link on my > bookmarks toolbar in chrome that I click to learn about random things to > spread > my breadth of knowledge. However, most of the articles that I land on are > biographies of athletes, which is totally useless to me. > > I've been a computer scientist for about 8 years now. And I can say with > certainty, that if I had a "Random Computer Science Article" button on > toolbar, > I'd use it every day too. Just look at how huge the subject is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science > > I'm sure other people would like to immerse themselves in a subject, like > Biology, Finance or some other large field. > > I think that was the reasoning for this request. > > Hope that helps! > > PS. Thanks for working on wikimedia and wikipedia. It's really appreciated by > so many people. Cheers! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
