https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46918
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Bug ID: 46918
Summary: Present list of random articles from one or more
categories
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Extensions requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #44278 +++
In short: implement the feature
https://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php
Rationale: self-evident. Many wikis use this tool or equivalents as integral
part of their workflow (or they did when Toolserver was more stable), see some
examples at https://www.mediawiki.org/?oldid=632517
Implementation: probably a system message like [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]; each
bullet point would be a kind of task, with a title defined either on the page
itself or by another system message, its sub-bullets would be category names;
the special page picks N random pages from the defined categories for each kind
of task and regenerates on refresh.
Open questions: whether to allow recursion (obviously preferred) or not;
caching.
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The GettingStarted extension apparently has some code that can be recycled for
this:
(From bug 44278 comment #6)
> I'd still say looking at
> CategoryRoulette , RedisCategorySync, et al. is the closest thing to a robust
> system for generating random tasks from categories.
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