https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931
--- Comment #16 from Steve Sperandeo <[email protected]> 2011-09-29 15:25:12 UTC --- 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
