On 2013-08-01 6:21 PM, "Antoine Musso" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 01/08/13 21:04, Yuvi Panda a écrit : > > Bug 25931[1], "Implement efficient way to select random page from > > specified category on Wikimedia wikis" has just been marked as > > resolved, thanks to this patch[2] from Bawolff that Brion merged. > > > > Yay! :) > > > > [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931 > > [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71997/ > > It is always a pleasure to find old bugs being fixed. Thank you! > > > For those wondering about randomly selecting an article, I invite you to > have a look at a 2007 post by Brion on his blog: > > https://brionv.com/log/2007/11/22/random-tests/ > > You will learn why we have (had?) some articles showing up more often > when using RandomPage :-] > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
It should be noted that the method used in the patch in question is significantly less random than random page. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
