Wikipedia:Random
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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to view a random article.
Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Edge and Chrome Alt+X, in Firefox Alt-Shift+X).
To create a link to a random page in a different namespace, use [[Special:Random/Namespace]]. For example, Special:Random/Talk will take you to a random article's talk page. Selecting a random page from two or more namespaces is also possible by separating the namespaces with commas. Special:Random/Wikipedia,Talk goes to either an article's talk page or a project page. This also works with the article namespace as in Special:Random/Wikipedia,.
| Article | Talk |
| User | Talk |
| Wikipedia | Talk |
| File | Talk |
| MediaWiki | Talk |
| Template | Talk |
| Help | Talk |
| Category | Talk |
| Portal | Talk |
| Draft | Talk |
| TimedText | Talk |
| Module | Talk |
| Main | Talk |
| User | Talk |
| Wikipedia | Talk |
| File | Talk |
| MediaWiki | Talk |
| Template | Talk |
| Help | Talk |
| Category | Talk |
| Portal | Talk |
| Draft | Talk |
| TimedText | Talk |
| Module | Talk |
If you are wondering if the "random article" feature is really random, read the answer here.
See also
- Wikipedia:Random page patrol
- Wikipedia:Random pages test
- Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game – fun with the Random article feature
- Wikipedia:Enhanced Random Article – custom script
- randomlink.js – tool to follow a random link or go to a random page in a category, list or WikiProject
- Special:RandomInCategory
- Template:Random page in category
- Wikimedia sister projects
External links
- mw:API:Random, documentation for the Mediawiki Random API, which generates an arbitrary number of random pages from a MediaWiki site, optionally filtered by namespace
- Random Article Project
- Wikimedia Tool Labs random article tool—Random article per category in most Wikimedia projects