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Provide "Random page of this book" feature for use on Wikibooks projects
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As the title indicates, please provide some way to get a random page of a book on Wikibooks projects. The feature could be used to get a random chapter of a book developed on Wikibooks, such as a random recipe from [[b:Cookbook]], or a random animal from [[b:Wikijunior:Animal Alphabet]] or a random sonnet from [[wikisource:Category:Sonnets]].

Even without fixing bug 15071, this would be possible if we had a way to restrict the current [[Special:RandomPage]] to a specific category. Another option is to use the list of chapters from a book created by [[Special:Book]] from [[mw:Extension:Collection]], as in [[mw:Extension:BookManager]].

Since there are various options to fix this, I'm marking this as dependent on (either of) the following bugs:

  • Bug 15071: Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books
  • Bug 25931: Review and enable RandomInCategory extension
  • Bug 31003: Replace {{RANDOMCHAPTER:Optional book name}} by [[Special:RandomChapter/Optional book name]]

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 OpenFeatureNoneT33254 Provide "Random page of this book" feature for use on Wikibooks projects
 OpenFeatureNoneT17071 Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books
 DeclinedNoneT52386 Create basic tool for reading books (group of pages)
 ResolvedNoneT53841 Navigation bars do not properly load until the JSON structure is re-saved.
 ResolvedNoneT52388 Create a function to make the handling of the reading interface simplest
 ResolvedNoneT54331 Navigation bars appear in diff view
 DeclinedNoneT54340 Allow non-Gregorian dates for publication date.
 DeclinedNoneT54343 Invalidate navbar cache when JSON is edited
 ResolvedLegoktmT54347 Use an IContextSource instead of globals
 ResolvedNoneT54435 Find previous/next links in the navbar more efficiently
 ResolvedNoneT52672 Reading interface need fallback for non JS users
 ResolvedNoneT52989 Add view frontend to the JSON block on Book: pages.
 DeclinedNoneT54816 Allow users to add links to the metadata
 DeclinedNoneT54823 Link the title in the JSON frontend to the main book page
 ResolvedNoneT54806 Add anchor to JS fallback metadata and content links
 DeclinedNoneT52679 Implement keyboard navigation for Bookmanagerv2
 ResolvedLegoktmT56304 JSON view frontend is broken
 ResolvedNoneT52759 Change navigation bar images to use local files
 ResolvedNoneT52762 Use variables to show/hide items in the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT52767 Use html or xml class to write the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT52957 Populate metadata, chapterlist, and prev/next in navbar from the JSON structure.
 ResolvedNoneT52674 Create an example JSON structure to be used in the navigation bar
 DeclinedNoneT52958 Validate a book's JSON block against a JSON schema.
 DeclinedNoneT54416 Add support for section indentation (subsections, etc.) in JSON schema
 DeclinedNoneT54470 Pull the JSON schema from a local page
 ResolvedNoneT52959 Pull the JSON schema from the Meta page.
 InvalidNoneT53062 JSON validator still allows properties that aren't in the schema if they're inside the sections array
 DeclinedNoneT53063 "pages" property does not allow for integers and arrays of integers
 ResolvedNoneT52988 Add i18n to JSON validation
 ResolvedNoneT53187 Allow pages that do not follow the "book/chapter name" syntax to be included in the navigation.
 ResolvedNoneT53193 Add namespace configuration variable
 ResolvedNoneT54821 Provide a link to the JSON (view) page from the navbar dropdowns
 ResolvedNoneT55288 Use more descriptive title attribute for read/edit buttons in navbar dropdowns
 ResolvedNoneT53194 Localize the publication date in the metadata
 ResolvedNoneT53196 Fix the appearance of wrapped text in the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT53195 Allow metadata drop down to play nicely with RTL languages
 DeclinedNoneT53240 Allow more structure in the navigation bar table of contents dropdown optionally
 ResolvedNoneT53241 Right arrow is still displayed on the last section of a book
 ResolvedNoneT52691 Add navigation bar fallback for users who can't view images or have different CSS
 ResolvedNoneT53258 Add title attribute for the data and toc icons
 ResolvedNoneT53256 No CSS loads when the browser's JS is disabled
 DeclinedNoneT53257 Improve UX in chapter dropdown menu for books with lots of chapters
 DeclinedNoneT52670 Load dropdown menu only after it is clicked
 DeclinedNoneT53384 Limit the number of sections loaded at once into the table of contents dropdown.
 DeclinedNoneT53386 Provide ability to search for a chapter that's not displayed in the dropdown
 ResolvedNoneT55105 Make the extension function completely independently from the schema
 ResolvedNoneT55164 Add variable to enable/disable the navigation bars
 ResolvedNoneT55289 Use more descriptive title attribute for prev/next buttons in navigation bar
 ResolvedBawolffT27931 Implement efficient way to select random page from specified category on Wikimedia wikis
 Declinedraylton.sousaT33003 Replace {{RANDOMCHAPTER:Optional book name}} by [[Special:RandomChapter/Optional book name]]

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:48 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz31254.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
He7d3r created this task.Sep 29 2011, 6:42 PM
He7d3r added a comment.Feb 5 2013, 4:30 PM

Also,

  • Bug 25931: Implement efficient way to select random page from specified category on Wikimedia wikis
Izno moved this task from To triage to Requests for new special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Jan 12 2017, 9:30 PM
MarcoAurelio closed subtask T17071: Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books as Declined.Nov 7 2017, 9:54 AM
Nemo_bis reopened subtask T17071: Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books as Open.Nov 7 2017, 2:24 PM
MarcoAurelio closed subtask T33003: Replace {{RANDOMCHAPTER:Optional book name}} by [[Special:RandomChapter/Optional book name]] as Declined.Nov 8 2017, 2:17 PM
Krinkle edited projects, added MediaWiki-General, OKR-Work; removed MediaWiki-Special-pages.Jun 24 2019, 12:26 AM
Krinkle removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Liuxinyu970226. · View Herald TranscriptJun 24 2019, 12:26 AM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM
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