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Suggestion to add a "random article" button to the "More" menu
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Author: philinje

Description:
Random is a very popular feature, let's add it to the More menu.


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Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:06 AM
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api.php?action=query&list=random&rnnamespace=0

Or just go to Special:Random ;)

Was done on the Hackathon by lots of people. we need to figure out *where* to put it - not on the 'More' menu item.

(In reply to comment #0)

Random is a very popular feature, let's add it to the More menu.

+1 for the suggestion.

Wanted to file a similar suggestion, but the present idea is good enough. Dear mobile-coders, please implement such a feature.

Here's a pull request I threw together for Android: https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile/pull/313

There's not really room on the current iPhone menu though so I didn't add to that yet -- still want to add that to close this out probably.

We'll see about tossing this in in the new app... de-assigning old bug.

Resolving as wont fix for the old app. You can track progress on a similar feature on trello for the new app https://trello.com/c/85TM1ocu/57-1-as-a-wikilost-user-i-want-to-go-to-a-random-article-so-i-can-explore-without-hassle