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Add __NORANDOM__ magic word to force page_random = 0
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Author: gangleri

Description:
Dear friends,

From bug 3946: page_random is 0 for many pages, excluding them from "random
page" requests
I could see that it is possible to suppress displaying pages in
[[special:Random]] and its variants as [[commons:special:Random/Image]],
[[commons:special:Random/Category]], [[meta:special:Random/Help]].

It would be a good oportunity to be able to control if a page is shown with
special:Random or not. It would be a community decision to use this feature or not.

At http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/special:Prefixindex/%E2%80%AB you see pages
with *invalid titles* which should be deleted at some point in time but which
still are available until
bug 3819: strip phantom general punctuation characters from page titles
bug 3887: create a special page for instring search of titles specifying %nn values
are fixed and bots are able to identify pages and characters mentioned in bug 3887.

Another benefit would be that contributors could start articles (as in [[news:]]
etc.) using NORANDOM in the first draft and delete NORANDOM from the
final article.

regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz3951

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:54 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz3951.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Nov 13 2005, 11:22 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Nov 20 2005, 9:03 PM

mediazilla wrote:

I'll vote for this feature, but I think wiki communities should use it very conservatively. Generally speaking, it shouldn't be
used to mark articles as unworthy. [[User:Melchoir]]

• bzimport added a comment.Nov 21 2005, 3:17 AM

robchur wrote:

Votes on this BugZilla tend to be ignored. I use mine as a sort of watchlist,
and I know most of our developers don't bother to look at them.

Bawolff added a comment.Jan 26 2006, 12:10 AM

I think this would be a very good feature. For example it would make
[[n:Portal:Australia/2006/January/11]] stop showing up when you goto
[[n:special:Random/portal]]. Another intreasting thing would to be able to maake
subpages not appear in special:random

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