Wikipedia:Random

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 generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome 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.

Display a random page in other namespaces:

Article Talk
User Talk
Wikipedia Talk
File Talk
MediaWiki Talk
Template Talk
Help Talk
Category Talk
Portal Talk
Draft Talk
TimedText Talk
Module Talk

Display a random redirect in other namespaces:

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

Wikimedia sister projects
  • Wikiversity:Random
  • Wiktionary:Random page
  • Wikinews:Portal:Random

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
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