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Have a Special:Randombook, or similar, that only returns top-level pages
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Author: wknight8111

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en.wikibooks in particular, but other sites as well, have a problem because our pages are not all top-level pages, but are instead arranged hierarchically. En.wikibooks may have pages arranged into books such as "MyBook/MyPage", or en.wikiversity may have "MyCourse/MyPage", en.wikisource may have "MySource/MyPage", etc. Special:Random returns any random page, which may be inside a larger book. I would like, and several other people have expressed a similar desire, to see a variant of Special:Random that would only return top-level pages (ie, pages with no "/" in the title). For instance, "Special:Randomrootpage" would be a generic way to label it, or something similar.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:01 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz13051.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Feb 18 2008, 2:16 AM
Huji added a comment.Feb 18 2008, 10:27 AM

As this is only needed for wikis which follow the subpage hierarchy, I think it will be more appropriate to add this feature as an extension, not in the core. I'll try to write the extension as soon as I can.

Huji added a comment.Feb 18 2008, 11:43 AM

I created the first version of the extension and uploaded it to: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomRootPage

After a review by main developers, it may be installed to Wikibooks for the prupose you asked here. I'm marking this bug as fixed, because there is a solution available for it now.

• bzimport added a comment.Feb 18 2008, 3:45 PM

wknight8111 wrote:

Wow, that's fantasically awesome! We've been talking about this for so long, and I was expecting a bug report to add a few more weeks to the process. You're wonderful Huji!

Huji added a comment.Feb 18 2008, 3:49 PM

Heh, thanks for the complements. I'm glad I've helped. If you want help with the rest of the way, you can contact me by email.

• demon added a comment.Dec 15 2008, 7:38 PM
  • Bug 15827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• demon added a comment.Jun 8 2009, 1:40 PM
  • Bug 19101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Danny_B merged tasks: T21101: Random Base Page Only, T17827: Special:Random should ignore subpages in namespaces that allow them.Jul 9 2016, 2:46 PM
Danny_B added subscribers: • demon, • bzimport.
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