Special:Random should ignore subpages in namespaces that allow them
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	Oct 4 2008, 1:10 PM

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Case:

Portal:Foo
Portal:Foo/item1
Portal:Foo/item2
Portal:Foo/item3
Portal:Foo/item4

anywhere

or even

Book
Book/chapter1
Book/chapter2
Book/chapter3
Book/chapter4

on Wikibooks

etc...

Now, Special:Random redirects (among others) to /itemX, /chapterX, etc. subpages which isn't good, especially on pages created from subpages, such as portals are, where such subpage could be eg. just POTD or so.

Maybe $wgRandomIgnoreSubpages global with default = true or even $wgRandomIgnoreSubpagesInNamespaces array of (0->1, 1->1, 2->0...) values could be added as well so in case any wiki would like to have the default ignore behavior overridable.

Version: 1.14.x
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz15827

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:22 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.

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Danny_B created this task.Oct 4 2008, 1:10 PM

A relevant request was made a while ago, and I created an extension to be used for it. Please see bug 13051.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13051 ***

Danny_B closed this task as a duplicate of T15051: Have a Special:Randombook, or similar, that only returns top-level pages.Jul 9 2016, 2:46 PM

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