Maniphest T20904

Special:Random always calls the same Page
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	• bzimport
	May 25 2009, 9:40 AM

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Author: soeren.dohmen

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Using Special:Random always delivers the same page. E.g the main page or if excluded in localsettings.php like this: "$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Hauptseite"';" it delivers always the same page (here: ZLB). I made a database backup and tried it on a clean (no extensions) local installation with mw1.14 but even here the same problem. So it seems to be a problem with my database. Where do i have to search.

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Version: 1.13.x
Severity: minor
URL: http://zlb.uni-due.de/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Random

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:37 PM

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

• bzimport set Reference to bz18904.

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• bzimport created this task.May 25 2009, 9:40 AM

happy.melon.wiki wrote:

The randompage feature works using random numbers stored in the page_rand column of the page table. Have a look at the values for the pages on your wiki.

soeren.dohmen wrote:

the page_random value in the page table is either 0 or 1

soeren.dohmen wrote:

The type of page_random was double(20,0).
I changed ist to double and then reorganised that column in the way described on
http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/wiki/Fixing_%22Random_Page%22

Now the Special:Random instruction is running correctly.

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