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Author: noshowdown

Description:
This parameter would make it so Special:Random/namespace would only seek a base page and not a subpage.


Version: 1.14.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_requests#Extension:RandomBasePageOnly

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bz19101

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:43 PM
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noshowdown wrote:

I just thought of a perhaps preferential implimentation..

If you had a name space called "NAMESPACE"

[[Special:Random/NAMESPACE]] would show any page - including a base page

[[Special:Random/NAMSPACE/Basepage]] would only show a base page, but not a subpage.

How's that?! :)

noshowdown wrote:

I just thought of a perhaps preferential implimentation..

If you had a name space called "NAMESPACE"

[[Special:Random/NAMESPACE]] would show any page - including a base page

[[Special:Random/NAMSPACE/Basepage]] would only show a base page, but not a subpage.

How's that?! :)

Functionality already exists, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Randomrootpage

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