Author: gangleri
Description:
Dear friends,
From bug 3946: page_random is 0 for many pages, excluding them from "random
page" requests
I could see that it is possible to suppress displaying pages in
[[special:Random]] and its variants as [[commons:special:Random/Image]],
[[commons:special:Random/Category]], [[meta:special:Random/Help]].
It would be a good oportunity to be able to control if a page is shown with
special:Random or not. It would be a community decision to use this feature or not.
At http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/special:Prefixindex/%E2%80%AB you see pages
with *invalid titles* which should be deleted at some point in time but which
still are available until
bug 3819: strip phantom general punctuation characters from page titles
bug 3887: create a special page for instring search of titles specifying %nn values
are fixed and bots are able to identify pages and characters mentioned in bug 3887.
Another benefit would be that contributors could start articles (as in [[news:]]
etc.) using NORANDOM in the first draft and delete NORANDOM from the
final article.
regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement