Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:26 UTC
It would be nice to have the ability to read the articles on wikipedia in a linear manner. This would be a feature analogous to the "Random Article" feature in that it would be primarily for bored people, but would have the added benefit of allowing people to quantify and compare their boredom. One way of accomplishing this may be to make the seed value for the RNG used to determine a random article more prominent in the URL, so that it might easily be changed.
You can go to Special:Allpages/Last_page_name to get the next N pages. A JavaScript client tool could probably easily use this (or the machine API, better yet, I suspect) to grab 'the next' page for viewing. I don't think we'll integrate this into the mainline, though, since search and linking are the primary browse methods.
