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Bug 18904 - Special:Random always calls the same Page
Special:Random always calls the same Page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.13.x
All All
: Normal minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://zlb.uni-due.de/wiki/index.php?...
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Reported: 2009-05-25 09:40 UTC by Sören Dohmen
Modified: 2010-05-15 16:03 UTC (History)
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Description Sören Dohmen 2009-05-25 09:40:08 UTC 
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.

Thanx
Comment 1 Happy-melon 2009-05-25 21:46:34 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 Sören Dohmen 2009-05-27 06:41:22 UTC 
the page_random value in the page table is either 0 or 1
Comment 3 Sören Dohmen 2009-05-27 10:20:00 UTC 
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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