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Bug 15824 - New Special page: Random page in category
New Special page: Random page in category
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2170
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-10-04 11:18 UTC by Church of emacs
Modified: 2010-11-07 15:14 UTC (History)
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Description Church of emacs 2008-10-04 11:18:39 UTC 
It'd be nice if Special:Random could be limited to pages in a certain category. This would be especially useful for large Wikis and Wikipedia Portals. Possible ways:
* keep Special:Random, but add Special:Random/<category name>
* create a new Special page with an input form (like Special:RandomPageInCategory and Special:RandomPageInCategory/<category name>)
Comment 1 Huji 2008-10-04 20:26:37 UTC 
I believe this is a good candidate for an extension, rather than a core feature. A similar feature was requested a while ago, and I created an extension for that. Please see bug 13051.
Comment 2 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2008-10-05 19:56:38 UTC 
Note that this was added in r27380 and removed in r27436.
Comment 3 Raimond Spekking 2009-01-07 11:54:29 UTC 
The extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomInCategory exists for this purpose. Don't know if possible to enable it on WMF servers but that should go into another bug.
Comment 4 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2010-11-07 13:56:56 UTC 
*** Bug 2170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Platonides 2010-11-07 15:14:44 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2170 ***
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