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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome {{keypress|Alt-Shift}}+{{keypress|X}}).

To create a link to a random page in a different namespace, use Special:Random/Namespace. For example, Special:Random/Talk will take you to a random article's talk page.

Display a random page in other namespaces:
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Article Talk

User Talk

Wikipedia Talk

File Talk

MediaWiki Talk

Template Talk

Help Talk

Category Talk

Portal Talk

Draft Talk

TimedText Talk

Module Talk

Display a random redirect in other namespaces:
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Main {{ns:1}}

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{{ns:4}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:6}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:8}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:10}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:12}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:14}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:100}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:118}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:710}} {{ns:1}}

{{ns:828}} {{ns:1}}

If you are wondering if the "random article" feature is really random, read the answer here.

See also

; Wikimedia sister projects

External links

  • mw:API:Random, documentation for the Mediawiki Random API, which generates an arbitrary number of random pages from a MediaWiki site, optionally filtered by namespace
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20200123081419/http://www.randomarticleproject.com/ Random Article Project]
  • [http://tools.wmflabs.org/erwin85/randomarticle.php Wikimedia Tool Labs random article tool]—Random article per category in most Wikimedia projects

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