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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 ChromeAlt-Shift+ X).
Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page); Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Proposed Title]]; Click the Publish changes button;
Random pages tests by various editors can be found in Category:Random pages tests, although the category is not comprehensive. The concept of random sampling is not exactly original to Wikipedia; indeed, various editors seem to have independently conceived the idea in Wikipedia's context several times over. The earliest tests date back to 2003.
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Random page patrol is a volunteer-led patrol which refers to the process of regularly and frequently checking randomly selected pages through Special:Random.The primary goal of random page patrollers is to ensure random articles conform to Wikipedia's policies on content and style as well as the related guidelines.
in your sandbox – this is a page you can always easily find, by clicking 'Sandbox' at the top of any page at Wikipedia by tapping the user icon in the top right corner to show the menu linking your sandbox. Downside: you can only create one article at a time there, and it's not so easy for other editors to find. in a user subpage.
The Userbox Maker is a great tool that helps editors create a new page [note 1] for any new userbox to be created, so that an editor does not have to figure out how to do this themselves. Using the Userbox Maker is very easy:
The easiest way to upload pages from your computer is to group all the source pages in the same folder, and to create a list where each article name is the same as the file name. When the list is ready, open AWB and select Make list , Source , Text file (both UTF-8 and Windows 1252 / ANSI works).