Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-31402001-20140724185706/@comment-26975268-20140725011814

That is absolutely possible, but very complicated. Check out tardis:Template:Transmat:Doctor Who to see how User:CzechOut managed it. (There are actually two additional layers of templates to get that to work, both of which I believe were originally taken from Wikipedia.)

I just added those two necessary templates to your wiki so you don't have to deal with the complicated tech side to it at all -- which I don't fully understand myself, to be honest, though I get the just of it.

You can now, with the following syntax, have it randomly showcase a different article on every page load: Change the number in the template to however many articles total that can be chosen.

To have it change by the day would be more complicated, but still possibly do-able -- probably with some use of  (for numerical day of the month) or   (for numerical day of the week). If that's what you absolutely need, I'll give it some thought. I feel like by-the-page-load should do fine, though, right?

At this point, you have three choices: Which works best with your vision?
 * 1) You can actually add the contents of the articles themselves to the template.
 * 2) You can add them to subpages of the template (say, etc., and then transclude those at random.
 * 3) You can transclude the articles themselves as they currently stand at random, and be able to shorten the preview to a set number of paragraphs through CSS (off the top of my head).