Help:Random page

The random page (Special:Random) link can be used to go to a random article in a wiki's content namespaces. This link is great as a starting point for browsing a community, or if you just want to learn a random piece of information. A link to a random page is shown in the "Explore" tab of every community.

On most communities the content namespaces include only the main namespace. However, some communities have custom namespaces — if marked as content namespaces, they will also show in random page results.

Not all pages are included (such as redirects) and the results are not strictly random.

Random pages in specific namespaces
You can also choose to view random pages in specific namespaces.

To create a link to a random page in a specific namespace, use. For example: If you have custom namespaces on your community, you can also view random pages in those namespaces by linking to them in the same way.
 * Special:Random will take you to a page in any of the namespaces marked as content (generally only the main namespace).
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace, unless the wiki has Message Walls enabled (in which case it would take you to a page in the      namespace or mention how there are no pages in the specified namespace).
 * Special:Random/Project will take you to a page in the Project namespace (which generally redirects to a namespace with the same name as your wiki).
 * Special:Random/Project talk will take you to a page in the Project talk namespace (which generally redirects to a namespace with the same name as your wiki, with "talk" after the name).
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.
 * Special:Random/    will take you to a page in the      namespace.

If there are no pages in a namespace, the random page will take you to the main page of the community instead.

Note: "Project" can generally be used as a redirect to the Project namespace.

Random pages in a category
Alternatively, you can use Special:RandomInCategory to get a random page in a specific category.

Placing a specific category in the URL will let you pick a random page from that category. For example, Special:RandomInCategory/Help will pick a random page in the 'Help' category.

Further help and feedback
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