Forum:Randomization Question

I'm currently planning to add some kind of a "Featured Article" to my main page sidebar and have no idea how to do that, if its even possible. Optimally the presented article summary would be automatically picked from a category list of featured articles and would probably use a pre-written summary for the actual presentation. (Since I doubt it would be easily possible otherwise)

Is there any way to do something like that with a present function in MediaWiki or any other code enabled here or is the only (sadly not configurable) randomization the page Special:Random?

 ( C rynsos Talk 18:36, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * Not sure if it's what you need, but there's an extension called "Random in category", which chooses a random article in a designated category, in your case "Featured articles". I wouldn't know something else. You can request it using Special:Contact. Mark (Talk) • (Contribs) 18:46, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * You can use something like, replacing 1,2,3 with FA blurbs.  19:05, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm... thanks Mark, sounds pretty much like what I searched for but apparently Ose's solution is a bit simpler to use. But I don't really know any " " HTML tags or anything alike, is that a normal MediaWiki-only function? I'm more used to those functions being included in more unusual symbols like, Bold or simply in templates.


 *  ( C rynsos Talk 20:00, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, and are MediaWiki only tags. As is the, and tags. --Yoshord 01:06, December 23, 2009 (UTC)