Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26151461-20150705161337/@comment-452-20150705170539

That Snorlax randomiser is an interesting implementation. It's achieved by having all of the images sequentially numbered, and chosen based on the number of edits to the wiki (with a template to retrieve the name based on the number).

Do you want just a link, or a summary?

Both of my solutions require the Dynamic Page List extension to be enabled, which you can ask Wikia Staff to do. They will ask if you're sure you need it and if you'll be responsible with it and probably link you to the help page about caching: http://semeb.com/dpldemo/Dplcache#dplcache so you should read all of that and be sure to always use caching.

Just a link: (The first three lines control the caching)

And to use a summary: To specify the summary, create page named Template:Featured, and have it output nothing - or have it output the category, that works too.

Then, in the article:

An explanation about the parameters: |category = Featured This specifies to only select articles from Category:Featured - so make sure to change that if your category is named differently. (This line is actually redundant due to the next line, I'm unsure whether keeping it is more efficient.)

|uses = Template:Featured This specifies to only select articles which contain Template:Featured - this makes the category check redundant. If you were sure that every article in Category:Featured contained Template:Featured, you could omit this line, but it's safer to include it anyway.

|include = {featured}:1 This specifies what to output. You could also use and |include = {featured}:summary
 * The "{featured}" means "include content from Template:Featured"
 * The 1 means "parameter 1"

|format=, \n,\n This specifies exactly what to output, as you can see, this makes a box with a dotted border, but you can change it to whatever you like. The important part about this is the commas: |format=,Before the automatic output,After the automatic output

So, all together this will output: \nThis is where the summary goes\n Or, with the newlines as newlines: This is where the summary goes

You can read more about this at http://semeb.com/dpldemo/Format

Or see http://semeb.com/dpldemo/DPL:Manual for information about every parameter.