MediaWiki talk:Randomrootpage-url

Alternative

 * Problem: Atm the so-called "random book" function produces largely pages of the cookbook, since it's a content space and most of its pages are at the top level. It also produces a bunch of books, and then every once in a while it produces a shelf, or even a department, because those pages although categorized as part of the Wikibooks Stacks are given page names that the wiki platform treats as if they were standalone books.


 * Proposed solution: Instead of using the platform's built-in definition of a root page, draw a random page from Category:Subject:Books by subject/all books.  Once the Wikibooks Stacks shelving is complete, we'd switch over to using that.  That is, change
 * Special:Randomrootpage
 * to
 * Special:RandomInCategory/Subject:Books by subject/all books


 * Possible variant: If we want to include some cookbook pages, we could arrange for some other specially generated category.

I'm going to try this, momentarily, to see if (and how well) it works; honestly, I'd be surprised if this function is used much, so I doubt I'd be disrupting much by trying the experiment. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Now switching to draw from Category:Book:Wikibooks Stacks/Books, thus
 * Special:RandomInCategory/Book:Wikibooks Stacks/Books
 * --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:40, 15 November 2018 (UTC)