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Wikipedia:Random. It is not an encyclopedic article, nor one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting.
Explore the depths of wikipedia, one random entry at a time.
Propel your curiosity to new heights with Random Wikipedia Page Generator! Explore a myriad of articles, uncovering hidden gems, diverse subjects, and captivating information from the world of Wikipedia.
The URL will be Wikipedia’s Special:Random page, which opens a totally random Wikipedia article. For Chrome users: Download this Chrome extension.
Help:Random page. If you are new to Wikipedia and just want to explore, or if you don't know where you want to go, the Simple English Wikipedia has a random page feature that takes you to any one of the pages on this wiki. In most cases, you would want to see any article.
This visualisation of Wikipedia's coverage is based on a random pages test (User:Smallbones/1000 random results). Suppose you want to answer some broad question about Wikipedia. Is it any good? What subjects does it cover? In what proportions? Is there much vandalism? Finding a truly accurate answer would mean reading every article.
About WikiRoulette. View a random Wikipedia page. Inspiration came from the book Algorithms to Live By. If you want to see a random Wikipedia page everytime you open Chrome, there's an extension for that (code is on Github).
This site allows you to open a random Wikipedia page from the top N to M ranked pages (you choose the values of N of M, from 1 up to 200,000 maximum).
The proper term for it is "pseudorandom", and due to resource limitations, most computers can only generate random numbers that are good enough for most purposes (for anything more serious, you need better entropy). For our purposes it's pretty darn random though.
Random page patrol is a volunteer-led patrol which refers to the process of regularly and frequently checking randomly selected pages through Special:Random. The primary goal of random page patrollers is to ensure random articles conform to Wikipedia's policies on content and style as well as the related guidelines.