Extension:RandomPages

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RandomPages Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	Allows to return one or more randomly selected pages
Author(s)	Aurelian Oancea
Latest version	0.5.0 (2018-04-06)
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
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Tags <randompages />
Quarterly downloads	5 (Ranked 157th)
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The Random Pages extension returns one or more randomly selected pages. The original version 0.2 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.25+ (Original URL: http://locknet.ro/). Now version 0.5.0 supports all MediaWiki 1.25+ version.

Usage

RandomPages adds a new MediaWiki wiki parser tag: <randompages />

Available options

Name	Type	Description	Default
limit	int	to control how many links should be fetched randomly from the database	150
namespace	bool	true to restrict only to the global namespace	false
levels	int	levels of CSS applied to each entry	5

 <randompages limit="10" namespace="true" levels="10" />

Gets 10 random pages from the global namespace with 10 levels of style

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called RandomPages in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'RandomPages' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.24 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'RandomPages' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/RandomPages/RandomPages.php";