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This is an information page.
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It is not 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. WP:RAN

On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to

access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to
generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a
random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
To create a link to a random page in a different namespace,
use [[Special:Random/Namespace]] . For example, Special:Random/Talk will take you
to a random article's talk page.
Display a random page in other namespaces:

Article Talk
User Talk
Wikipedia Talk
File Talk
MediaWiki Talk
Template Talk
Help Talk
Category Talk
Portal Talk
Draft Talk
TimedText Talk
Module Talk
 Display a random redirect in other namespaces:

Main Talk
User Talk
Wikipedia Talk
File Talk
MediaWiki Talk
Template Talk
Help Talk
Category Talk
Portal Talk
Draft Talk
TimedText Talk
Module Talk

If you are wondering if the "random article" feature is really random, read the
answer here.
See also
 Wikipedia:Random page patrol
 Wikipedia:Random pages test
 Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game – fun with the Random article feature
 Wikipedia:Enhanced Random Article – custom script
 randomlink.js – tool to follow a random link or go to a random page in a category, list
or WikiProject
 Special:RandomInCategory
 Template:Random page in category
Wikimedia sister projects

 Wikiversity:Random
 Wiktionary:Random page
 Wikinews:Portal:Random
External links
 mw:API:Random, documentation for the Mediawiki Random API, which generates
an arbitrary number of random pages from a MediaWiki site, optionally filtered by
namespace
 Random Article Project
 Wikimedia Tool Labs random article tool—Random article per category in most
Wikimedia projects
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