Extension:RandomPages

Category:Extensions without an imageCategory:GPL licensed extensions
MediaWiki extensions manual
RandomPages
Release status: betaCategory:Beta status extensions
Implementation Tag Category:Tag extensions
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.Category:Extensions with release branches compatibility policy
Database changes No
License GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
  • <randompages />
Quarterly downloads 1 (Ranked 95th)
Translate the RandomPages extension if it is available at translatewiki.net
Category:All extensionsCategory:Extensions not in ExtensionJson

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
limitintto control how many links should be fetched randomly from the database150
namespacebooltrue to restrict only to the global namespacefalse
levelsintlevels of CSS applied to each entry5
 <randompages limit="10" namespace="true" levels="10" />

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

Installation

  • Download and move the extracted RandomPages folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/RandomPages
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'RandomPages' );
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed. Category:Random page extensions
Category:All extensions Category:Beta status extensions Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control Category:Extensions not in ExtensionJson Category:Extensions with release branches compatibility policy Category:Extensions without an image Category:GPL licensed extensions Category:Random page extensions Category:Tag extensions