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I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness
by papeda 6y ago
I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- austinl 6y agoReminds me of the Wikipedia vital articles. I've been trying to learn German, so I've been picking one mostly at random and reading the German translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
- sawmurai 6y agoBrilliant idea. I will use it to improve my polish!
- PenisBanana 6y agoHad (a Turkish language, my then target language) random wikipedia page as my home page for a while, a year maybe.
- chirag64 6y agoI loved the idea of Wikipedia's random page but I realized I needed something like this for the topics that I was interested in (instead of everything in the world because it ended up being too random for my interest). I ended up creating a Twitter bot that tweets random articles from a custom list of topics I was interested in at regular intervals Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/randomwikibotch/ http://twitter.com/randomwikibotch/ Source code if anyone is interested at creating their own: https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot