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On Wikipedia and other sites running onMediaWiki,Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the mainnamespace; this feature is useful as a tool to view a random article.
Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using akeyboard shortcut (inEdge andChromeAlt+X, inFirefoxAlt-Shift+X).
To create a link to a random page in a differentnamespace, use[[Special:Random/Namespace]]. For example,Special:Random/Talk will take you to a random article's talk page. Selecting a random page from two or more namespaces is also possible by separating the namespaces with commas.Special:Random/Wikipedia,Talk goes to either an article's talk page or a project page. This also works with the article namespace as inSpecial:Random/Wikipedia,.
| Article | Talk |
| User | Talk |
| Wikipedia | Talk |
| File | Talk |
| MediaWiki | Talk |
| Template | Talk |
| Help | Talk |
| Category | Talk |
| Portal | Talk |
| Draft | Talk |
| TimedText | Talk |
| Module | Talk |
| 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 reallyrandom, read the answerhere.