User talk:Knulclunk/Random
How random is Special:Random?
[edit]I'm not sure Special:Random gives a representative sample.
One day I clicked it a lot and it had a huge percentage of Association football-related articles. Another day I clicked a lot and there were many fewer such articles. It would be nice to know just how random "random" really is. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- Man, talking about statics, what is the chances of getting an edit conflict on a red linked talk page? I just did. LOL Ikip (talk) 03:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- High, if the page is PUMPED.
- See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#How does Special:Random work?. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:38, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
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[edit]From: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Archive 12
![]() From my own curiosity, I calculated article topic distribution for 200 random articles. The results are interesting and can be found here.--Knulclunk (talk) 14:27, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh those statisticians... alway ruining a good party. I figured I would keep going to see if distribution leveled out at 500 or 1,000. I wonder what percentage of 2.5 million do you need to be within ±3.5%? --Knulclunk (talk) 15:41, 24 September 2008 (UTC) What about articles on clearly international topics (such as lunch or school) or non-Earth topics (such as planets)? Could you also take a random sample of FAs? --J.L.W.S. The Special One (talk) 04:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
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Ikip (talk) 03:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Interesting
[edit]Hey there Knulclunk. Just wanted to let you know that I found this experiment interesting and I've decided to add it to the Random Pages Test category so it can recieve wider exposure. I hope you don't mind. -- Ϫ 22:45, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
- Cool! Thanks. :) --Knulclunk (talk) 22:54, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
- I've noticed a pattern too with my use of the random article feature. I keep getting articles about villages in Poland and Iran (occasionally Canada and Romania). – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 03:43, 11 February 2018 (UTC)