 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | Tag |
| 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. |
| MediaWiki | |
| Database changes | No |
| License | GNU General Public License 3.0 or later |
| Download | Download extension Git [?]: |
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| Quarterly downloads | 6 (Ranked 164th) |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | int | to control how many links should be fetched randomly from the database | 150 |
| namespace | bool | true to restrict only to the global namespace | false |
| levels | int | levels of CSS applied to each entry | 5 |
<randompages limit="10" namespace="true" levels="10" />
Gets 10 random pages from the global namespace with 10 levels of style
Installation
- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
RandomPagesin yourextensions/folder. - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'RandomPages' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:
The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension().
If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.24 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'RandomPages' );, you need to use:
require_once "$IP/extensions/RandomPages/RandomPages.php";
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