Closed
Bug 793684
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
Add a "random page" feature
Categories
(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, enhancement)
developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
Design
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: sheppy, Unassigned)
Details
(Whiteboard: [pm-wanted])
Most wikis offer a "visit a random page" button. This can be useful for people that just want to go somewhere at random either to look for things to update, or to find something new and different to read. This should be an easy to find "Random article" button or menu option; the exact placement needs to be decided. ubernostrum says: don't use Django's random(), instead select IDs, and do the random choice in Python, then fetch the article with that ID since ORDER BY rand() has horrific performance on MySQL.
Updated•12 years ago
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Priority: -- → P4
Updated•10 years ago
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Whiteboard: [triaged]
Updated•10 years ago
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Severity: minor → enhancement
Priority: P4 → --
Whiteboard: [triaged] → [pm-wanted]
Comment 1•10 years ago
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Hi, I can take backend-side of this ticket if you you're interested.
Flags: needinfo?(jkarahalis)
Flags: needinfo?(eshepherd)
Comment 2•10 years ago
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Hi Jarek. That's great! I think we still need to decide if we want this feature in the product. Any thoughts Ali?
Flags: needinfo?(jkarahalis)
Flags: needinfo?(eshepherd)
Flags: needinfo?(aspivak)
Comment 3•10 years ago
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I'm not fond of this feature. Do we want this on all pages? Seems like page cluttering for me. Is there any metric that this would improve and that we can measure? Also I think we should ask UX about such feature. In fact, I'm not convinced this is solving a real problem.
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Comment 4•10 years ago
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This not a high-priority feature. Indeed, I bet it's something that could be done in KumaScript code and put on a "special features" page somewhere. We should think about that.
Comment 5•10 years ago
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I'm going to say no on this one. I don't see the benefit, and we have so much outdated content I worry people would be sent to something very much not useful.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(aspivak)
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•4 years ago
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Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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