Forum:Random Article From a Category

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Is there any way (Or how hard would it be to create a way) to create a link that brings up a random article from a specified category. What I would lke to do is to add a line to the

template that basically says: 

For Examples on how to be offensive see: [[%%Random Article From The Intentionally Offensive Category%%]]

without having to manually maintain a choice / option list of all the pages in the category. I think this could have a potential practical application in other categories as well... --Mindsunwound: (F@H) Crotch Drops Man Babies 16:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Also, how can force a template added to a page to not also add the item to the categories listed in the template??? maybe some sort of <nocategory>{{%%Template Name%%}}</nocategory>? --Mindsunwound: (F@H) Crotch Drops Man Babies 16:53, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but either a template adds pages to a category or it doesn't. If you just want the template to be in a category, then put that category link inside <noinclude> tags. --Algorithm 21:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't think it can be done. I know Special:Random can fetch articles form a particular namespace, but I don't think it does categories. Does anyone know if you can get it to only return subpages of a certain page? I want a link on Game:Game Online to restore a saved game by jumping to a random GO page. --User:Nintendorulez 18:52, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510 (and this) --Splaka 02:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

so this is something we should expect to see implemented at some further date? --Mindsunwound: (F@H) Crotch Drops Man Babies 15:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)