Last modified: 2014-07-24 04:46:45 UTC
[[Special:RandomRootPage/]] returns also from other namespace than main only. Seems it returns either from content namespaces or 0 + any other even ns >= 100? On cswikisouirce it returns from ns:0 and ns:100, which are both set as content ns. It should return only main ns, because it is specified. (unlike [[Special:RandomRootPage]] which also returns ns:0 and ns:100 - assuming the content namespaces.)
Does this bug happen for [[Special:random]] too?
[[Special:Random]] is definitely problematic at this time (for English Wikisource) whether that was the case at that time is unknown.
I am having a problem with randomrootpage on en.wikibooks where it has started to behave the same way as [[Special:Random]] returning pages that are not root pages.
Problem appears to have started at en.wikibooks following the deployment of 1.24/wmf9
I guess the problem is that we're not using ElasticSearch to do the randomness. Meaning the SQL query, and as such, the amended SQL query for Special:RandomRootPage isn't actually run... Transplanting something like the below into the extension would fix this issue /** * Choose a random title. * @return Title|null Title object (or null if nothing to choose from) */ public function getRandomTitle() { $row = $this->selectRandomPageFromDB( wfRandom() ); /* If we picked a value that was higher than any in * the DB, wrap around and select the page with the * lowest value instead! One might think this would * skew the distribution, but in fact it won't cause * any more bias than what the page_random scheme * causes anyway. Trust me, I'm a mathematician. :) */ if ( !$row ) { $row = $this->selectRandomPageFromDB( "0" ); } if ( $row ) { return Title::makeTitleSafe( $row->page_namespace, $row->page_title ); } return null; }
(In reply to Sam Reed (reedy) from comment #5) > I guess the problem is that we're not using ElasticSearch to do the > randomness. now, not not. I guess the problem is that we're now using ElasticSearch to do the randomness.
(In reply to billinghurst from comment #2) > [[Special:Random]] is definitely problematic at this time (for English > Wikisource) whether that was the case at that time is unknown. I've split this to bug 66879. Lets keep separate bugs separate
For the original problem... $this->namespaces = MWNamespace::getContentNamespaces(); Just need to modify $this->namespaces in the constructor on the extension
Change 140916 had a related patch set uploaded by Brian Wolff: Allow specifying a random page only in main namespace https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/140916
I also just discovered that doing Special:RandomRootPage/main should also work (and has for quite a while).
Change 140916 merged by jenkins-bot: Allow specifying a random page only in main namespace https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/140916
Should start working on July 29
