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This site allows you to open a random Wikipedia page from the top N to M ranked pages (you choose the values of N of M, from 1 up to 200,000 maximum).
The pages are sorted based on their Google PageRank score (a page's PageRank score is determined by the number and quality of inward links to that page from elsewhere on the web).
PageRank data was obtained from The Open Wikipedia Ranking.
Hi, I'm Gary Stephens, a web developer, quizzer and quiz setter, based in Dublin, Ireland. (If you're a fellow quizzer, try my weekly quiz on the Irish Quiz Organisation's Facebook page, every Monday morning.)
When writing quizzes, I want to avoid always setting questions on the 'same old subjects'. So it's useful to have a random subject generator. Also, I know many fellow quizzers just like randomly browsing Wikipedia.
Now, while Wikipedia has a random page generator, it selects from all of the site's 5,740,000+ pages, the vast majority of which are far too obscure to set questions on, and not very interesting for random browsers. :sadface:
So I created this page, using PageRank as a basis to exclude more obscure pages from the random selection. :happyface:
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