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Random Wikipedia for Homepage

#1
Came across a neat little Wikipedia trick today in which you enter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random into the url bar and you'll get a random Wikipedia entry every time.

Of course I almost immediately thought about changing the en to jp to get jp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random which gives you random Japanese entries.

I now have that address set as my browser's homepage so every time I open my browser or click the home button I am greeted by a random Wikipedia entry in Japanese. Figured it'd be useful for reading practice and you could learn some random stuff at the same time. Smile
Edited: 2010-05-27, 10:30 pm
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#2
Awesome, thanks!

Related: site 'shuffle' for browsers? (Still waiting for something cool like a Greasemonkey script or browser extension for this.)



(Just 'echoing' the links for bookmarking ease.)
http://jp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Edited: 2010-05-27, 6:11 pm
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#3
Changed my homepage.
Thanks for the awesome idea!
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#4
Tried it out and got this http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E...D%E3%83%95

Boring! I'm never trying that again Wink
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