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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Randomcan be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut(in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome Alt-Shift+X).
Creation is simple: upon clicking a red link, you will be transported to a blank page. Once there, enter any text and then click the Publish changes button. That's it; the page should have been created. Many pages are created after a user sees an existing red link on a page, and then follows these steps.
Current list (API call) Drafts are pages in the Draft namespace ( draftspace) where new articles [note 1] can be created and developed, for a limited period of time. [note 2] They allow editors to develop new articles and to receive feedback before being moved to Wikipedia's article namespace ( mainspace ).
Page name is a term that is used to refer to any page that is sent from a Wikipedia database. It does not usually refer to virtual namespaces, like Special or Media pages. The page name is normally the same as the displayed title, shown on the title line, near the top of the page, in a large font size.
In the Wikipedia database, each page is assigned a "random index", which is a random floating point number uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive). The "random article" feature (Special:Random) chooses a random double-precision floating-point number , and returns the next article whose random index is greater than the ...
v. t. e. Page name is a term for the title of any page on Wikipedia. A page is named for the convenience of linking to it by its title. It is shown on the title line, near the top, in large bold letters. On Wikipedia, a database stores all the pages, and so a page is also named for the convenience of a database query to get that page.
You have several options: in "Draftspace" – this is a special area of Wikipedia dedicated to creating new articles, and is a good choice because other editors can find your draft here and help out. in your sandbox – this is a page you can always easily find, by clicking 'Sandbox' at the top of any page at Wikipedia.
This special page goes to the page of the name supplied after the slash, e.g. Special:MyLanguage/Example goes to Example on this wiki. When an interwiki Page or an invalid page name is entered after the slash, this page redirects to Main page. Special:MyPage, User page for active user, also used for generic link to User/sandbox