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joejohnson on March 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops th...

Someone should implement a "Random Article" link that would select only from a Encyclopedia Britannica-esque subset of Wikipedia.

InnocentB on March 14, 2012 [–]

http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=en&... selects randomly from their list of Good articles, which is the nearest thing I'm aware of, though still not quite what you're describing.

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