Hi Platonides, I have tried the method at JBDirectory.com<http://jbdirectory.com>but apparently, it is still not random. I wonder what could have happened. I click the SQL button at the top (2nd tab) of pHpAdmin and execute the query, after I found that the query box in Query (4th tab) did not work.
PM Poon On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Alex. Yes, I am on shared hosting and it has PHPMyAdmin. > > PM Poon > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Alex Barley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's a MySQL query. If you have a commercial host (not your computer) >> running cPanel, it will probably have PHPMyAdmin - you can run the query >> from there. If you have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL on your computer, >> you'd be best off using the MySQL administrator program. >> >> 2009/6/28 Ekompute .info <[email protected]> >> >> > Hi Platonides, thank you for your response. I am a real monkey. I will >> find >> > out how to execute that query through Google Search. If you have a read >> > tutorial somewhere, do let me know too. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > PM Poon >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Ekompute .info wrote: >> > > > Hi, it seems like my random button is not working very well. It >> keeps >> > on >> > > > repeating certain pages instead of moving on. How can I can better >> > > > randomness? >> > > > >> > > > PM Poon >> > > >> > > Your random ids are not evenly distributed. >> > > Execute the query: UPDATE page SET page_random = RAND(); >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > MediaWiki-l mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MediaWiki-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
