A while back, we needed a similar functionality (a random number generated
on the wiki upon page save that would be permanently available afterwards)
in fawiki, to use it as a last-resort tie breaker for a certain election.
We ended up using the page_random field (it is a random number between 0
and 1, which can be easily converted to an integer between 1-6 or whatever
other range desired).

The point is, I would support (re)creating an extension like this, and
hopefully enabling it on WMF wikis as well.

PS: I tried to fetch the source of that project via Archive.org but was not
successful.[1]

[1]
https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193209/https://www.uberbox.org/gitweb/?p=Dice.git;a=summary

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I assume you'll hear back from Dan Shiovitz, admin for inky.org.  But If
> you need more contact info, I hope you saw this:
> https://inky.org/resume.html
>
> btw, I don't understand the utility of this extension. Is it useful for
> game wikis?
>
> ~ Greg
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