A fun exercise I did every day for a month was to take a (longish) random article and summarize 2 or 3 paragraphs of it (usually around 180 words), trying to make it as short as I could without losing the true meaning/purpose of those paragraphs.
> Featured articles are considered to be some of the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by Wikipedia's editors. They are used by editors as examples for writing other articles. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed as featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Most featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). There are 6,023 featured articles out of 6,400,532 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.09% or one out of every 1,060 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review.
A tiny bit off topic... but I semi-randomly look up W articles on a topic that comes to mind out of the blue. I’ve found great stuff this way. One that comes to mind is the page on the band Bachman Turner Overdrive. Insanely random luck led to their success. Often there’s a back story to so much that affects our lives
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 58.3 ms ] threadWikipedia Random Article (has gotten weird) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273917 - May 2020 (3 comments)
Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758508 - May 2014 (73 comments)
Edit: I did find this:
Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958625 - Dec 2017 (25 comments)
Doing the random page in a different language as a strategy for language learning is fun method itself to improve reading comprehension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Good_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
> Featured articles are considered to be some of the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by Wikipedia's editors. They are used by editors as examples for writing other articles. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed as featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Most featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). There are 6,023 featured articles out of 6,400,532 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.09% or one out of every 1,060 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandomRedirect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomrootpage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachman–Turner_Overdrive
I opened the link for the very first time and I kid you not, I land on a Polish municipality: Lipiny, Ciechanów County
I'm Polish.
That thing scares me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Hard rules:
Lists (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_advertising_c...) can't be navigated to
Back button can't be used (click wisely)
Additional rule:
Ctrl+F banned