I’m shocked at the method for picking a random page. It’s guaranteed to produce permanent biases in the randomization and lots of path dependence in how individual articles’ chances change over time. Picking a random int from 1 to N is not rocket science.
This makes me wonder if there isn’t some intentional weighting going on, e.g. certain favored pages get space in front of them cleared out so they’re more likely to pop up.
This makes me wonder if there isn’t some intentional weighting going on, e.g. certain favored pages get space in front of them cleared out so they’re more likely to pop up.