There's a discussion going on at [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/ Computing#Wikipedia Random Article]] about how the random article feature works. A couple people have made claims that I find surprising, such as that we "take 1000 articles every few minutes and then chose a random one from it", or that the function "only shows articles up to a certain size", or that instead of choosing a random article it now chooses "a random subject (and then a random article in that framework)". Is anything like this going on? Are we no longer simply taking a a random selection from the entirety of the page table? (Feel free to answer at RD/C, or here.)

There's a discussion going on at [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/ Computing#Wikipedia Random Article]] about how the random article feature works. A couple people have made claims that I find surprising, such as that we "take 1000 articles every few minutes and then chose a random one from it", or that the function "only shows articles up to a certain size", or that instead of choosing a random article it now chooses "a random subject (and then a random article in that framework)". Is anything like this going on? Are we no longer simply taking a a random selection from the entirety of the page table? (Feel free to answer at RD/C, or here.)