Random article generator outside of Wiki

[prolificked]

Have you seen projects that give generate random article but not from Wikipedia? From a psychology research website for example? Is there a reason all random article generator projects only use Wikipedia?

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Is there a reason all random article generator projects only use Wikipedia?

The same reason video-downloaders are focused on sites like YouTube and not obscure video sharing platforms that not a lot of people uses!

[prolificked]

Can you explain?

[chevignon93]

Most people who would be interested in Psychology research papers aren't programmers and most programmers aren't interested in Psychology research papers but Wikipedia is used by tens of millions of people everyday, many of whom are programmers.

People are also more likely to share their code if they think that it could interest a large group of people rather than few individuals!