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== A Daily Dose of Knowledge ==

Wikipedia rules! Is there any chance the site's creators/maintainers would implement a feature so that userse could sign up to recieve a daily (or weekly, or whatever) wikipedia entry (encyclopedia article) on a random subject (or, random within a user-selected set of categories)? It could be a daily dose of knoweldge. I would love something like that, and I'm betting others, would, too.

And, if not, is there anything like this in existence already (that is not limited to a certain subject)?

: Hmm, click [[Special:Randompage]] once a day? It would be interesting to get something like that in the email though, perhaps a new mailing list that sends a copy of the featured article of the day to subscribers? -- [[User:Jrdioko|Jrdioko]] 05:29, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

: Anyone could set up a mailing list like that. Why not organise one? [[User:MyRedDice|Martin]] 15:27, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

:: How? Email me at lukeprog@hotpop.com

: I believe there has been some discussion both about a mailing list, and about distributing the [[Wikipedia:featured article]] of the day via [[RSS (protocol)|RSS]] syndication (the latter really is the more sensible option, if perhaps the less accessible one).  In both cases it needs someone to write some code, someone to set up the necessary server things, and someone to figure out some needful policy (who does what, when, etc.).  Our having a "featured article of the day" is itself a new (and I think excellent) innovation, so we've not yet gotten around to figuring out the details of publishing or syndicating it yet.  But yes, it would be a great thing to have (much like those "word a day" emails people get). -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 00:36, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:::Some people set their browser's home page to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage which functions as a sort of Wikipedia Article of the Day idea.  Just a suggestion. :-) [[User:Jwrosenzweig|Jwrosenzweig]] 18:00, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)