User:Kevincox/Random

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Documentation for Kevincox/Random

This template will select a random item from the list of items passed in and "return" it. Effectively including one of the passed in items at random.

Syntax

 {{User:Kevincox/RandomQuote|3
 |{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', making preparations|... Let's go practice medicine.|sound=LetsGoPracticeMedicine.wav}}
 |{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', writing a template|Please work!.}}
 |{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}}
 }}
 

The first argument is the number of items and the rest of the arguments are the items themselves. Below is the above example.

“

... Let's go practice medicine. Click to listen — The Medic, making preparations

”

Updating Notes

Because Mediawiki caches pages to improve performance the template will only update when the page is purged, this happens when a page, or any templates on a page are edited. The cache is also invalidated and purged every $wgParserCacheExpireTime seconds see [this page] for more info.