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| - | Hi Gfd,<br/>
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| - | Thanks for making this template and adding documentation! Now that I understand its purpose better I'd like to suggest a couple of things:
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| - | * Right now, the template maps the day of the year to a subset of the available FA articles. I think we can improve this by having a separate mapping template that enumerates all FAs (weekly and daily) and assigns each a number from 1-400 (or however many there are) and provides the FA article based on that input number. Ideally it should also be able to find the article by year/year-offset but I'm not sure yet what the application for that would be.
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| - | * The FAs are currently on a repeated rotation so every day of the year would give the same FA. We could help 'randomize' this by using a [[Wikipedia:Linear_congruential_generator#Sample_Python_code|Linear_congruential_generator]] formula as a simple but predictable PRNG. We can then feed the formula the current <code>date*1000+dayOfYear</code> or <code>date*10000+month*100+dayOfMonth</code> value so that we end up with a predictable pattern that won't repeat for many years! Oh, I guess we'd have to normalize the input and output so that all 400 entries have the roughly equal probability of appearing. But these things can be solved I think!
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| - | Anyway, that's my two cents on my two ideas. This can be worked on once the fate of the main page redesign is decided. Thanks for your hard work! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 14:40, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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