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October 1

Wikipedia random article function

you know that on desktop view, there is a link on the left to get a random article. Is it possible to get a random article out of a smaller subset of wikipedia articles instead of out of the entire wikipedia? for example, generate random Australians. Or random Australian scientists. Or random female Australian scientists, etc. ~2026-52731-07 (talk) 04:57, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Yup, you're looking for Special:RandomInCategory. Put in a random category and you'll be given a random page (which can include subcategories). ―Panamitsu (talk) 06:00, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

cool thanks! if you have a sec to explain how it works though? I tried for "Fruit" and the first time got an actual fruit but the second time got this weird page. can i get a fruit every time? weird page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fruit_morphology&wpcategory=Fruit ~2026-52731-07 (talk) 18:54, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Yeah you put in Category:Fruit. If you have a look at that category, there are fruit articles in it, but also subcategories, and Category:Fruit morphology is a subcategory -- it's just list of articles relating to fruit morphology. ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. That doesn't quite do what I hoped for then, though slightly better than the general random function. If you think of a way to do it and only get real articles, let me know, but thank you for the answer so far. ~2026-52731-07 (talk) 02:59, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

It turns out there's the template Template:Random page in category which allows for this, but it's not as simple to use. The wikitext {{Random page in category|Fruit|type=page}} creates this link: Random page in category Fruit. But you have to put that wikitext onto a place like your talk page if you want to be able to use it yourself.

An alternative is you can go to this link: https://randomincategory.toolforge.org/Fruit?site=en.wikipedia.org&type=page but if you don't want "Fruit" you change it to another category name. This link is what the template above uses. ―Panamitsu (talk) 05:28, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Apple SEP

On Security and privacy of iOS#Secure Enclave there is the sentence:

The secure enclave itself is a flashable 4 MB AKF processor core called the secure enclave processor

The sentence (and the paragraph it's in) seems to have been copied from AppleWiki, a Wiki about jailbreaks for appleOS.

"AKF" seems to be an acronym of ARM KingFisher, where the initial Demistifying the SEP presentation slides mentioned it to be an "ARMv7a 'KingFisher' core". Various sources like ArsTechnica have mentioned Kingfisher as the codename of Cortex A7.

Should we be bold and just change the text to say "SEP is a Cortex-A7 core"?

Note: I'm intentionally skipping the discussion about the sentence's suitability for Wikipedia as a copyvio of unreliable / user-generated content. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads} 11:28, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Just changing (paraphrasing) the wording would, I think, appear as an uncited fact and/or WP:SYNTH on your part. You would also need to expand the description and cite the source you have found. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-41275-62 (talk) 17:56, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Indeed. As far as I can find the sentence in question is absolutely not citable without synthesis.

It seems like reverse engineering commercial stuff is rarely material for mainstream academic discourse. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads} 06:22, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

October 3

What is the name for the phenomenon of children experiencing the founding of major web companies?

I thought I founded most of the top websites when I was five, but Sergey Brin or Larry Page appeared to me and said children sometimes think they founded websites that are actually much more difficult to code (they experience coding parts of the sites). Is there a name for this phenomenon, such as a scientific or theological one? --Michael White^T·C 05:47, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Speaking in tongues would seem most appropriate. Your post is entirely deficient in anything resembling an answerable question. Or even an indication of what the question might be about. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:53, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Delusion? Dream? —Antonissimo (talk) 17:31, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Google was founded in 1998, years after you were five. You could have figured that out without appearances.  ​‑‑Lambiam 08:55, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Seems to me that False memory, and perhaps False memory syndrome, could be relevant. —scs (talk) 12:17, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

22- and 14 nm process nodes

Regarding process nodes in semiconductor device fabrication, we currently categorize (read: redirect) 16nm process to 14, and 20nm process to 22.

There maybe exceptions: SemiWiki wrote two articles about TSMC's transition from planar transistors to FinFET. They wrote:

Source 1

TSMC took a different approach to FinFETs. After mastering double patterning on 20nm, TSMC added in FinFETs and called it 16nm. The density was less than Intel 14nm thus the name difference. Samsung 14nm was a similar density as TSMC 16nm but Samsung took the low road and pretended they were competitive with Intel. And that is why process nodes are now marketing terms, my opinion.

Source 2

[The] 16nm FinFET process technology is a bit of a misnomer. It was probably named by Marketing people to imply that the resulting performance when transitioning from planar to FinFET in a 20nm [would] be "between 20nm planar and 14nm FinFET".
Why 16nm FinFETS you ask? Two reasons: (1) EUV is late so a true 14nm FinFET process will not be possible by 2015 and (2) Customers designing mobile devices were not willing to wait for the power savings FinFETS have to offer. As a result, the current 20nm lithography process was modified for FinFETs, and the 16nm FinFET process was born.

Which means that technically some 16"nm" are 22"nm"s. This is messed up. Yet I can't cover these subtleties without actively violating WP:V and WP:OR. So instead, I present them here to see if anyone has any thoughts. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads} 10:54, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

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