Random author button is not nearly random

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I just hit it 10 times in a row and got only two different authors out of that.

[fnielsen]

Just hit 4 times and got four different.

[fnielsen]

I suppose there could be the WDQS cache.

Another solution is to remove it altogether.

[fnielsen]

It is also far too slow

[fnielsen]

>>> " ".join("wd:Q{}".format(random.randrange(1, 100000000)) for _ in range(100))

Followed by

SELECT ?author {
  VALUES ?work { wd:Q4099960 wd:Q90869473 wd:Q89343981 wd:Q59018288 w...
  ?work wdt:P50 ?author .
}
LIMIT 1

[fnielsen]

Now running: https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/random