I've been recently using a template this

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Related posts:

[[\!inline pages="blog/posts/*
        and !blog/posts/*/*
        and !Discussion
        and !tagged(draft)
        and <TMPL_VAR raw_tagged>"
        archive="yes"
        quick="yes"
        show="5"]]
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Which I then call by doing this at the end of my blog posts on my ikiwiki install

<pre>
[[\!tag software linux]]
[[\!template id=related tagged="tagged(software) or tagged(linux)"]]
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It somewhat works, I was wondering if anyone else has tried to do something like the above to get "related posts" based on tags. The way that I have done it isn't very clever as it only links to the last 5 most recently posted items based on my parameters. Is it possible to "randomly" select a bunch of links from a set of user defined pagespecs?

I know that the [[backlinks]] plugin exists for this sort of stuff (related links), it just lacks some user configuration options.