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The extension DynamicPageList3 allows you to display lists of wiki pages on other pages. In addition, individual page sections from one wiki page can be included (=transcluded) in another page.

Examples

You can view a documentation of all selection criteria and formatting options at Gamepedia.

This help page contains some typical examples as well as a list of common parameters and their values.

Transcluding page sections

To display a section of one wiki page on another page, provide the page name (title) and the section header (include) as parameters:

{{#dpl:|title=Manual:Semantic_MediaWiki|include=#Defining attributes}}

List of subpages

The following code shows the subpages of the current page in a 3-column layout:

{{#dpl:
|titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%
|shownamespace=false
|replaceintitle=/{{PAGENAME}}\//,
|columns=3
|mode=none
|rowcolformat=width=100%
}}

Example: Display the subpages of the page VisualEditor in the namespace Manual in a 1-column layout:

{{#dpl:
|titlematch=VisualEditor/%  
|shownamespace=false
|namespace= Manual
|replaceintitle=/VisualEditor\//,
|columns=1
|mode=unordered
|rowcolformat=width=100%
}}

Output:

If you want to limit the output to the first level of subpages, you can add:

|nottitlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%/%

Selecting pages by namespace

{{#dpl:
  |namespace=Manual
  |includesubpages=true
  |shownamespace=false
  |count=5
  |ordermethod=title
}}

Output:

• Admin Manual Introduction
• All topics
• Content organisation
• Content organization
• Create Pages

Selecting pages by category

{{#dpl:
  |category=Editing
  |addcategories=true
  |includesubpages=true
  |shownamespace=false
  |count=5
  |ordermethod=title
  |mode=ordered  
}}

Output:

1. Create Pages . . Categories: Editing
2. Create pages . . Categories: Editing
3. Delete article . . Categories: Editing
4. Extension/BlueSpiceCategoryCheck . . Categories: Advanced | Editing
5. Extension/BlueSpiceContextMenu . . Categories: Editing

Selecting pages with specific naming patterns

{{#dpl:
 |namespace=File
 |titlematch=A%
 |count=5
 }}

Output:

• File:Anhang-en.png
• File:Attribut-erstellen1-EN.png
• File:Attribut-erstellen2-EN.png
• File:Attribute-spezialseite-EN.png
• File:Aufbau des Dockercontainers.drawio.png

List of common parameters

Criteria for page selection

Output-Format

Sorting

Display of meta data

Disabling automatically generated DPL categories

This extension is creating some sometimes unwanted automatic system categories that are then displayed on each wiki page that includes a DPL parser function.

To hide these categories, follow these steps:

1. Go to page Special:TrackingCategories in your wiki
2. Click on dpl-parserfunc-tracking-category in the column Message name
3. Replace the text Pages using DynamicPageList parser function not wanted with a dash ("-"). The category will no longer be displayed on your wiki pages.
4. Save the page.

The system category is no longer displayed on your wiki pages.

See also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tracking%20categories

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