Manual

DynamicPageList3 (DPL/DPL3) is a powerful MediaWiki extension that can generate lists of pages, and/or certain data and statistics gathered from them, for display in a wiki page. DPL lists are automatically updated whenever said data changes.

As a basic example, DPL can be used to insert, in a wiki page, an always-current list of all pages of a particular category. The data displayed may be selected and sorted based on factors like author, namespace, date, name pattern, usage of templates, or references to other articles, with a variety of custom formatting possibilities.

Configuration
DPL3 has a variety of configuration settings that can be used, as well as a number of defaults that are important to note. Settings should be defined before enabling the extension.


 * Please see DPL3 configuration on MediaWiki for a full list of possible configuration options.

Limiting results and resource consumption
To prevent a DPL3 query from returning huge output (or consuming too many resources) the following configuration variables are noteworthy:
 * – Limits the amount of time (in milliseconds) allowed for database queries.
 * – Limits the number of categories allowed in queries (default is 4).
 * – Limits the number of results returned in a query (default is 500).
 * – Causes DPL3 to only run from protected pages (if set to true), which can aid administrators having problems with malicous user activity resulting in computationally expensive queries.

Functional richness
DynamicPageList3 has different levels of functional richness, which can be configured as needed.


 * – Provides functionality equivalent to Wikimedia's DynamicPageList (also known as Intersection).
 * – Adds additional parameters for formatting.
 * – Adds features (performance equivalent) for pagelinks and templates.
 * – Allows more-expensive inclusion features, such as queries on revision level, and regular expression queries (default).
 * – Permits potentially dangerous and exotic batch delete and update operations; not recommended for public websites. Also includes extra debugging parameters for development and testing.

Usage

 * General usage and invocation syntax

Primary DPL module
These sections contain documentation on DPL's primary module,. This is the DPL functionality used most often, and has a wide range of powerful coding options.
 * Criteria for page selection
 * Controlling output format
 * Controlling output order
 * Controlling output volume
 * Other parameters

Complete DPL Manual Table of Contents
For the legacy Table of Contents, see Parameter Quick Reference.

Other DPL modules
These sections detail some additional functions provided by the DPL extension.
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Examples
See Examples for a complete list of examples.