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'''DynamicPageList3''' (DPL3) is a powerful MediaWiki [[meta:extension|extension]] that generate lists of pages, data about those pages, or the values offrom template parameters used themvalues, for display in other articles. DPL3 lists (the default output) are automatically updated whenever the data it fetches changes, the cache expires, or the page is purged. The output can be formatted (though use in-query formatting or surrogate templates) to create a range of information displays, from lists, to in-line paragraph text/content, tables, galleries, navigation, and many other possibilities.

As a basic example, DPL3 can be used to insert, in a wiki page, an always-current list of all pages of a particular [[mw:Help:category|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.