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Tweak the description, as I've spoken to a number of users that still think that DPL3 can only be used to create lists, and while this is technically true, it is also untrue because there's a number of ways to have it appear to do other things (people don't realize that galleries are also technically lists, and don't think of tables as lists etc)
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'''DynamicPageList3''' (DPL/DPL3) is a powerful MediaWiki [[meta:extension|extension]] that can generate lists of pages, and/or certain data sets and statistics gathered from them, for display in a wiki page. DPL lists (the default output) are automatically updated whenever said data changes. The output can be extensively formatted (though use of templates or in-query formatting) to create a range of information displays, from lists to in-line paragraph content, tables, galleries, navigation and other possibilities.
As a basic example, DPL 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 possibilities.
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