DPL

From Sunshine Review

Dynamic Page Listings (DPL) are is a universal reporting tool for MediaWikis, listing category members and intersections with various formats and details. In other words-it will automatically create formatted lists of articles pertaining to certain categories.

[edit] How it works

The basics of DPL listings are that if you have a certain category, for example "Michigan News" you can create an automatic list of all the articles that include the said category. For example if I type:

<DPL>
category = Michigan News
</DPL>

Then I'd get:

• Augusta feud over records takes a smelly turn
• Bay City officials delay response to Times request for policies
• Chippewa Valley school spending under review

However you can add many different parameters to these listing controlling their output (aka how they look) and the input (aka what stuff from the article they'll draw from).

[edit] Parameters

For a complete list of parameters check the DPL wiki. However below are some common ones:

Parameter code	Function
notcategory	For when you want to filter stories. If there is a "notcategory" for a category like "Disputed" than if can filter those news stories from a list.
ordermethod	Determines what criterium (resp. criteria) is (resp. are) used to order the list. Example: "firstedit"
order	Controls the sort direction of the list. Example: decending
count	Controls the amount of articles listed

[edit] Examples

Newspaper feed

• See main feed

<DPL>
category=2009 ballot news
count=20
ordermethod=firstedit
order=descending
userdateformat= M d, Y
addeditdate=true
include=%1
eliminate=templates
format= ,\n¶* <big>'''[[%PAGE%]]'''</big>
</DPL>

Or to create a chart:

• Talk:Test councilman 2
• Organization chart sandbox

<dpl>
category = Sample councilmen
include = {Councilman info}:District:Term:Party
order = ascending
table = class="wikitable", Name, District, Term, Party
tablerow = %%,%%
</dpl>