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This website demonstrates the use of a mediawiki extension called DynamicPageList2

The idea of DPL

DPL is a way to create lists of articles which match certain criteria. Articles can be listed by name; meta data like popularity or last access date can be added. And there are also some powerful mechanisms to extract content from the articles and show it as part of the list.

In short DPL aims to be a universal report generator for MediaWiki.

Assume that you have written some articles about countries. Typically these articles will have three things in common

• all articles will belong to a common category
• They will have a similar chapter structure, i.e. they will contain sections named 'Religion' or 'History'
• They will use a template which is used to present highly structured short data items ('Capital', 'Inhabitants', ..) in a nice way (e.g. as a wikitable)

of In big wikis it is useful to automatically generate lists of articles (pages) which have something in common. The classic approach of MediaWiki to this is a system of categories. Although it is possible to assign an article to several categories the normal way to find an article (aprat from full text search or direct links to the article) is a list of articles which belong to one category.

• DPL allows to list articles by a logical expression on their catgeories (AND, OR, NOT)

Another way to find an article is the "What links here" button.

• DPL allows to list articles which do link or do not link to a certain other article.

groups you to list articles which belong to more than one category or to one of several categories

Subcategories have been added and hierarchical The only kind of list you can get It is easy to get lost in a wiki. It is easy to create structures which are similar bit not identical

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Country	Official Name	Capital	Dial Code	History	Religion
DPL Example 007 main page 1
Nigunda Republic of Nigunda Capital Bamitogoo phone prefix 237 see the country list ..	some facts about religious groups in Nigunda; some other facts about religious groups in Nigunda;
Nigunda Test Republic of Nigunda Test Capital Bamitogoo Test phone prefix 237 see the country list ..	Nigunda Test History - Chapter Sequence in the article doesn´t matter for DPL .. some facts about religious groups in Nigunda; some other facts about religious groups in Nigunda Test;
Somango Somango Island Capital Aaaabququque phone prefix 224 see the country list ..	a text on the history of Somango; a text on the history of Somango; a text on the history of Somango; some facts about religion in Somango