DPL Example 006

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Create a list of articles belonging (or not belonging) to certain categories

You can specify AND, OR and NOT conditions for categories: multiple specifications are treated as AND, within one specification you can use the pipe symbol for OR.

Note that you must escape the pipe character when using DPL as a parser function. You can use ¦ insetad of | or you can define a template which produces a pipe character. 

 OAU members
{{#dpl:
 |category=African Union member states
 |addcategories=yes
}}

 English speaking countries, OAU or fictitious
{{#dpl:
 |category=Fictitious country
 |addcategories=yes
}}

 fictitious countries 
{{#dpl:
 |category=African Union member states¦Fictitious country
 |category=English-speaking countries
 |notcategory=French-speaking countries
 |addcategories=yes
}}

The above DPL command produces the following output: 

OAU members

English speaking countries, OAU or fictitious

fictitious countries
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