DPL Example 027

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Optimum performance result scrolling for huge wikis

This page demonstrates how DPL can be used in really huge wikis like WIKIPEDIA to allow efficient scrolling through huge result sets. The approach ios very much straight forward:

• We use count=50
• When scrolling forward we use ascending order
• When scrolling backward we internally use descending order but we reverse the result set for the user
• Each query takes a lower or an upper limit for the search as a selection criterion
• This criterion is set by an URL parameter which is deducted from information of the previous query: each query passes the first and last page of its result set to a scroll helper template.
• The approach could be extended: The scroll helper could produce a set of fixed links for the initial letters; thus one could easily jump to A, B, C, ...
• For convenience we repeat the last page of a result set as the first page of the next result set. Watch how the number of "remaining pages" goes up by 1 each time we scroll.

Extension:DynamicPageList (DPL), version 3.2.1: Warning: Skipping bad option 'all' for parameter 'redirects'.

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• 2008-04-24 nnn
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• Property:Age
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• Task act
• Task think
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• Abc/def
• Music
• Page in Test-1
• Physics
• Page in Test 1
• My very special event (2007/03/01)
• DPLMATRIX
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• Bruxelles city
• Town A
• Town B
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• Pseudo Namespace:Dummy
• 2007-08-24 jehhu
• Test Dummy
• Testpage
• Test transclusion bug 2
• Stachoo test
• The Colour of Magic
• The Smell of Future
• Bug Apo
• Article with underscore

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{{#dpl:
| namespace          =
| redirects          = all
| count              = {%DPL_count:50%}
| resultsheader      = ²{Extension DPL continue¦dir=%SCROLLDIR%¦pages=%PAGES%¦total=%TOTALPAGES%¦firsttitle=%FIRSTTITLE%¦lasttitle=%LASTTITLE%¦page={{PAGENAME}}}²\n
| resultsfooter      = ²{Extension DPL continue¦dir=%SCROLLDIR%¦pages=%PAGES%¦total=%TOTALPAGES%¦firsttitle=%FIRSTTITLE%¦lasttitle=%LASTTITLE%¦page={{PAGENAME}}}²\n
}}