User:Revanche/DPLLesson

This is just my quick and dirty takeaway from a brief dive into [the DynamicPageLoader extension's docs]. It almost seems like it's covering the same need as SemanticMediaWiki (SMW), but with a more limited scope. The <DPL> tag is pointing to the "Policies" category and displaying it on the page, Similar to the SMW query we're using on the Updates Needed page. We can add additional categories to the category parameter of the tag by separating the category names with a pipe character (|).--mbear

Current

<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>

Gives us what we've seen already:

Policies

1. Policy:Article Naming
2. Policy:BattleTech Essays
3. Policy:Canon
4. Policy:Citation needed
5. Draft:Civility
6. Policy:Consensus
7. Policy:Copyrights
8. Policy:Editing
9. Policy:Fanon
10. Policy:General disclaimer
11. Policy:Images
12. Policy:Libel
13. Policy:Moratorium
14. Policy:Neutral point of view
15. Policy:No legal threats
16. Policy:No personal attacks
17. Policy:Notability
18. Policy:Privacy
19. Policy:Real People
20. Help:Template gallery
21. BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
22. BattleTechWiki:Template index/BattleTechWiki namespace
23. Category:Uncompleted Policies
24. Policy:Vandalism
25. Policy:Verifiability

Proposed

By adding the Help category to the list of categories searched

<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies|Help
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>

Results in:

Policies

1. Help:About help pages
2. Policy:Article Naming
3. Category:BattleTechWiki accessibility
4. Policy:BattleTech Essays
5. Policy:Canon
6. Help:Categories
7. Help:Cheatsheet/Draft
8. Policy:Citation needed
9. Help:Cite errors
10. Draft:Civility
11. Help:Cleanup
12. Help:Collapsing
13. Help:Color
14. Help:Color/Accessibility
15. Help:Columns
16. Help:Commonly used templates
17. Help:Conditional expressions
18. Policy:Consensus
19. Help:Contents
20. Policy:Copyrights
21. Help:Create a New Article
22. Help:Deletion
23. Help:Disambiguation
24. Draft:Edit Summary
25. Policy:Editing
26. Help:Editing
27. Policy:Fanon
28. Policy:General disclaimer
29. Help:Getting Started
30. Category:Help templates
31. Category:How-to
32. Policy:Images
33. Help:Images
34. Policy:Libel
35. Help:Line break handling
36. Help:List
37. Help:Maintenance template removal
38. Help:Managing files
39. Help:MediaWiki namespace
40. Help:Metatemplating
41. Policy:Moratorium
42. Policy:Neutral point of view
43. Policy:No legal threats
44. Policy:No personal attacks
45. Policy:Notability
46. Help:Parameter
47. Policy:Privacy
48. Policy:Real People
49. Help:Redirect
50. BattleTechWiki:Research Desk
51. Help:Shortcut
52. Help:Sic
53. Help:Special pages
54. Help:Substitution
55. Help:Table
56. Help:Table of contents
57. Help:Template gallery
58. Category:Template help
59. BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
60. BattleTechWiki:Template index/BattleTechWiki namespace
61. Help:Transclusion
62. Category:Uncompleted Policies
63. Help:User Sub-Page Creation
64. Category:User space
65. Policy:Vandalism
66. Policy:Verifiability
67. Help:Verify
68. Help:WebArchive Notes
69. Help:Wiki markup
70. Help:Wikilinks

Notes

• We can apparently use a parser function version (i.e. {{#dpl: .... }}) instead of the tag version, which might be useful for consistency. (We're using those in infoboxes, SMW queries, etc.)
• The category name is apparently ignored for sorting purposes. Note how the Proposed output is organized alphabetically by page name.

User:Revanche so he can find it in the future since this is an orphan page otherwise.