From: Nathan Larson nathanlarson3141@gmail.com

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Bri dev@rlyehable.com wrote:

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Is there a way to list the contents of a category within a non-category page?

I think this will do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28Wikimedia%29#cat...

I would like to second the recommendation of DPL. This is a versatile extension that can do all sorts of page listing tasks, beyond what simple Categories can do!

For example, we wanted minutes of our meetings (which have names like "YYYYMMDD") to be listed in reverse-chronological order, so the newest meeting was always at the top. DPL to the rescue:

==Meeting minutes, newest first== {{#dpl: |category = History |order = descending |namespace = Minutes |columns = 5}}

produces: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:History

We put the DPL code right on the Category page, but it can go anywhere.

Another example, you can morph the page title. I find this most useful on the "Category:Categories" page, so you can get rid of the "Category:" namespace: {{#dpl: |namespace = Category |format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, |columns = 5}}

produces: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:Categories

Another example, you can include selected headings from pages into the DPL listing, and even put them in a table that can be re-sorted with a mouse click: {{#dpl: |ordermethod=lastedit |order=descending |category=Projects |include = #Project steward, #Need |includetrim=true |table=class="sortable", Project, Steward, Need}}

produces the table in: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:Projects

Try it; you'll like it!

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