The old DPL (For some reason called Intersection) is only installed on
Meta and Wikinews. The actual Wikimedia wiki such as Wikipedia don't
even have it installed.
The old DPL doesn't have an option for alphabetical sorting, and it
never will because the new DPL was created for the purpose of giving
those extra features.
The old DPL is only used on those Wikimedia projects because they have
need of some DPL functions, but have no real need for anything special.
However, the newer DPL is installed on Wikia.
DPL is common use on Wikia, not Wikimedia where it isn't under any
common use aside from a few wiki which have restricted use of it.
Wikimedia doesn't even make use of the DPLforums.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (
2008/2/23, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net>et>:
order= is a parameter to control the direction of
the order, not what
the list is ordered by,
To control what the list is ordered by you use ordermethod for what you
want, the best thing to use would be ordermethod=titlewithoutnamespace.
Yes sorry, I didn't mean order by alphabet, but sorting by alphabet.
Read over
http://semeb.com/dpldemo/DPL:Manual when you need info on DPL
parameters.
This is a further developed version of the first Dynamicpagelist
However, it looks as if you are talking about the extremely ancient
version of DPL which no-one uses.
Well, it is being used on Wikimedia-projects.
Yes, nice sorting and complex methods is part of DPL, however you are
using the wrong one. For the newest version of
DPL in use see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList
Are you really sure this is active on Wikimedia-projects, because in my
opinion this version is active on Wikimedia projects:
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList/old
However, there is another extension which may actually work much better
for you.
Your case looks like Semantic data would fit it much better. I would
suggest using Semantic MediaWiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
Thanks I will try it on my testwiki at home and if appropriate I will make
an entrance on bugzilla.
Using that rather than a category for every recipe has a number of
advantages.
* Rather than a category and a recipe page, you have one recipe page
which is used both like a recipe and a category.
* Using the semantic attributes you can actually browse the semantic
data on the wiki (ie: Jump from a recipe to a ingredient and find out
what other recipes it's used in)
* The Ask queries you use can contain info in a much clearer way than
DPL does.
* You can generate lists on things like, what ingredients are in a
recipe, what recipes use an ingredient, etc... Easily with just a
special page.
* SMW does not force a page into a no-cache mode, and uses it's own
table rather than a collection of existing ones. As a result for these
kind of uses it has a smaller footprint on your server than using DPL.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (
http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on
Wikia.com (
http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and
Wiki-Tools.com (
http://wiki-tools.com)
Thanks for the information.
Londenp
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