[Mediawiki-l] Showing part of an article into a table

[Jan Steinman]

> From: Juan Jes?s Cremades Monserrat <relicary at gmail.com>
>
> In the Main Page of Wikipedia ther are sections like "Today's featured
> article" which shows part of an article and a tag called "more..."  
> I've
> studied the code, but I don't undertand it. How can I do some  
> similar? My
> objective is show part of another wiki page in my own main page. I  
> don't
> need the aleatory selection of a page of the day. Thanks!

Not sure how they're doing it, but you might check out the DPL  
extension.

We use that on our home page to transclude a short section of a random  
page:

{{note|<dpl> namespace= includepage=* includemaxlength=600  
escapelinks=false resultsheader=__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__  
randomcount=1 mode=userformat addpagecounter=true listseparators=<h2>A  
Random Selection From Page: , [[%PAGE%]]</h2>,,\n\n </dpl>}}


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