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.
Read over http://semeb.com/dpldemo/DPL:Manual when you need info on DPL parameters.
However, it looks as if you are talking about the extremely ancient version of DPL which no-one uses.
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
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
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)
Peter van Londen wrote:
Dynamicpagelist is ordering according to date when a page is added to a category.
Ordering by alphabet is not a feature (yet), alas.
Kind regards. Londenp
2008/2/22, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DynamicPageList explains that specifying a sort order is possible, and it does appear to do something if you use "order=descending" or "order=ascending". It just does not give the expected result (a properly sorted list). Looks like a bug that needs squashing...
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Peter van Londen Verzonden: vrijdag 22 februari 2008 22:35 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] New features
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The only thing which would even be better, is when DynamicPageList could generate a list in alphabetic order.....
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