Extension talk:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)/LQT Archive 1

Should this be merged into Extension:DynamicPageList/old? Are they the same thing? Bawolff 06:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No, this is the version of the extension currently in use on wikinews.org; it is similar in purpose to some of the DPL stuff but does merit its own page here. --Carlb 04:34, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * extension:DynamicPageList/old and this page document the same extension as far as i can tell. All documentation on [en] wikinews is taken from extension:DynamicPageList/old (or the other way around, its not really clear). Bawolff 06:54, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Some questions: Thanks!
 * 1) Where is the documentation for this, given that it is not the same as any other DynamicPageList?
 * 2) If no documentation is available, where is the source? I can't find it on SVN, but Wikimedia projects are open source, so of course the code must be available somewhere so that someone can inspect the code and find out how it works.
 * --McCormack 13:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

The answer to my question is that on SVN, the lowercase extension names are listed after the uppercase ones, and this is a lowercase one. Once you know that, you can find the source! (/trunk/extensions/intersection) --McCormack 13:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Additions for use of templates
I've added a patch in bugzilla to allow use of templates instead of just creating plain links. Jeblad 11:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

How difficult to change output format?
How difficult would it be to change the output format so that results were ranked not based on what is newest but on alphabetical order of one of the categories (when showing results from a union of categories)? I'm not into coding myself, would probably need help for that.--Kassoe 07:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Usage is undocumented
At the moment two important questions remain completely unanswered by this extension wiki page or comments inside the code itself: We tried installing it and have to turn it off now. Given that this extension is highlighted as reliable and used by Wikimedia, it would be desirable to extend the documentation. Many thanks! --Vigilius 05:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * How to use this extension? Does it create a Special: page (I found none)? Does it act on a tag inside of pages? Which? Which parameters?
 * Given that the name is DynamicPageList.php, does it conflict with using Extension:DynamicPageList? A question about identity above was answered that these are different things, but the question about documentation or usage was left unanswered.
 * This exetension is installed on Wikimedia wikis and the documentation can be find here at meta, while extension:dynamicPageList is more complex. It seems that the extensions doesn't conflict (intersection one create a tag while dynamicpagelist one create a tag and magic words {{#dpl:, {{#dplchapter:, {{#dplmatrix:. It is a mess :S --Ramac 18:42, 29 July 2008 (UTC)