Extension:Newest Pages

The Newest Pages extension provides a flexible dual-use special page which lists the most recently created pages on the wiki. This code doesn't use the recentchanges table, and so items do not expire, as with Special:Newpages.

Requirements
The Newest Pages extension requires MediaWiki 1.6.0 or later.

Note
The developer and former maintainer of this extension, Rob Church, is no longer an active MediaWiki developer. The final version of this extension which can be considered released/approved by him is that of r23533. Users experiencing problems with the latest files may wish to try this version; this affects users of pre-1.11 wikis in particular.

Installation

 * 1) Check out all extension files from Subversion and place them in a NewestPages subdirectory within your MediaWiki extensions directory
 * 2) Add the line following line to your LocalSettings.php file:

Installation can be verified through the Special:Version page on the wiki.

Usage
The list can be accessed as a conventional special page, or through inclusion into another page.

Special page
The special page is located at Special:Newestpages and provides a full interface to filter according to namespace, limit the number of results, and toggle the inclusion of redirect pages.

Inclusion
You can include a list of pages into another page using the inclusion mechanism, e.g.



will produce a list of the newest pages in the User namespace. To select the main namespace, use - as the namespace name, e.g.



You can also limit the number of results listed, e.g.



will produce a list of (at most) the five newest articles.