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Would it be possible that I receive help from you on this code: http://pastebin.com/WWnNG96g?

Here is how it works. Using this function <span class="listpages">category (without category:)</span>, the script retrieves all the pages from the specified category one under each other in a bulleted list. It also makes them linkable.

Here is the best example I can come up with

* Page 1

* Page 2

* Page 3

so forth and so on.

What I would like this code to do (apart form what it already does) is to have options to retrieve pages that are in a category and are not in other specified categories. i.e. They are in category 1, category 2 and 3, but I only want to retrieve them if they are in the first category. In addition, I would also wish for a reverse function. i.e. Only if they are in the categories I specify.

That's number 1. Number 2 would be for the list to sort itself automatically on rows after it reaches a certain number. Example: let us say there are 30 pages in there. I would want for those 30 pages to sort themselves 10 on a row (so 3 rows).

Example:

* Page 1

* Page 2

* Page 3

|

* Page 4

* Page 5

* Page 6

Any help is much appreciated and I would be very grateful for it.

You can use the API:Categorymembers generator and then use prop=categories, so you get all members of a category and in turn, categories for each page. You'll have to filter on client side, though.

Example: members of Category:1847 deaths, with their categories

But that doesn't sort it on rows...

And neither does it make exceptions (i.e. page is in category 1, but is also in category 2 = don't show it).

That's what I said, you must do the filtering on client side. There's no API that does that automatically for you.

Well, but isn't there a code/function that can be added to the above script? It would be much easier to just use <span class="listpages">category (without category:)</span>.

Anyway, how is the filtering done?