CountThings
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- Last edited 4 years ago by MLR
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- This page is a draft but has an approved version
The extension DynamicPageList3 allows you to include lists of wiki pages on any content page.
Contents
Application examples
You can view a documentation of all selection criteria and formatting options at Gamepedia.
This help page contains some examples of typical applications for this extension as well as a list of common parameters and their values.
List of subpages
The following code shows the subpages of the current page in a 3-column layout:
{{#dpl:
|titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%
|shownamespace=false
|replaceintitle=/{{PAGENAME}}\//,
|columns=3
|mode=none
|rowcolformat=width=100%
}}
Example: Display the subpages of the page VisualEditor imn the namespace Manual in a 1-column layout:
{{#dpl:
|titlematch=VisualEditor/%
|shownamespace=false
|namespace= Manual
|replaceintitle=/VisualEditor\//,
|columns=1
|mode=ubordered
|rowcolformat=width=100%
}}
Output:
Selecting pages by namespace
{{#dpl:
|namespace=Manual
|includesubpages=true
|shownamespace=false
|count=5
|ordermethod=title
}}
Output:
- Admin Manual Introduction
- Archive/Extension/DocumentManager
- Archive:Extension/RatedComments
- BlueSpice Layout
- BlueSpice Layout/Footer
Selecting pages by category
{{#dpl:
|category=QM
|addcategories = true
|includesubpages=true
|shownamespace=false
|count=5
|ordermethod=title
|mode=ordered
}}
Output:
Extension:DynamicPageList (DPL), version 3.3.2: Warning: No results.
Selecting pages with specific naming patterns
{{#dpl:
|namespace=File
|titlematch=A%
|count=5
}}
Output:
Show a random page in a category
<div style="border:2px solid #f6f6f6; padding:10px; width:500px; height:500px; overflow:auto;">
{{#dpl:
|category=Editing
|randomcount=1
|includepage=*
|includemaxlength=10
|format=,\n==[[%PAGE%]]==\n,,}}
</div>
Output:
Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceCountThings
Warning: Display title "CountThings" overrides earlier display title "Creating page lists with DPL3".CountThings introduces a set of tags for counting various metadata in the wiki. Available tags are: countarticles, countusers, countfiles, and countcharacters.
Inserting tags
Tags are added through the "InsertMagic" dialog by clicking on "Insert" in VisualEditor toolbar and then on "Magic word". In the resulting dialog, choose one of the four previously mentioned types of tags and click "Done".
Configuring the countcharacters tag
While other tags have no configuration options, and just adding them to the page is sufficient, the countcharacters tag must be configured.
After inserting this tag or clicking on an existing tag already on the page, a dialog opens.
Enter the name of the page for which to count characters. This name should include the namespace if the page is not in the main namespace. Next, select the mode from the dropdown menu.
While selecting the mode and page, a preview of the output is displayed above the dialog box. If the page title in the table heading shows the page name in red ("redlink"), you have misspelled the page name and the page does not exist.
Inserting tags in wikitext
If you add the tags in source code edit mode, use the following syntax.
<bs:countarticles /> <bs:countusers /> <bs:countfiles /> <bs:countcharacters mode="Words">ARTICLENAME</bs:countcharacters>
For the "countcharacters" tag, replace ARTICLENAME with the page name for which you want to get the count values. Also, "mode" can be adjusted as needed. For details, visit the reference page:
Related info
List of common parameters
Criteria for page selection
Parameter | Syntax | Description |
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category | |category=QM|Setup... | Pages in the category QM OR Setup |
|category=QM&Setup&... | Pages in the categories QM AND Setup | |
|category=QM|Setup...|category=Admin | Pages in the categories QM OR Setup, and pages in the category Admin | |
notcategory | |notcategory=QM | Pages that are not in the category QM |
categoriesminmax | |category=QM|categoriesminmax=2 | Pages that are in the category QM and in at least 2 more categories |
|category=QM|categoriesminmax=,1 | Pages that are only in the category QM and in no other category | |
namespace | |namespace= | Pages in the namespace (Main) |
|namespace=Help|Manual | Pages in the namespace Help OR Manual | |
namespacenot | |namespacenot=Help | Pages that are not in the namespace Help |
|namespacenot={{NAMESPACE}} | Pages that are not in the namespace of the current wiki page |
Output-Format
Parameter | Syntax | Description |
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mode | |mode=ordered | Unordered list |
|mode=unordered | Numbered list | |
|mode=none | Line breaks | |
|mode=category | Pages are grouped alphabetically with a letter heading (similar to category pages) | |
|mode=inline|inlinetext= • | Page names are listed on the same line and separated with a bullet point |
Sorting
Parameter | Syntax | Description |
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ordermethod | |ordermethod=title | Ordered by page (prefix+)title |
|ordermethod=titlewithoutnamespace | Ordered by page name independent of namespace | |
|ordermethod=counter | Ordered by number of page views (popularity) | |
|ordermethod=size | Ordered by page size | |
|ordermethod=firstedit | Ordered by creation date | |
|ordermethod=lastedit | Ordered by last edit date | |
|ordermethod=user,firstedit | Ordered by author, then by creation date | |
|ordermethod=user,lastedit | Ordered by last editor, then by last edit date | |
order | |order=ascending | Sorted in ascending order |
|order=descending | Sorted in descending order |
Display of meta data
Parameter | Syntax | Description |
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addcategories | |addcategories=true | Shows all categories of a page after the page name |
addpagecounter | |category:QM|ordermethod=counter|order=descending
|addpagecounter=true|count=5 |
Shows the 5 most popular pages in the category QM |
adduser | |category=QM|ordermethod=lastedit|adduser=true | Adds the name of the last editor in front of the page name |
addauthor | |category=QM|addauthor=true | Adds the name of the original author in front of the page name. |