User:Mbear/RevancheDPLTest

This is just my quick and dirty takeaway from a brief dive into [the DynamicPageLoader extension's docs]. It almost seems like it's covering the same need as SemanticMediaWiki (SMW), but with a more limited scope. The <DPL> tag is pointing to the "Policies" category and displaying it on the page, Similar to the SMW query we're using on the Updates Needed page. We can add additional categories to the category parameter of the tag by separating the category names with a pipe character (|).

Current

<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>

Gives us what we've seen already:

Policies

1. Policy:Article Naming
2. Policy:BattleTech Essays
3. Policy:Canon
4. Policy:Citation needed
5. Draft:Civility
6. Category:Conduct policies
7. Policy:Consensus
8. Policy:Copyrights
9. Policy:Editing
10. Policy:Fanon
11. Policy:General disclaimer
12. Policy:Images
13. Policy:Libel
14. Policy:Moratorium
15. Policy:Neutral point of view
16. Policy:No legal threats
17. Policy:No personal attacks
18. Policy:Notability
19. Policy:Privacy
20. Policy:Real People
21. Help:Template gallery
22. BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
23. BattleTechWiki:Template index/BattleTechWiki namespace
24. Category:Uncompleted Policies
25. Policy:Vandalism
26. Policy:Verifiability

Proposed

By adding the Help category to the list of categories searched

<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies|Help
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>

Results in:

Policies

1. Help:About help pages
2. Policy:Article Naming
3. Category:BattleTechWiki accessibility
4. Policy:BattleTech Essays
5. Policy:Canon
6. Help:Categories
7. Help:Cheatsheet/Draft
8. Policy:Citation needed
9. Help:Cite errors
10. Draft:Civility
11. Help:Cleanup
12. Help:Collapsing
13. Help:Color
14. Help:Color/Accessibility
15. Help:Columns
16. Help:Commonly used templates
17. Help:Conditional expressions
18. Category:Conduct policies
19. Policy:Consensus
20. Help:Contents
21. Policy:Copyrights
22. Help:Create a New Article
23. Help:Deletion
24. Help:Disambiguation
25. Draft:Edit Summary
26. Policy:Editing
27. Help:Editing
28. Policy:Fanon
29. Policy:General disclaimer
30. Help:Getting Started
31. Category:Help templates
32. Category:How-to
33. Help:Images
34. Policy:Images
35. Policy:Libel
36. Help:Line break handling
37. Help:List
38. Help:Maintenance template removal
39. Help:Managing files
40. Help:MediaWiki namespace
41. Help:Metatemplating
42. Policy:Moratorium
43. Policy:Neutral point of view
44. Policy:No legal threats
45. Policy:No personal attacks
46. Policy:Notability
47. Help:Parameter
48. Policy:Privacy
49. Policy:Real People
50. Help:Redirect
51. BattleTechWiki:Research Desk
52. Help:Shortcut
53. Help:Sic
54. Help:Special pages
55. Help:Substitution
56. Help:Table
57. Help:Table of contents
58. Help:Template gallery
59. Category:Template help
60. BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
61. BattleTechWiki:Template index/BattleTechWiki namespace
62. Help:Transclusion
63. Category:Uncompleted Policies
64. Help:User Sub-Page Creation
65. Category:User space
66. Policy:Vandalism
67. Policy:Verifiability
68. Help:Verify
69. Help:WebArchive Notes
70. Help:Wiki markup
71. Help:Wikilinks

Notes

• We can apparently use a parser function version (i.e. {{#dpl: .... }}) instead of the tag version, which might be useful for consistency. (We're using those in infoboxes, SMW queries, etc.)
• The category name is apparently ignored for sorting purposes. Note how the Proposed output is organized alphabetically by page name.

User:Revanche so he can find it in the future since this is an orphan page otherwise.