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''This is just my quick and dirty takeaway from a brief dive into [[https://followthescore.org/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual| 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 '''<nowiki><DPL></nowiki>''' 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 (|).''--[[User:mbear|mbear]]


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

Gives us what we've seen already:
== Policies ==
<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>

=Proposed=
By adding the '''Help''' category to the list of categories searched
<pre>
<div style="-moz-column-count:3; column-count:3;">
<DPL>category=Policies|Help
mode=ordered
</DPL>
</div>
</pre>


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



=Notes=
* We can apparently use a parser function version (i.e. '''<nowiki> {{#dpl: .... }}</nowiki>''') 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.