ycombarnous wrote:

This extension is amazing, and unleashes the real value of Mediawiki.

I think it should even be part of the core code of Mediawiki, as it uses the
semantic syntax that's at the core of it (categories and links) to produce its
output.

I cannot imagine how a medium-large size wiki can do without it.
The only thing that needs to be carefully considered are the limit parameters
when installing this extension.

david.sledge wrote:

I agree this is a fabulous extension.

I'd like to see more of an API structure to the code. The manual lists all the parameters and groups them by functionality, but no such break-up exists in the code. At minimum, I'd like there be one function that processes the search criteria to get the results or groups of results in the form of an array of Title objects (or an array of arrays of title objects), and another function to display the results in a specified or default format.

I'd like to be able to build my own extension that uses the DPL2 extension as a base without having to hack the DPL2 code.

the0sandmane wrote:

The DPL extension is a great piece of work. Not only is the look fully customizable and looks far better than Category pages, customizing the contents of generated lists is extremely efficient and easy; there is a large number of different methods for selecting various articles, which results in a list of exactly the pages needed.

In my opinion, like stated before, DPL is a wanted extension for most MediaWiki's. Using the Category pages for list generation doesn't look all that, but DPL does the job.

Keep up the good work.

mediawiki_bug wrote:

Look extremely interesting. I was drawn by the possibility to list articles belonging to a given set of categories, but it seems this extension can be even more powerful.

Chmichels wrote:

YES, DPL is really good and very helpfull, and works very well. It should be included into the basic installation of mediawiki.

Good work!

DPL is the singlemost important extension for MediaWiki. You should make it part of the core code!

peu wrote:

DPL is important for my dayly work on MediaWiki-based wikis. The inclusion would be great.

brunomarcuzzo wrote:

DPL is important extension for MediaWiki and for me.
You should make it part of the core code!

roc.no1 wrote:

DPL is one of the most powerful extension and it is easy to use. Making it part of the core code (like as Tree view extension)is a great idea.

dan.bolser wrote:

Include DPL in MediaWiki NOW! (Or I kill the hostage).

Its that good.

It may be good for the exposure of this extension to start maintaining it in the MediaWiki Subversion repository. That would mean that one or more developers working on it would need svn access. See http://mediawiki.org for how that can be arranged.

Keywords: removed "need-review, patch, testme" (no patch, nothing that needs review, nothing to be tested)

Still nothing new? :(
Extension:Intersection is not enough. Go DPL!

timeroot.alex wrote:

Nothing on all of MediaWiki compares to this. This absolutely needs be included. I especially love the power of surrogate templates, and use them extensively - this feature alone makes DPL extremely powerful, creating beautiful tables with data which would take days to gather and compute manually. DPL can be used to find out how many pages meet a certain requirement (for instance: How many pages, ending in the letter "T" and using the template "{{!}}" are in the category "Category:Foo"?) It can be used to greatly enhance the power of variables with dplvar; dplmatrix and dplreplace increase the power of many other extensions; there really is nothing nearly as powerful as DPL. The ability to use surrogate templates for another page, at least, should really be part of the core code.

mrmax wrote:

DPL is one of the most interesting extensions for MediaWiki. I really would be happy to see it included!