Help:DPL

This page documents the usage of DynamicPageList3 (DPL) on Inkipedia.

Only information that is currently useful to Inkipedia editors is included here, but there is much more to the DPL extension. View the full manual for more help.

Galleries
Inkipedia uses DPL to auto-generate image galleries. This has several benefits:
 * Eliminates the need to update gallery filenames if files are moved
 * Reduces chance that a gallery is missing a relevant image
 * Reduces the effort required to add new images to the wiki
 * Image captions are organized in once place
 * Encourages editors to categorize images

Creating the gallery
This example outputs the following wikicode:


 * Parameters used

Captions
With DPL-generated galleries, image captions must be obtained from the file page.

On a file page, the suggested format is:

Name of article where caption is used
Caption text.

Another article
Caption text for that particular article.

To pull the captions into a gallery, use the

Debugging
Setting  will show the wikicode that DPL is outputting.