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== Miscellaneous tips ==
== Miscellaneous tips ==
=== [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) DPL] ===
=== [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) DPL] ===
Because this is a wiki, there's a nearly Turing-complete scripting language and all its extensions available to find patterns in the wiki's IDs. The most useful of those extensions is DPL. DPL is the primary method used on the wiki for interacting with IDs both inside and outside of templates, and a familiarity with it is almost crucial. Take the following as a small example of what be done:
Because this is a wiki, there's a nearly Turing-complete scripting language and all its extensions available to find patterns in the wiki's IDs. The most useful of those extensions is DPL. DPL is the primary method used on the wiki for interacting with IDs both inside and outside of templates, and a familiarity with it is almost crucial. Take the following as a small example of what can be done:


<pre>{{#dpl:titlematch=____28|ordermethod=lastedit|order=ascending|redirects=only|mode=inline|inlinetext=<nowiki><nowiki></nowiki>, </nowiki>|notcategory=Not GameID|notcategory=Unofficial GameID}}</pre>
<pre>{{#dpl:titlematch=____28|ordermethod=lastedit|order=ascending|redirects=only|mode=inline|inlinetext=<nowiki><nowiki></nowiki>, </nowiki>|notcategory=Not GameID|notcategory=Unofficial GameID}}</pre>
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