Wiki extension request for DynamicPageList

[1ec5]

Sysadmin

• [X] I am a wiki sysadmin

Extension name

DynamicPageList

Extension website on mediawiki.org

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList

Minimum MediaWiki version

1.23+

Supported

• [X] The wiki extension is listed as release status: stable
• [X] The extension is used on one or more Wikimedia projects
• [ ] The extension has versioned releases for the version of MediaWiki used by the OSMF, and for the latest version of MediaWiki

Purpose

Allows a wiki page to include a dynamic listing of links to other pages based on a category or other criterion.

Special install instructions

No response

Uninstall instructions

No database changes. If a page uses the extension to display a dynamic page list, the list will disappear gracefully.

[1ec5]

There is unanimous support for the extension among those who commented on my proposal on the wiki.

The Wikimedia Foundation officially maintains this extension, but it hasn’t received very much attention for a long time and there are some known performance issues. #1127 requests an alternative extension that has finer-grained performance controls and some additional features that would be useful to us, but that extension isn’t used on any WMF wiki.

[pnorman]

If there are no releases, how does Wikimedia specify what version they are using?

[1ec5]

Sorry, I may have misunderstood the checkbox in the template. The extension doesn’t have its own release cadence; instead, they put out a snapshot release for every MediaWiki release, as they would have to for an extension that’s being used on WMF wikis.