User:Claus chr/DPL
- Reference: DPL Manual
- See also Pipesmoker's notes and this page of examples
- Example UI on this Template:Catlist page
- Search on this page
All the examples on this page have been commented out to prevent the page from being very slow to load. If you want to see the outcome of a search example, just edit the page and remove the comment tags around the desired example. You don't need to save the page, a preview will give you the search results; that way you can experiment with the examples and easily restore the page to its original state when you are done.
Searching for pages containing a certain text string
Text without wiki markup
Enter {{Search|text}} anywhere to get the search results in the form of links. Here text can be plain text or a perl like regexp. Be careful to escape regexp meta characters. If the searched text contain wiki markup this template may nor give the desired results; see the next section.
The Search template searches only the main namespace, and only original English pages.
Example: To find all English pages containing the word 'application' - possibly capitalized enter this:
{{Search|[Aa]pplication}}
<languages />. If the page doesn't have translate tags this directive have no effect, but it prevents the unwanted inclusion of content from the page in the search result.
Translated text
Enter {{SearchLang|text|lang}} anywhere to get the search results in the form of links. Here text can be plain text or a perl like regexp and lang is a language code. Be careful to escape regexp meta characters. If the searched text contain wiki markup this template may nor give the desired results; see the next section.
Example: To find all Danish pages containing the word 'program' - possibly capitalized enter this:
{{SearchLang|[Pp]rogram|da}}
Pages linking to a given page
Use {{LinksTo|full page name}}. The full page name must be the entire wiki link up to (but not including) one of the characters '|', ']' or '#' and excluding Special:myLanguage. Note, that space characters in names are sometimes entered as '_', so in searches you should enter [ _] for spaces.
Example: To find all pages linking to Getting Help enter
{{LinksTo|Getting[ _]Help}}
Text containing wiki markup
In case the Search template does not work for you use code like this to accomplish your desired result:
<DPL>
namespace =
nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$
titleregexp = ^[A-J]
include = *
includematch = @\{\{Remember\|@
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with A-J\n
</DPL>
<DPL>
namespace =
nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$
titleregexp = ^K[A-Z]
include = *
includematch = @\{\{Remember\|@
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with KA-KZ\n
</DPL>
<DPL>
namespace =
nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$
titleregexp = ^K[a-ce-z]
include = *
includematch = @\{\{Remember\|@
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with Ka-Kz but not Kd\n
</DPL>
<DPL>
namespace =
nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$
titleregexp = ^Kd
include = *
includematch = @\{\{Remember\|@
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with Kd\n
</DPL>
<DPL>
namespace =
nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$
titleregexp = ^[L-Z]
include = *
includematch = @\{\{Remember\|@
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with L-Z\n
</DPL>
Normally, you'd want to copy all of this into your page and modify the includematch lines to the pattern you want to search for. Note the two @-characters; they mark the beginning and end of the actual search pattern. You can use any character instead of @ as long as it does not appear in the actual pattern.
¤ do not work as pattern delimiters; perhaps only ASCII characters can be used?
If you want to search other namespaces than Main, just change that line. If you want to search the Main namespace and one or more other namespaces use namespace = | Other. The enpty string before the '|' means Main — never write Main; that no longer works. Other can be one or more other namespaces separated by '|' characters.
The nottitleregexp lines filters out all translated pages including lingering old style translations and should not be touched. The titlematch lines are needed to split up the search into manageable chunks. There is a maximum of pages that can be handled by the includematch search; if too many pages pass through the title filters the first ones up to the maximum number will be searched; the rest will be silently ignored! Currently, the maximum seems to be somewhat more than 500. The include and includemaxlength should never be modified.
Finding all pages not yet marked for translation
<DPL> namespace = nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$ titleregexp = ^[A-J] include = * includenotmatch = #<languages[ ]?/># includemaxlength = 0 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages beginning with A-J\n </DPL> ...
Find all templates using a given template
<DPL>
namespace = Template
include = *
includematch = /{{Icon/
includemaxlength = 0
format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% templates using the Icon template\n
</DPL>
Find discussion threads contributed by a user
Perhaps more talk namespaces needs to be searched.
<DPL> namespace = Talk | Thread createdby = AmirHP </DPL>
All English manual pages
<DPL> titlematch = %/Manual% nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$ namespace = | User | Draft resultsheader = Manual Pages: format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]]\n,, </DPL>
All English pages linking to a given page
{{LinksTo|Plasma/Panels}}
Kopete Subpages in 3 columns
<DPL> titlematch = Kopete/% notnamespace = Translations columns = 3 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, </DPL>
Akonadi Subpages in Danish
<DPL> titlematch = Akonadi%/da notnamespace = Translations format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, </DPL>
Archived pages
<DPL> titlematch = % namespace = Archive columns = 2 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages in the Archive namespace. These are:\n </DPL>
NoIndexed pages
<DPL> titlematch = % category = Noindexed_pages columns = 2 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages in the Noindexed_pages category. These are:\n </DPL>
Ignoring Deleted Pages
"As for DPL. If you hit a page with ?action=purge attached to the URL (i.e. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Latest_news?action=purge ), it will dump all the removed pages."
Remaining old-style translations
<DPL> titleregexp = .*(([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$ notcategory = Template notnamespace = Thread notnamespace = Summary columns = 2 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages (partly) remaining in old-style translations. These are:\n </DPL>
Pages with old i18n bar
<DPL> titlematch = % namespace = uses = Template:I18n/Language Navigation Bar columns = 3 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages that still display the old i18n language bar\n </DPL>
Pages with old i18n bar but w/o old-way-translated ones
<DPL> nottitlematch = %_(%) namespace = uses = Template:I18n/Language Navigation Bar columns = 3 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% relevant pages that still display the old i18n language bar\n </DPL>
Pages not updated since 1st July 2010
<DPL> namespace = lastrevisionbefore = 201007010000 columns = 2 ordermethod=lastedit format = ,\n* (%DATE%) [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages without recent updates\n </DPL>
Listing Non-Translation Pages
<DPL> nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$ titlematch = Amarok% namespace = columns = 1 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% Amarok pages, not counting translations\n </DPL>
List all pages in a specific namespace
<DPL> nottitleregexp = .*((/[a-z][a-z](.|-..)?)|([ _][(][a-z][a-z](...)?[)]))$ namespace = MediaWiki columns = 3 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = These %TOTALPAGES% pages are in the Mediawiki namespace\n </DPL>
To count translated pages in a specific language:
<DPL> titleregexp = ^[A-J].*/en notnamespace = Translations columns = 3 format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, resultsheader = There are %TOTALPAGES% pages (partly) translated to English. These are:\n </DPL> ...