: Does MediaWiki have a News extension? Many CMS' have news on the front page, where e.g. the sysop/webmaster posts about down time and other important news. Often these can be scheduled, so that

@Frith620

The "dpl" (Dynamic Page List) extension can also be used for that.

We use the following to display a random page from our site on our landing page. With DPL, you can filter that to a specific category, or filter by myriad other means.

<dpl>
namespace=
includepage=*
includemaxlength=600
escapelinks=false
resultsheader=__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__
randomcount=1
mode=userformat
addpagecounter=true
listseparators=<h2>A Random Selection From Page: , [[%PAGE%]]</h2>,,nn
</dpl>

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@Sue5673885

Yes, you can use the #switch function to do this. There are some examples on this article - generating dynamic content with mediawiki.

The documentation on #switch is here: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23switch

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