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Also, when the Wikidot API comes out, this new feature will integrate right in. Wiki admins will be able to develop desktop applications for their wiki users that will add pages with all of the necessary tags and the correct category. So, if there are pages set up already with the ListPages module configured, the users' new pages will go straight from the client-side application to the wiki and appear automatically where they should. It is features like this that make Wikidot numero uno among wiki hosts and will continue to give this service the edge in the future.

Thanks again for this awesome service and this fancy new functionality!

This feature has just been implemented in a new module called “ListPages”.

To list all pages from a category and with a specific tag, use:

 [[module ListPages category="_default" tags="news" separate="false" rssEmbed="false" rssShow="false"]] %%linked_title%% [[/module]] 

There are lots of additional ListPages features available: specify more than one category; specifiy more than one tag; sort the output, etc. — see the preliminary documentation for ListPages that is available.

It's easy to check your own recent contributions and recent posts and comments.

To do that by Wikidot member is more difficult: you'd need to go to http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/name-of-wikidot-member and then click on “Recent contributions” and “Recent posts/comments”. As far as I understand Wikidot does not provide direct URL links for that.

I wish to list all wiki contributions by member, this would of course include page creations, comments, and forum posts. What is the syntax for this?

When the Pages module, for instance, is used with the category option, it doesn't print out:

"List of pages from category category:"

[[module PagesByTag tag="news" category="_default"]]

Erich has written a documentation about the PagesbyTag module:

http://www.wikidot.com/doc:pagesbytag-module

Thanks Erich!

Going back to my original question, the reason I requested this feature is to be able to list pages by using more than one criterion. For instance, if you want to list all of the pages that are animal-related, then the Pages module works fine provided you have an "animals" category:

 [[module Pages category="animals"]] 

This can also be done with PagesByTag:

 [[module PagesByTag tag="animals"]] 

However, if you want to list, for example, all of the pages that are animal-related AND that are contributed by a certain person (John Doe), there is no module that I know of that can do this. It would be nice, therefore, to have a module that could list pages by using more than one criterion:

 [[module Pages category="animals" tag="john-doe"]] 

Having the functionality to list pages by more than one tag would also be nice:

 [[module Pages category="animals" tag="john-doe" tag="dogs"]] 

This last example would list all of the pages that are animal-related (in the "animals" category), contributed by John Doe (tagged with "john-doe"), and specifically about dogs (tagged with "dogs").

With this sort of functionality, the user John Doe could simply create his page in the "animals" category and tag it with "john-doe" and "dogs," and his page would automatically be listed on other pages with the above module inserted.

Also, if the Pages module is used instead of the PagesByTag module, the 'all pages tagged with "tag"' heading won't appear.

[[module PagesByTag tag="tag-here"]]

> does anyone know if a Pages module that lists by tags is possible at all?
In a post in to the thread “Page listings by Tags” back in October '06, Michal promised “I will work on the Pages module too.”

Why do you want to recreate the list of a specific tag ?

( you can do this very easy by using an "included" template using a variable for the tag:

The "resulting page" with the list of all pages stored with a aspecific tag is "landing" on a page on this URL:
(example: all pages with the tag "forum": on our community site)

http://community.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/**forum**

or use the (same) link here: | tag=forum

Again: I do not really understand the need for such a list, this is managed perfectly with the module tagcloud…

 [[module Pages tag="tag-here"]] 

— Shawn

And the time line to get such a solution can not be answered here… we can only wait for wikidot 2.0 and the upcoming features..

Let's say, for instance, that you have an article about dogs, and within that article you have a link to the author's page and a link to the page of the location the article is about. This works because both the author's page and the location's page will list this article with the Backlinks module. However, if you want to include a link within the author's page to that location's page, then the Backlinks module will list the author's page as well as the article.

So, in this regard, a module to list all pages by tag would be more flexible. But thank you very much for your suggestion. It is highly appreciated.

http://www.wikidot.com/doc:backlinks-module

You can than have on every articles of

• a specific author "abc" the [[Author:abc]] link
• a specific genre "genre-name" the [[genre:genre-name]] link

in an extra last line/block/header/section = this article belongs to ….

the specific categories "author", "genre" are not really neccessary, but makes it clearer…

and on the "author:abc" page there is after the info of the author itself the

[[module Backlinks]]

If some links a re"unwished" than you have to build them external ( long ) as http:…and the short tilte - long links are not inserted in the backlinks module…

Hope this helps as a work around ( this technic is like the "category" usage in wikipedia) until such wanted pages per "tag" are available?

EDIT: have a look on such backlinks module: http://community.wikidot.com/start-user

Let's say you have a wiki of articles. If, for instance, the Pages module could list by tags, you could label each article page with the tags of its genre and author. That way, you could make a page for that genre showing all the articles of that genre ([[module Pages tag="genre-name"]]) and another page for that author showing all articles by that author ([[module Pages tag="author-name"]]).

Also, when an author creates a new wiki page with the genre and author tags, if a page for that genre or author exists, the page will automatically be listed, thus simplifying the task of cross-reference.

It would be nice as well if each page could have a summary input by the author. That way, instead of the Pages module just being able to show the first few words of the page, it could show the author's own summary of what the page contains. Perhaps this could work like what is suggested in this thread.

 wiki-cat-1:wiki-cat-2:wiki-cat-3:wiki-page 

or

 wiki-cat-1;wiki-cat-2;wiki-cat-3:wiki-page 

or

 wiki-cat-1_wiki-cat-2_wiki-cat-3:wiki-page 

I would love to see this feature implemented, if at all possible.