Talk:List of Characters/@comment-5442458-20140323025207

Concerning a programmatic way of listing just the characters on this wiki, there are possibly 3 options:

Option 1: Use the &lt;categorytree mode=pages&gt;Character&lt;/categorytree&gt;  tag on this page. However, that would require adding a "Character" (note that this spelling is singular!) category (or any other name of your choosing) to each of the current character pages and making sure that this "Character" category has no subcategories. Since there are a lot of character pages, I don't know if the active contributors in this wiki want to do that.

(If you use this tag on the existing "Characters" category, you will retrieve all the subcategories, including "Female" and "Male" which aren't actual characters.  That is not what I would want displayed on this page.)

Option 2: Attempt to use the Dymanic List Page extension (http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:DynamicPageList) and possibly write a targeted query with it. (I cannot test this since the extension is not installed!)  However, this extension is not activated by default. According to the help page, it appears that the wiki owner must request it from WIkia staff.

Option 3: Link to http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters and just put a note her to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see a list of characters in alphabetical order. The Category page is programmatically generated by the wiki software, but it currently contains subcategories, so those subcategories are "noise" and not actual characters.