Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5614349-20130302060830/@comment-3335785-20130302183840

DPLForum is based on the Wikimedia (controlled) Dynamic Page List extension. The Dynamic Page list Extension here is a third party extension maintained by someone not affiliated with Wikimedia. I assume there is some common code between them, and probably a similar query method used by both, hence both have broken at the same time.

DPL is not ideal for heavy usage across mainspace pages, if a page does rely on it, it can severely increase the page load depending on how it's used and implemented. I personally only use it for community based things, such as a list of all active discussions on my home wiki (I don't like DPLForum due to lack of flexibility), or for maintenance, such as a non-cache reliant Special:UncategorizedPages.

In the meantime DPL reliant pages are going to be unusable, there is a possibility of coming up with something that does the same with javascript/jQuery, but that could take longer to develop than this bug will be fixed.

There is a workaround for DPLForum reliant pages. Setting up a DPLForum hub page relies on a category all forum pages are in, usually named after the forum hub page. In the case of RuneScape Wiki this is the Yew Grove. Using Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Yew Grove will bring up the recently edited forums and hopefully allow you to keep on top of recent discussion. And just hope no one decides to do heavy maintenance.