Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26937472-20160323215130/@comment-1251315-20160324112519

Dantman wrote: As for me being the one to notify Wikia, I can do that now. But if it's been like this for several months, then several months ago when it broke, shouldn't someone have pestered Wikia about it? Clearly, expecting me to tell Wikia something is broken when no-one tells me it's broken for several months isn't going to work. They already knew that Special:BrowseData was broken for months and that was fixed without any prior notification. But lists in general are just broken: in fact, it actually reached a point where one of the previous sysops here had to resort to vandalism to fix the lists, since they're so cached in the system that they pretty much don't update any more. We even have to use CSS to hide the duplicate entries that appear.

Can't DPL just be used to list things in the infobox? Simpler, less likely to break and doesn't get stuck on the same entry for months on end: a quick null edit and it's updated instantly, whereas a null edit on SMW does close to nothing these days. I use DPL for some stuff on other wiki's with categories and it works out quite well on those wiki's (doesn't require the category page to exist either).