Hi Courtney,
Thanks for the info.
Strange though that nobody has made this extension so far. The proper data
is already available in the {{DEFAULTSORT:surname, given name}} which we
should be able to keep updated.
Bjorn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Christensen, Courtney
> Sent: 8. februar 2010 23:07
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Order of 1st-2nd names of persons
> in pagetitles and category list
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bjorn Kassoe Andersen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 5. februar 2010 17:38
> > To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
> > Subject: Order of 1st-2nd names of persons in page titles and
> > category list
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on a wiki that include book titles and book
> > authors, all in the same name space.
> >
> > I want to be able to display a list of authors by second
> > name. All authors are in a the category "Author" and I use
> > the [[Category:NAME|SORT]] to sort by second name.
> >
> > The category list I get this way does sort as specified, but
> > each author is still displayed with the first name first -
> > which makes list hard to overview.
> >
> > Appears that I do have an option to change the page titles
> > for author pages to "[2nd name],_[1st name]" - but I'd prefer
> > not to do this.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Bjorn
> >
>
>
> Hey Bjorn,
>
> You can write your own custom category page extension, but
> names are a real pain. We've found that you can't ever be
> certain that you will always get names of the form
> <first><space><last>. There will always be apostrophe and
> dash names as well as people with more than two names. Since
> there is no meta-data about your page titles you are pretty
> much at the mercy of your authors. You may have a little
> more luck with Semantic MediaWiki since you could tell the
> wiki specifically which part of the name you cared about. Good luck.
>
> -Courtney
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