So in this scenario, are all categories planned to be sorted via jyupting?
If so, we could make a collation, in which case categories would
automatically be sorted that way, and you would just put the category in a
page in the normal way (by doing [[Category:Foo]] with no sortkey). The
downside
The additional information you provided was helpful. I still think the best
approach is to have an extension that returns the Jyutping value for the
article title. Let's say that extension introduces a new magic word called
{{TITLEINJYUPTING}}. That way you can add
On that note, I'll mention there was a previous attempt by Liangent to do
better sorting of categories for zhwiki, that unfortunately never got
reviewed so ended up bitrotting.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46667
I agree generally, that if you want to change the sort order for
categories,
Deryck,
I am not sure what you mean by "re-sort" articles, but if what you means is
that categories should be sorted differently, then I don't think Lua is the
answer, and it would need to be handled on the back end.
In general, also, I think that for a problem like yours, Lua is not the
right
Consider using
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadData
, keeping in mind that lua isn't really made with the usecase of huge data
tables in mind, so there might be limits you run into if your data is
really big.
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Bawolff
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:13
Hello Ambassadors - This technical question may be relevant to multiple
(particularly CJK) language communities so I'm asking it here.
What is the advice for writing a Lua script that needs to look up data from
a big table (~10k rows at first deployment, potentially increasing in the
future)?
