https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

Daniel Werner <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Daniel Werner <[email protected]> 2012-10-05 13:30:30 UTC ---
This would indeed be a nice extension but it could break existing, well
calculated and intended behavior.

Think of a table displaying some images in table cells (including descriptions
in the alt attributes) and some text behind the pictures.
So far, the column sorted on the cell text, ignoring the images alt attributes
which could have been intended behavior.
Now, with your change, suddenly the pictures would be a factor in the sorting.
The sorting would change because of the alt tags which were not intended as
sort keys originally.

One thing I can think of right now to avoid this would be to add a config
option for the sorter to explicitly allow enabling this behavior for images.
Could be handy to allow a finer grained config var which allows to either:
1. ignore alt tags (default)
2. concatinate alt tags and surrounding text
3. use alt tags only

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