https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164
--- Comment #142 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2009-11-19 16:40:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #141) > The pageID was just added to make sure that the sort key was unique (actually > this is not a requirement), It is a requirement software-wise. If two categorylinks entries are indistinguishable, category paging will break. > and for allowing navigation from page to page > without missing entries or duplicating them across pages, Exactly. > but it is definitely > not part of a good sort key (this is the only reason why we want a unique id > there, but in fact it is redundant and is an alternate binary representation > of > the full pagename which is also unique, but which is completely unsuitable for > collation). > Yeah the full page name could also be used as a tiebreaker (from a technical standpoint we probably want a (namespace, title) pair instead, where namespace is a numeric value). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
