https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6948

Krinkle <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-03-16 17:44:22 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > Can the "Invisible" sort key be used to solve the problem on this page:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita ?
> > 
> > Currently if you sort by Rank you see 1, 10, 100, 101 which isn't correct.
> > Otherwise, if this is an unrelated problem should I file a separate bug 
> > report?
> 
> just to add a +1 to [email protected]'s comment, I noticed the same bug here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities_ignoring_external_components
> 
> sorting by Energy density by volume (MJ/L) gets you a couple of interesting
> sequences, including
> 43.5, 5.6, 6.02, 72.4
> 75.1, 8.8, 83.8, 9
> 38.2, 4.633016x10^104, 40.8
> 
> I can see mishandling the exponential value, but am confused as to why it
> didn't end up between 4 and 5, instead of 38 and 40. The ordering doesn't even
> make sense. At first I thought it was just ignoring the decimal place, but 
> that
> doesn't even work for any but the first string I copied.
> 
> I'm no coder, so sorry, I can offer no suggestions as to fixes, but it does
> appear to be a common thing with the sorting.


This bug is about category sorting not about the table "sortable" script.

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