https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6948
Krinkle <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- 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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
