Huh? lol...

I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with
the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as
"Einstein, Albert" on the category name?

Dave

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:

> David Di Biase schreef:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though
> obvious
> > in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the
> best
> > solution for integration is. Here they are briefly:
> >
> >    - They have a list of authors and animators and would like to sort
> them
> >    in a category by last name first. All the articles currently created
> begin
> >    with first and last. I realised that there is a transclusion option
> called
> >    {{DEFAULTSORT:}} which lets you define its sort value. The problem is,
> I'm
> >    not sure how to invert and display the name on the category page with
> the
> >    inverse. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category doesn't tell me
> >    much other than about the default sort value.
> Just use {{DEFAULTSORT:Einstein, Albert}} on the page about Albert
> Einstein. There's no way of doing this automatically, partly because the
> software wouldn't know what to do with names like Hillary Rodham Clinton
> (is Rodham a middle name or a surname?).
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>
>
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