Aryeh Gregor hett schreven: > This would absolutely be possible as a "mostly works" solution for > category sorting. It would mostly just need to have the appropriate > code written. The only serious problem with it is that if the rules > for automatic default sorting changed, a script of some sort would > probably have to reparse all pages in some cases to figure out the > original sort key provided, which would be kind of expensive. > > Of course, this solution is actually woefully incomplete even for > German. It only affects category pages, not the zillion other places > where pages are sorted by names (Special:AllPages, etc.). But it > would be a reasonable step forward if anyone wanted to do the coding > required. > If I continue my plain layman approach, I would add a new unique column "page_sortkey" to the table "page", that consists of the (uppercased, str_replaced as described in my previous post, and with whatever replacements else necessary to make it sort properly) pagename, " " (two whitespaces) as separator, and the page_id of the page. The page_id adds uniqueness, the two whitespaces make short words always sort before long words, as " " is the first character byte-order-wise and two whitespaces can never occur in page titles.
Special:Allpages would then "ORDER BY 'page_sortkey'" instead of "ORDER BY 'page_title'". If the (language-specific) function that converts the pagename to the sortkey string is good, that should make Allpages sort properly. The only remaining problem would be that pairs like "Günther" and "Gunther" would always sort according to the page_id instead of first "Gunther" and then "Günther". Could perhaps be solved by also making the strpos of the first character that was replaced by our function part of the sortkey, but I guess that would be over the top ;-) But most likely I missed some problem, that makes this not work. Marcus Buck User:Slomox _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
