2009/8/11 Petr Kadlec <[email protected]>:
> I don’t (at least not in the way it is expressed). If you want to use
> the page title as a tiebreaker, then add it as a new column to the
> index (before the page_id), not (as I read the original sentence) by
> appending the title to the sort key.
>
The page title is not in the categorylinks table, so we can't add it
to the index.

> Otherwise, you’ll have to separate the sort key from the title with
> some control character under U+0020 (to ensure correct ordering of
> different-length sort keys – you need a separator which sorts before
> any valid character), which would be messy.
>
> But still, I don’t see the point in doing that. You don’t want a page
> called “Aaa” to come after a page called “Abc” when you set their
> sortkeys both to the same value? Don’t do that then. Set the sortkey
> accordingly to what you want.
>
Exactly. When using identical sortkeys, you shouldn't complain that
MediaWiki doesn't magically know in which order you want to sort them.
You can make it predictable by using a (more) unique sortkey.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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