On 9 July 2011 06:58, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/09/2011 06:25 AM, Chad wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:23 PM,<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sure you can say "not a MediaWiki problem, go contact the website", but >>> if MediaWiki gave them the proper tools to make their templates, they >>> wouldn't need to make such a mess. >>> >> >> What tools would you propose? > > A smarter table sorter would help. (I believe those zeros come from > sort keys generated by templates and hidden from most browsers by CSS.) > > As it happens, I believe we've just got (or are about to get?) one. But > someone ought to go through > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sorting_templates and see just how > many of them we can make unnecessary by smarter sorting. > > (It would also be nice to have some way to specify manual sort keys, in > those cases where they really are needed, through some mechanism that > doesn't involve CSS hacks.)
It exists and it's called data-sort-value attribute. And it's already live on Wikipedia as far as I can see. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
