Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:34:00 UTC
A proposal has been filed to sort list items (in an ordered or unordered lsit) and tables according to the first item or column (alphanumeric or by date) --- I feel we should extend the WikiSyntax to include a meta tag for specifying that a section is going to be a lexically sorted list, so that in whatever order Wikipedians add entries to the list, the list will always be rendered in a lexically sorted order. Support. I support your idea and would like to extend your proposal with a request for a function which sorts table column(s). Lexically sorting should be possible (difficult, because somehow language and country dependent ...) and I also need time/date sorting according to entries which have ISO dates in sortable forms such as CCYYMMDDHHMMSS . A tag could be an extension of the Wiki table syntax, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table#Guide_to_the_pipe_syntax --Nyxos 19:05, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've made a rough implementation of this, see bug 2001 which I'm marking this as a duplicate of. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2001 ***
