Last modified: 2007-06-08 16:59:39 UTC
If we could assign a default order to a page, the auto-generated index of any related category page could use it. the usage could be <nowiki> [[Order:Kohl, Helmut]] [[Kategorie:Mann|Kohl, Helmut]] [[Kategorie:Deutscher|Kohl, Helmut]] [[Kategorie:Bundeskanzler (Deutschland)|Kohl, Helmut]] </nowiki> The option of using a default order mechanism would reduce duplicates. Syntactically the default order (if given) could be overridden by <nowiki>[[Kategorie:xyz|Name]]</nowiki> It would be also useful for intersection of categories with (for instance) the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DynamicPageList DynamicPageList]-Extension.
pardon, the requested usage would be like this: [[Order:Kohl, Helmut]] [[Kategorie:Mann]] [[Kategorie:Deutscher]] [[Kategorie:Bundeskanzler (Deutschland)]] and so on I wish you don't have to repead the similar sort key.
This request might be related to bug 5116
I assume that where a specific sort key is provided, the "default" would be ignored?
Fixed in r18629. Use {{DEFAULTSORT:Something}}.
DEFAULTSORT is a bad name. It does not signal relationship with categorization in any way (except for users who know the software well and knows what sortkeys are). Could it be changed to something more logical like CATEGORYSORT or the lengthier CATEGORYDEFAULTSORT?
We can add whatever aliases are desired, but I'm not going to remove the one we have now, because I know it's in wide use. I'm not of the opinion that "DEFAULTSORT" is a particularly bad name, but...added "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases in r22839.
(In reply to comment #6) > We can add whatever aliases are desired, but I'm not going to remove the one we > have now, because I know it's in wide use. > > I'm not of the opinion that "DEFAULTSORT" is a particularly bad name, > but...added "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases in r22839. > If the effect of the default sort key is not restricted to categories I would prefer not to have "CATEGORY" in the key word. Where can I find the code or database structures responsible for having a default sort key? The Links r18629, r22839 seem not to be the full story? ("DEFAULTSORTKEY" seems to be more clear, but "DEFAULTSORT" is shorter.)
Sort keys are limited to categories.
It is stored in categorylinks:cl_sortkey, is it?
