Last modified: 2011-09-11 03:39:29 UTC
It would be great if MediaWiki could sort categories page belongs too automatically. For instance, on Wikipedia, it would make sense to sort Category:Wikipedia:... after all "normal" categories. Or sort overly generic categories (like "All movies") after more specific and interesting ones. Many templates put articles to certain categories, so it is often impossible to sort by hands. A possible solution would be to assign a priority to all categories (changable on category page) and sort using this categories. It would make sense to assign different default priorities to categories in different namespaces.
I meant "sort using this priorities", of course.
You may not resolve bugs, particularly as "wontfix," without an explanation. Re-opening.
Is this still something wanted given that Wikipedia:blah categories are now hidden with __HIDDENCAT__? If so, is it highly wanted? (In theory this isn't all that hard to implement, just add a parser func {{#catpriority:5}} which stores in page_props, and then is queried in OutputPage::addCategoryLinks. However it seems a little bloaty of a feature. Maybe could be done in an extension with the OutputPageMakeCategoryLinks hook (might require an extra query though)
