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On Wikis with two or more content namespaces, categories don't look so nice because all articles of a namespace (say Help:) are grouped under "H" by default.

This patch introduces the option to completely ignore the namespace for sorting in category pages.

--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -2114,6 +2114,12 @@ $wgCategoryMagicGallery = true;
 $wgCategoryPagingLimit = 200;
 
 /**
+ * Sort pages in categories by namespace first (e.g. group all Talk pages together)
+ * Warning: This will only affect newly saved pages!
+ */
+$wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort = true;
+	
+/**
  * Browser Blacklist for unicode non compliant browsers
  * Contains a list of regexps : "/regexp/"  matching problematic browsers
  */
--- a/includes/Parser.php
+++ b/includes/Parser.php
@@ -4866,10 +4866,11 @@ class Parser
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	public function getDefaultSort() {
+		global $wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort;
 		if( $this->mDefaultSort !== false ) {
 			return $this->mDefaultSort;
 		} else {
-			return $this->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_CATEGORY
+			return ($this->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_CATEGORY || !$wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort)
 					? $this->mTitle->getText()
 					: $this->mTitle->getPrefixedText();
 		}


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