Last modified: 2014-09-02 06:04:19 UTC
I'm working on a private MediaWiki installation intended as developer documentation for a software project. Part of the documentation includes explanations of various SQL tables, many with underscores in them (i.e. 'table_name'). Several functions and other aspects of the program use underscores as well. I've made a template that automatically corrects the display title of pages to show the underscores. However, it would be nice if there was an option that altered the link displayed in the category pages to reflect this, perhaps with some combination of options to: a) Make {{DISPLAYTITLE}} the default sort key b) Show category pages using the sort key as the link text rather than the actual page title. (Or the display title if the possibility of having a page's link not reflect the page's actual name is deemed a Bad Thing(tm)) c) Some magic word that could exist on the category page that sets the allowed/default behavior for page displays. This would allow for cleaner-looking category pages in my case as well. For instance, all of my database objects are Database/object_name, so Category:Database Tables could simply show links 'table_name', etc. instead of 'Database/table_name'
Hint: If there is no sufficiently quick or good solution to this bug, you can consider using SMW http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki and try to establish "index pages" or "directory pages" of your own using the SMW <ask> syntax. I believe that these would be pretty easily set up.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/68936 (Gerrit Change Ic1f61879cf5848f4ec6e61f0b80c24019d0e8a13)
Just discovered this too. If I look at a category of chemical formulae, none of the numbers are subscripted, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Molecular_formula_set_index_pages It also makes it difficult to see which pages still need to have pagetitle applied.
*** Bug 67569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Change 144411 had a related patch set uploaded by Florianschmidtwelzow: Add new Magic Word USEDISPLAYTITLE https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/144411
