Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:29 UTC
Example: You don't want articles and categories starting with "The " to be sorted under T, so e.g. "The Rolling Stones" are sorted under R then you would have to set the sortkey manually. If you have more rules you have to keep them all in mind and it's actually useless effort for most of the standard cases. Instead of keeping all those rules in mind / adding and fixing manually set sortkeys it would be more efficent to define some "Ignore beginning of sortkey" rules. The blanks in my examples are important. Global for all: Enable defining wgIgnoreSortKeyBeginning arrays in LocalSettings so it aplies for pages in all categories. Useful Examples: "The ", "A ", "Le ". Per category: Sometimes a global makes no sense, e.g. when you have a category "Clubs" listing subcategories of Club names. You will have a lot of Club names that start with "Club .." and you don't want to have "Club Foo" listed under C but F. So setting an ignore rule for "Club " into the category page would be nice. "The Super Club" would still be listed under S cos of the global. Setting a manual sortkey would override both ignore settings. This would save so a lot manual work :) Please don't argue that Wikipedia is manually sorted already :D
Somebody please close this as WONTFIX. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #1) > Somebody please close this as WONTFIX. Thanks. You can do that yourself.
ah, it hides behind "RESOLVED"
