Last modified: 2005-11-25 17:43:20 UTC
Currently it appears that images in categories are automatically treated as being named Image:Foo instead of Foo. This means that unless the link from the images is in the form of [[Category:Foo|{{PAGENAME}}]] the CategoryTOC template doesn't work, as all the images start with I. They should be sorted automatically by pagename, needing to explicitly specifit it is (to my mind at least) counter intuitive. Obviously links that currently specify {{PAGENAME}} as the sortkey will be unnafected. I can't see a reason why you would want to sort by the namespace, but if there is a need this could be done by [[category:Foo|{{NAMESPACE}}]]. This issue is related to [[bug:1502]] and perhaps a precursor to it, but not a duplicate.
I'm marking this a dupe of bug 450 because that would solve the underlying problem in a nice clean way. If you think about it, this generalises to every namespace but the "main" (article) one - why sort templates under "Template:...", project pages under "Wikipedia:...", etc? But at the same time, we don't really want to muddle the different kinds of pages up any more than they already are, which deafaulting the sortkey to PAGENAME would - i.e. it makes sense for "Wikipedia:Foo" to be sorted under "F", but do we want it to appear next to "Foo", "Template:Foo", and "Image:Foo.jpeg", or would we rather keep them separate in some way? The logical route, IMHO, is to split the display by namespace, and then sort by (and indeed display) only the pages' titles.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 450 ***
Pages from different namespaces should very rarely show up in the same category. One exception are images on the commons, which are mixed with gallery pages in categories. But images have a separate section on the category page anyway, so that would not be a problem.
