Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Showing sort keys on category page
Showing sort keys on category page
- Problem: Because category trees aren't made by one person, things like sort keys may be inconsistent. From the category pages themselves it is often not obvious when the sort keys deviate.
- Proposed solution: Show the sort key of every page in the category, maybe in brackets after the link to the page. Because most regular readers probably don't care about sort keys, this should be an opt-in (maybe through a gadget).
- Who would benefit: Wikimedians who categorise.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Jochem van Hees (talk) 21:47, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- This seems like a cool idea, but I think category pages would probably be overwhelming if it were on by default. --Izno (talk) 22:58, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, it certainly should be opt-in. Jochem van Hees (talk) 23:23, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- This could help in maintenance categories populated by templates or modules where the sort key could contain more detailed information about why an article is in the category. --Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 13:30, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- It is not the right place, but for persons sort keys should be given via wikidata to harmonize sorting in all projects in languages--Oursana (talk) 16:10, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- The rules for sorting is different in different languages, so it cannot be harmonized. And person names can even often be spelled or transcribed different in different languages. --Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Looks like an idea for gadget, not a MediaWiki proposal. Facenapalm (talk) 15:06, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 19:39, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support opt-in version EpicPupper (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 22:54, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 23:05, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 01:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --JopkeB (talk) 05:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 12:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:14, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ali Imran Awan (talk) 07:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 07:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support F. Riedelio (talk) 10:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 11:05, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JPxG (talk) 00:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Havang(nl) (talk) 15:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Elkost (talk) 22:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --MarieVirtuElle (talk) 01:43, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — MrDolomite • Talk 04:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rzuwig► 11:54, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Darwin Ahoy! 19:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Gonnym (talk) 22:08, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 05:18, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 13:31, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Oursana (talk) 16:05, 10 February 2022 (UTC)