Last modified: 2013-10-08 23:06:15 UTC
The way aliases are sorted is confusing. e.g.: uppercase word "Land" comes before lowercase word "book": Also known as: 123 Land book but it should be: Also known as: 123 book Land
Sorting is currently disabled. Item became invalid.
The list could be returned in sort order from the API, and by using insertion order in the UI that could make it possible to maintain sort order. This works when the whole set is transfered. It could also be possible to add an "insertion key" for the location to insert something if we are not transferring the whole list. Both PHP and JS maintain insertion order for members of objects, so it should not pose a real problem to get this going. Actual class is IcuCollation in Collation.php. The class can be given a locale so sorting follows the set locale. The generated sort order should be the same as the one used on category pages, so be aware that there can be errors. One common error is placement of Ø in Norwegian (see http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Kommuner_i_M%C3%B8re_og_Romsdal), which often sort before O in erroneous systems. Wikipedia now sorts this correctly.
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest" as discussed on IRC. For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]
