Last modified: 2013-08-28 15:34:42 UTC
Currently, the namespace aliases seems to be sourced by the configuration source and not by numeric ascending order. It would look nicer and more coherent if we could offer a numeric order there too.
It is possible, that one namespace has more than one alias, than sorting by number has not a very well numeric order. See dewiki: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases You can sort on the client, if needed, or must this done on server side?
Brad Jorsch tells me this is reasonably easy and should just need a sort with an appropriate custom sort function in appendNamespaceAliases() in includes/api/ApiQuerySiteinfo.php.
Change 74618 had a related patch set uploaded by Fantasticfears: add a anonymous function in appendNamespaceAliases for pretty output https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/74618
Change 74618 abandoned by Fantasticfears: add a anonymous function in appendNamespaceAliases for pretty output https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/74618
Change 79173 had a related patch set uploaded by Fantasticfears: add a anonymous function in appendNamespaceAliases for pretty output https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79173
Change 79173 merged by jenkins-bot: Sort namespace aliases by id in appendNamespaceAliases for pretty output https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79173
The change should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.22wmf15.
