Last modified: 2013-04-12 22:28:38 UTC
Hi, First sorry if I'm wrong because I'm not a real techie guy and as you will notice my English is not perfect. I'm using an older version of this extension but I had a look at the current code and it seems that this is still the same. The {{DEFAULTSORT}} magic word (which can be used to change the default sort key of a category (ex: "Ete" instead of "Été")) is being overridden by the extension. The problem seems to be this line: $default_sortkey = "|{{PAGENAME}}"; As far as I understand, this line forces the sort key to be equal to the page's title and makes it impossible to set a custom sortkey. This is really a big issue especially on non English-language wikis that use accented and other special characters. Moreover I don't understand why you're manually adding this sortkey. If no sortkey is being set (ex: "[[Category:Examplename]]" instead of "[[Category:Examplename|Examplename]]"), the name of the category ("Examplename") will be used by default, won't it? I thought this was already a default feature of Mediawiki. Am I wrong? Reference about the magic word: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Technical_metadata (look for "DEFAULTSORT")
The relevant code is: # default sort key is page name with stripped namespace name, # otherwise sorting is ugly. if( !$isUpload && $pageObj->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_MAIN ) { $default_sortkey = ""; } else { $default_sortkey = "|{{PAGENAME}}"; } The "|{{PAGENAME}}" is only added for pages that are not in the main namespace (like file: or category:) The reason for this probably is/was *) (copied from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories#Sort_key ) By default, a page is sorted within a category under the first letter of its full name _including the namespace_. In other words: all Template:* pages would be listed under "T". It seems this changed with current MediaWiki versions - a short look at some random categories in Wikipedia and a wiki I maintain indicates that the default sorting is now by page title _without_ the namespace, but I'm not 100% sure. (Can someone confirm that? - also asked on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Categories) If you want to test, edit the code (SelectCategory_body.php around line 150). Please replace $default_sortkey = "|{{PAGENAME}}"; with $default_sortkey = ""; and tell me what happens ;-) *) the code for this was added long time before I started to work on SelectCategory
