Last modified: 2013-10-23 16:58:53 UTC
The script for sortable tables is broken if a date contains an abbreviated month, see the example (tested on de.wikipedia) {|class="wikitable sortable" ! data-sort-type="date" | date1 !! data-sort-type="date" | date2 |- | 1. Jan.2012 || 1. Jan. 2012 |- | 1. Apr.2011 || 1. Apr. 2011 |} The first column sorts randomly, only the second one is correct. I tracked this down to > jQuery.tablesorter.dateRegex[1] < /^\s*(\d{1,2})[\,\.\-\/'\s]+(januar|januars|jan\.|februar|februars|feb\.|märz|märzes|mär\.|april|aprils|apr\.|mai|mais|mai|juni|junis|jun\.|juli|julis|jul\.|august|augusts|aug\.|september|septembers|sep\.|oktober|oktobers|okt\.|november|novembers|nov\.|dezember|dezembers|dez\.)[\,\.\-\/'\s]+(\d{2,4})\s*$/i Note the \. after the abbreviations, which shouldn't be there (otherwise the expected separator to the year is missing). https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/5bf45af50e6049ded2915f360fb1ed914f839286/resources%2Fjquery%2Fjquery.tablesorter.js#L484 is supposed to remove it, but it does so for the wrong month forms, namely for the genitives instead of the abbrevs.
Whooooops. It seems like I broke it in If758499f when adding support for genitive-form month names. Sorry about that, I'll submit a patch in a minute.
Change 91363 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński: tablesorter: Unbreak abbreviated month name support https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91363
Change 91363 merged by jenkins-bot: tablesorter: Unbreak abbreviated month name support https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91363
Fixed and merged. Thank you for the report! It will be deployed to Wikipedias on 31 October per [[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap]] (I think, we're releasing 1.23 and I'm not quite sure which version is which now).
