1072114 - [feature] Categories sorted and displayed by title and not path

Status: NEW

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, enhancement)

Description

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This is not a bug, more of a feature request.

Let's take a concrete example
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Category:Web_Compatibility

This is a classical category page. I manage to change the sorting order by relying on MediaWiki feature for sorting Categories.

For example Compatibility/Guide is not under "C" but "G", because in the page I added

[[Category:Web Compatibility|Guide]]

This is cool. It would be even better if we could have displayed in the category page, the term "Guide" instead of "Compatibility/Guide". All these paths become very noisy for a reader.

Comment 1

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

This is one of the known drawbacks of using subpages to the extent we do. 

We don't have a way to modify the display of subpages with a simple change of configuration options.

There might be an extension that can be made to do this, such as Semantic Mediawiki[1] or DynamicPageList[2]. We'll have to do some research.

Regarding the sort order, you can use {{DEFAULTSORTKEY}} magic word in conjunction with {{SUBPAGENAME}}. Adding {{DEFAULTSORTKEY:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} to any page or template will set the sort key to just subpage. Same with [[Category:CategoryName|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]].

[1] http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Replace_list_of_pages_in_a_Category_by_a_semantic_query
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28third-party%29