Hi Courtney,
Thanks for the info.
Strange though that nobody has made this extension so far. The proper data
is already available in the {{DEFAULTSORT:surname, given name}} which we
should be able to keep updated.
Bjorn
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Christensen, Courtney
Sent: 8. februar 2010 23:07
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Order of 1st-2nd names of persons
in pagetitles and category list
-----Original Message-----
From: Bjorn Kassoe Andersen [mailto:kassoe@direction.dk]
Sent: 5. februar 2010 17:38
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
Subject: Order of 1st-2nd names of persons in page titles and
category list
Hi,
I'm working on a wiki that include book titles and book
authors, all in the same name space.
I want to be able to display a list of authors by second
name. All authors are in a the category "Author" and I use
the [[Category:NAME|SORT]] to sort by second name.
The category list I get this way does sort as specified, but
each author is still displayed with the first name first -
which makes list hard to overview.
Appears that I do have an option to change the page titles
for author pages to "[2nd name],_[1st name]" - but I'd prefer
not to do this.
Any hints?
Regards
Bjorn
Hey Bjorn,
You can write your own custom category page extension, but
names are a real pain. We've found that you can't ever be
certain that you will always get names of the form
<first><space><last>. There will always be apostrophe and
dash names as well as people with more than two names. Since
there is no meta-data about your page titles you are pretty
much at the mercy of your authors. You may have a little
more luck with Semantic MediaWiki since you could tell the
wiki specifically which part of the name you cared about. Good luck.
-Courtney
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