My wiki has many pages located in namespaces other than Main. When viewing category pages, I would like these pages to be sorted by the name of the page, excluding the namespace. I know that this can be done by adding {{PAGENAME}} as the optional sort parameter on the category call, but this would require me to add this to many categories on thousands of pages, and also make sure that every category added to these pages in the future is done properly.

I'm envisioning a parameter that can be added to localsettings to change this behavior - something like $wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort = false; This would be set once for the wiki. This should be fairly easy to implement - just check the variable in the location where the category page is rendered. Does something like this currently exist? If not, how would I suggest that it be added?

Thank you!

Tim Doyle