I probably did something to screw up my wikis, but all of them couldn't use the standard javascript table sorting function in MediaWiki (class="sortable). Thought I'd document a little to save future admins some work. If this is a common problem, someone create a bug and I'll look into fixing it.

The symptom was that class="sortable" was being ignored (tables wouldn't sort).

The way you make tables sortable is to add the table to a javascript class "sortable". This is done by (example)

{| class="sortable" ! ColHdr1 ! ColHdr2 |- | r1c1 | r1c2 |- | r2c1 | r2c2 |}

Table sorting in MediaWiki is done via javascript found in skins/common/wikibits.js in it's own section.

I didn't stop to figure out why it wasn't sorting, I just replaced it with the original source code, which can be found in http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/sortable-table/

Once you've copied that source code into wikibits.js, you probably want to change back to the MediaWiki sort icons:

/* You can change these values */ var image_path = stylepath+"/common/images/"; var image_up = "sort_up.gif"; var image_down = "sort_down.gif"; var image_none = "sort_none.gif";

In addition you shoudl comment out the following line (already done for you later with addhook)

addEvent(window, "load", sortables_init);

Hope this helps someone!

Jack