On 22 July 2010 17:34, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:34 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Please don't remove the feature where the first letter of the sort key is displayed in the rendered category page, and if necessary add what it takes to keep it. There are scripts where this will be a hard problem, but it's still much-used and much-loved in those where it isn't.
Is it? What use does it serve? We don't have it for any other type of list. We have zillions of types of page lists, and category pages are the only ones that have the first letter displayed. It makes the columns uneven, and is completely crazy for some scripts (like CJK, AFAICT).
I'm basing this claim on the remarkable effort people go to to get things to sort on the category page *just right*. People clearly use this feature, and work hard to use it.
Take it to the VP (technical) on en:wp and I would be amazed if people don't protest hugely at the prospect of it disappearing. Maybe I'm wrong, but asking the users would be a good idea first.
- d.