On 2004.05.16 01:38, Brion Vibber - brion@pobox.com wrote:
Jim Laurino wrote:
I am pretty new to this stuff. Will the changes that Brion just made appear on the test wiki soon?
Already there, I installed it a few minutes after checking it in.
Yes, faster than I imagined. Thanks.
I have tried it, although not the way I expected. I think it will meet the need to put a series of articles in an arbitrary, definite order.
Navigation, display, and related issues remain, but the basics seem sound. My impression is that great progress is also being made in the ability of users to influence these aspects of the wiki through customization.
By default, the sort key will be the name of the article. That is, in an article "Linus Torvalds", a category link [[Category:Programmer]] will confer the sort key "Linus_Torvalds", and when you look at the list of programmers at Category:Programmer he'll appear under the L's.
If you override it, say [[Category:Programmer|Torvalds, Linus]], then he'll be sorted in the T's, though he'll still be listed as "Linus Torvalds".
I could be wrong, but I do not think whitespace at the begining of the sort key is trimmed now. I wonder if it might be wise to trim it? Personally, I find whitespace programming to be hard ;).
Categories can be nested in a tree structure, though the display is currently a bit awkward for that. There is not (yet) any specific navigation support for being "in" a category, though perhaps that's something that could get added somehow.
I have yet to experiment with the nesting. It does sound useful.
Thanks again,
Jim Laurino