One of the demo collections originally shown in pivot was wikipedia article's sorted by category. Though the collections are no longer up, you can see videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZuFUZpEZ-A?t=2m30s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxCvdoXpwM
It was done before (albeit using a dedicated viewer which is now a silverlight control). So it can be done.
-Small
________________________________ From: Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com To: Small M smallman1z@yahoo.com; wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category
On 2013-04-10 10:25 PM, "Small M" smallman1z@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort content based on category? Single category views, especially for large categories, aren't particularly helpful.
Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had?
An HTML5 example at: http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/pass2012.htm
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No, there are no current plans for doing this. Interesting idea though. If I understand you correctly you want a category page where things are grouped by what other categories a page is a member of. I don't think such a thing can be done in an efficient manner for big categories given the way category membership is currently stored. -bawolff