On 07/09/2011 06:25 AM, Chad wrote:
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:23 PM,jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Sure you can say "not a MediaWiki problem, go contact the website", but if MediaWiki gave them the proper tools to make their templates, they wouldn't need to make such a mess.
What tools would you propose?
A smarter table sorter would help. (I believe those zeros come from sort keys generated by templates and hidden from most browsers by CSS.)
As it happens, I believe we've just got (or are about to get?) one. But someone ought to go through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sorting_templates and see just how many of them we can make unnecessary by smarter sorting.
(It would also be nice to have some way to specify manual sort keys, in those cases where they really are needed, through some mechanism that doesn't involve CSS hacks.)