User:Mike Dillon/Sorting

Discussions

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour#Category sorting guidelines

Existing guidelines

• Wiktionary:About Japanese#Sorting
• Wiktionary:About Korean#Sorting

Issues

• Sort keys
  • meta:Help:Magic words#Parser functions (DEFAULTSORT)
• Normalization
  • Diacritics (accents, etc.)
  • Pre-combined v. combining forms
• Case folding
• Mixed language sorting
• Category display segmentation (head characters)
• Category TOCs
• Unicode collation algorithm
• Performant implementation (currently database-level sorts)
  • How to allow different categories to define their own collations while using off-the-shelve, Open Source databases in a performant way?
  • How to deal with huge categories if the collation is changed?

Searches

• //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=sorting&ns4=1&fulltext=Search
• //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=collation&ns4=1&fulltext=Search
• //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Unicode&ns4=1&fulltext=Search

Miscellaneous

• User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/ancientGreekSortKey.js - normalization script for Ancient Greek, with and without case folding
• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6387 - Add ability to change category sort method on category page

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