Sorting of month names in tables should depend on page content language
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	Fomafix
	Feb 12 2016, 3:04 PM

Description

Currently the sorting of month names in tables depends on the user interface language.
Expected result: The sorting of the month names in tables should depend on the page content language.

Test case:

{| class="sortable"
|-
! number !! date
|-
| 1 || 1. Januar 2016
|-
| 2 || 1. Februar 2016
|-
| 3 || 1. März 2016
|-
| 4 || 1. April 2016
|-
| 5 || 1. Mai 2016
|}

Test languages de and de-at. The January is in de Januar and in de-at Jänner.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	DO NOT MERGE. Use page content language for jquery.tablesorter	mediawiki/core	master	+13 -0

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T219340: Remove wgMonthNamesShort from mw.config
T89561: Implement a CSS preprocessor for direction flipping based on the content direction

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Fomafix created this task.Feb 12 2016, 3:04 PM

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Also, the position of the sort buttons should depend on the direction of the page content language instead of the direction of the user interface language.

Change 270324 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader):
DO NOT MERGE. Use page content language for jquery.tablesorter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270324

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 12 2016, 5:35 PM

Fomafix mentioned this in T89561: Implement a CSS preprocessor for direction flipping based on the content direction.Feb 14 2016, 9:00 AM

TheDJ mentioned this in T219340: Remove wgMonthNamesShort from mw.config.Mar 27 2019, 10:18 AM

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Fomafix updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 8 2019, 8:26 PM

Krinkle edited projects, added MediaWiki-User-Interface (Tables); removed MediaWiki-jQuery-Tablesorter--archived.Jul 25 2020, 3:39 AM

Change 270324 abandoned by Nikerabbit:

[mediawiki/core@master] DO NOT MERGE. Use page content language for jquery.tablesorter

Reason:

I think this proof of concept has served it's purpose.