On Wikis with two or more content namespaces, categories don't look so nice because all articles of a namespace (say Help:) are grouped under "H" by default.

This patch introduces the option to completely ignore the namespace for sorting in category pages.

• a/includes/DefaultSettings.php

+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -2114,6 +2114,12 @@ $wgCategoryMagicGallery = true;
$wgCategoryPagingLimit = 200;

/
+ * Sort pages in categories by namespace first (e.g. group all Talk pages together)
+ * Warning: This will only affect newly saved pages!
+ */
+$wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort = true;
+
+/

• Browser Blacklist for unicode non compliant browsers
• Contains a list of regexps : "/regexp/" matching problematic browsers */
• a/includes/Parser.php

+++ b/includes/Parser.php
@@ -4866,10 +4866,11 @@ class Parser

• @return string */ public function getDefaultSort() {

+ global $wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort;

		if( $this->mDefaultSort !== false ) {
			return $this->mDefaultSort;
		} else {

• return $this->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_CATEGORY

+ return ($this->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_CATEGORY || !$wgUseNamespaceInCategorySort)

					? $this->mTitle->getText()
					: $this->mTitle->getPrefixedText();
		}

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Version: 1.12.x
Severity: enhancement