Special:Whatlinkshere display could be sorted
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	Apr 4 2008, 3:42 PM

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Author: nicdumz

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proposed patch

The actual displayed list of Special:Whatlinkshere is a bit messy, since pages are being sorted by page_id.

With the current DB structure, it seems to me that it would be costly to alter the SQL queries to sort the results in any way.

This patch performs a manual usort() on the resulting set, after it has been truncated to $limit (the number of pages to show).

It does not alter which pages are being shown on each page : It only alters the sorting display on a per page basis. Namespace first, template transclusion second : The page is now sorted by namespace, and pages where the target page is trancluded come last.

Cheers :)

Version: 1.13.x
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:04 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.

• bzimport set Reference to bz13614.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Apr 4 2008, 3:42 PM

Well, the problem here is that there's still no ordering from page to page; sorting within the page would imply a sensible overall ordering which doesn't exist.

Further up the page, the array is ksort()'d. What if after that was done, a normal sort ( $rows , SORT_STRING) was run to order the list before outputting it. I might be way off the mark here though.

Sorting by page_id looks fine here. Note there are also filters to only get certain inclusion/link types.

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