There are 2500+ Chinese characters in common use, compared to 26 characters of roman alphabets. As a result, in a category page, most indexing sets consists of only one member, losing the purpose of sorting. For an example see
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:數學分析
The community guideline recommends manually indexing pages by it's pinyin (spelling of characters by roman alphabets), that is, use the syntax [[微積分 | W ]], here 微 is spelled as "wei".
Mediawiki should do this automatically.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| [WIP] Make zh@collation=pinyin and zh@collation=stroke collations usable | mediawiki/core | master | +168 -8 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T32672 Use locale-specific sorting (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T32754 Use correct sorting for in prefix searches | |||
| Open | None | T32673 Implement central locale-specific, or tailored, sorting framework (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T32996 Change $wgCategoryCollation values to appropriate one for each Wikimedia wiki | |||
| Open | None | T30397 Allow collation to be specified per category | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T37378 Support multiple collations at the same time | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T72819 Category pages should expose the timestamp sort option | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T71417 Additional sort options for categories:: Usage (most/least used pages); Creation date (newest/oldest date of original image/video) | ||
| Open | None | T242908 LanguageConverter should work in category listings | |||
| Open | None | T46667 Allow multiple collations in same site and configure zh collations | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T170049 Chinese site category pages should be able to sort pages by Hanyu Pinyin |
I realized this feature can be implemented as a client side js gadget. Though paging will be broken.
A second thought is that, in my opinion no sorting will be better than current sorting.
Change 87273 had a related patch set uploaded (by Winston Sung; author: Liangent):
[mediawiki/core@master] Make zh@collation=pinyin and zh@collation=stroke collations usable