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Create context-dependent sort key SECTIONSORT for use on Wiktionary (in addition to DEFAULTSORT)
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Hello. I’m trying to create a task for meta:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wiktionary/Context-dependent sort key. I proposed a new magic word for sort keys there and it is widely supported.

In most Wiktionary projects, a single page has several language sections, each of which has one or more entries of the same spelling (ex. wikt:en:日本). Currently, the magic word DEFAULTSORT works for an entire page, which means we cannot define a default sort key for each language in the same page. If we have a magic word for sort key for each language section, it will be much easier to correctly categorize pages on Wiktionary.

My proposal is the new magic word SECTIONSORT, which defines a default sort key immediately after its use up to its next use. By using SECTIONSORT, each language section can have an appropriate default sort key according to each language’s convention.

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Context-dependent sort key: SECTIONSORT to Create context-dependent sort key SECTIONSORT for use on Wiktionary (in addition to DEFAULTSORT).Dec 28 2017, 1:47 PM
Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.
Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.