Author: bluehairedlawyer

Description:
A column which should sort numerically but which contains even one non-numeric element will not sort correctly or will produce strange results. It seems to sort numerically but leaves lots of numbers out of place at the bottom of the table.

This appears to be caused by recent diff:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/common/wikibits.js?r1=42576&r2=42715

which allows ts_parseFloat to return a non-numeric value. This is rather pointless as the return value isn't see by anything other than javascript's table.sort() which doesn't appear to like it very much. Although browsers could handle this better, it affects (as far as I can see) Firefox and Safari.

For a (clearer) example see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blue-Haired_Lawyer/sandbox2

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita