The search interface(s) offer sorting of the results by "Edit date", "creation date" and "Relevance".
Add the option to sort by page name.
Also, add the option to sort by page name within namespaces.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Feature | TheDJ | T403775 New search option: Sort results by page name | ||
| Duplicate | Feature | None | T331029 Option to sort alphabetically in Search API |
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Change #1184962 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tejashxv; author: Tejashxv):
[mediawiki/core@master] T403775: Add page name sorting options to search results
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I'm afraid this is unrelated to the Advanced-Search UI but something that is fundamentally missing in CirrusSearch (relevant for the Wikimedia cluster) and MediaWiki-Search (relevant for 3rd party wikis). I edited this task accordingly.
Personally I don't think such an option would be very helpful for anyone. MediaWiki already gives us plenty of options to get alphabetic lists of page names, e.g. Special:PrefixIndex and such.
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CirrusSearch may provide such sorting options via T40403. I believe that this ticket refers to the UI work required to happen when this capability is available from CirrusSearch, given that there is no such selector in Special:Search I have the impression that the intent of this ticket was to adapt Advanced-Search, @thiemowmde am I missing something?
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@dcausse I'm not sure what the question is, sorry. Please feel free to close this as a duplicate of T40403 if you think it is one. Unless this is not implemented in CirrusSearch there is nothing we can do in the Advanced-Search codebase. An extra Advanced-Search ticket for something that's currently technically impossible is not useful.
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Change #1184962 abandoned by Tejashxv:
[mediawiki/core@master] Add page name sorting options to search results
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We just deployed the required backend support to enable such sort options (title_natural_asc & title_natural_desc), re-adding the Advanced-Search tag.
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Change #1223730 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Support cirrussearch's article title sort mode
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Once the patch is merged, this should be announced in User-notice
It is now possible to sort search results alphabetically by page title. Under the "Advanced Search"-options of the search results choose Alphabetically from the "Sorting Order" options.
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Change #1223730 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Support cirrussearch's article title sort mode
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@TheDJ How does this sound for Tech News:
Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
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forgot that we still need to add the option to wgAdvancedSearchEnabledSortMethods. Didn't notice because I had an override in my LocalSettings.php
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Change #1254815 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE); author: Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)):
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Add "title_natural_asc" to the available sort orders
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Change #1254815 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Add "title_natural_asc" to the available sort orders
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2026-03-18T21:11:40Z] <dcausse> T403775: reindexing all wikis to enable new sorting options
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Late note, arriving from the news: lovely feature but it is odd that a basic setting like sorting is relegated to the "Advanced search", where the vast majority of users will never even look.
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@JnpoJuwan Thanks for the feedback. I would like to understand better what you mean. Where else would you expect it? Maybe this is a misunderstanding? I just noticed that the feature probably didn't make it for last weeks rollout and will only become available on the Wikimedia wikis this Wednesday. Maybe that's where the confusion comes from?