Sort namespaces by name (not by internal numbers)
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	He7d3r
	Mar 6 2013, 11:28 AM

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I noticed there are several places where MediaWiki shows a list of available namespaces, but they are sorted according to their internal number. E.g.:, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist
we have a select box with the following items (in this order):

all
(Article)
Talk
User
User talk
Wikipedia
Wikipedia talk
File
File talk
MediaWiki
MediaWiki talk
Template
Template talk
Help
Help talk
Category
Category talk
Portal
Portal talk
Book
Book talk
Education Program
Education Program talk
TimedText
TimedText talk
Module
Module talk

it is much more intuitive to have it sorted alphabetically, i.e.

all
(Article)
Book
Book talk
Category
Category talk
Education Program
Education Program talk
File
File talk
Help
Help talk
MediaWiki
MediaWiki talk
Module
Module talk
Portal
Portal talk
Talk
Template
Template talk
TimedText
TimedText talk
User
User talk
Wikipedia
Wikipedia talk

Here are some other places where there is a namespace list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages

Version: 1.21.x
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:22 AM

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

• bzimport set Reference to bz45771.

He7d3r created this task.Mar 6 2013, 11:28 AM

aravikn wrote:

Could you assign this bug to me?

aravikn wrote:

Could someone mentor me with this bug fixing?

Aravind: If you have _specific_ questions please don't hesitate to ask them either here or on IRC.

aravikn wrote:

Is it okay if I mail you?

I don't see much sense in relying on one person only in private, when there's an unlimited number of people who can help you in public.
The knowledge of the crowd is one of the advantages of free software. :)

aravikn wrote:

Where would I find the code to fix this bug?

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Ricordisamoa awarded a token.Aug 16 2015, 4:32 PM

I don't think this "bug" should be "fixed".
The current order is much better than a alphabetically sorted one as the most used namespaces are placed first in the list.

@Aklapper: declined?

Alphabetizing makes some sense to me. I'm used to the current order, but I'm not sure it's best.

In T47771#1547312, @Cainamarques wrote:

The current order is much better than a alphabetically sorted one as the most used namespaces are placed first in the list.

You can sort the "Non-redirects" or "Total" columns at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Page_count_by_namespace to see what the order of the English Wikipedia namespaces list would be if we used page count as a metric for "most used."

@He7d3r: Is it weird to separate (Article) and Talk? The others are grouped together in pairs.

matmarex closed this task as a duplicate of T146418: Special:Contributions lists namespaces by index number, which is not intuitive.Feb 18 2019, 8:06 PM

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