> -----Original Message----- > From: Bjorn Kassoe Andersen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 5. februar 2010 17:38 > To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' > Subject: Order of 1st-2nd names of persons in page titles and > category list > > Hi, > > I'm working on a wiki that include book titles and book > authors, all in the same name space. > > I want to be able to display a list of authors by second > name. All authors are in a the category "Author" and I use > the [[Category:NAME|SORT]] to sort by second name. > > The category list I get this way does sort as specified, but > each author is still displayed with the first name first - > which makes list hard to overview. > > Appears that I do have an option to change the page titles > for author pages to "[2nd name],_[1st name]" - but I'd prefer > not to do this. > > Any hints? > > > Regards > Bjorn >
Hey Bjorn, You can write your own custom category page extension, but names are a real pain. We've found that you can't ever be certain that you will always get names of the form <first><space><last>. There will always be apostrophe and dash names as well as people with more than two names. Since there is no meta-data about your page titles you are pretty much at the mercy of your authors. You may have a little more luck with Semantic MediaWiki since you could tell the wiki specifically which part of the name you cared about. Good luck. -Courtney _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
