Extension:CategorySortHeaders

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CategorySortHeaders Release status: stable
Implementation	Hook
Description	Make custom headings in category pages, instead of just the first character headings
Author(s)	Brian Wolff Universal Omega
Latest version	0.4.0 (2021-04-20)
MediaWiki	1.35+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters $wgCategorySortHeaderAppendPageNameToKey
Hooks used Collation::factory
Quarterly downloads	4 (Ranked 129th)
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The CategorySortHeaders extension to allow specifying custom multi-character 'first-character' sorting headers to list pages under in categories, using syntax like [[Category:Foo|^Header^Invisible part of sortkey]] or even just [[Category:Foo|^Header^]].

Usage

If you want a category to use a custom header, do [[Category:Cat name|^header^OptionalInvisibleSortkey]] (or {{DEFAULTSORT:^header^Optionalsortkey}}. If you want to use the default first letter headers, just use categories as normal.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted CategorySortHeaders folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CategorySortHeaders
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'CategorySortHeaders' );
  

• Run either update.php or updateCollation.php from the command line (Note that running the web installer in upgrade mode does not work due to task T19335)
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.35 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.35 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'CategorySortHeaders' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/CategorySortHeaders/CategorySortHeaders.php";

Warning:

Do not set $wgCategoryCollation in LocalSettings.php . This extension defines its own collation, and must use that.

Configuration

This extension has a single configuration option:

$wgCategorySortHeaderAppendPageNameToKey

It defaults to true, which causes a sortkey of ^foo^ to be treated like ^foo^{{PAGENAME}}. If it is set to false, it will sort ^foo^ above ^foo^<any string here>. (In both cases, if there are two exactly same sort keys, the pagename will be used as a tie breaker.) After changing this option you should run:

php updateCollation.php --force

If anyone likes the idea of this extension, but wants to use the uca-default collation instead of uppercase - let me (bawolff) know. It probably wouldn't be very difficult to modify this extension to make it work with uca-default

See also

• Help:Categories