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Collection extension should not add chapters in reverse order
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Description

If you go to [[b:Special:Book]] and use the button to create some chapters in the order you want them in your book, e.g.:

  • Glossary of Biology/A
  • Glossary of Biology/B
  • ...
  • Glossary of Biology/Z

you will get the chapters in reverse order:
;Glossary of Biology/Z
;...
;Glossary of Biology/B
;Glossary of Biology/A

This is wrong and should be fixed, because currently the options are either:

  • Use drag and drop feature (if you can use it at all) to do a lot of permutations;
  • Clear your collection and recreate the chapters in the reverse order [do you know the alphabet from Z to A? ;-) ]

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2009/November

Details

Reference
bz28060

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:34 PM
bzimport added a project: Collection.
bzimport set Reference to bz28060.

volker.haas wrote:

Currently a chapter is added to the front of the item. For the above use-case this is unfortunate. But changing the behaviour would break other use-cases. Therefore I vote for not changing this.

(In reply to comment #1)

Currently a chapter is added to the front of the item. For the above use-case
this is unfortunate. But changing the behaviour would break other use-cases.
Therefore I vote for not changing this.

Could you provide some examples of use-cases which would break if the extension was improved for the cases described? I think the situation described in comment 0 includes the most common cases on Wikibooks projects, were the structure (order of chapters) of the books are already defined when we want to create a PDF/ODT/printed version of them?

Besides, the feature certaily doesn't works as expected at the moment, so I don't think this bug should be tagged as WORKSFORME.