Community of Polish Wikinews finds current MediaWiki organisation of articles in category not applicable to Wikinews: users are completely not interested in browsing articles by title; readers of news services are accustomed to articles organized by date. What we would like to have is making all articles from main namespace being sorted by creation date (newest first) in categories; it can be an option or can well be default behaviour, as we don't need alphabetical sorting beyond Wikinews:, Portal: and similar namespaces. Please note that we need ordering by _creation_ (first edit) date, not last edit date.
Current DynamicPageList extension cannot be true solution here from a number of reasons: it shows articles sorted by last edit date (making it hardly useful, because even old articles can be always modified, in example by CommonsDelinker, an appear on the very top). It shows only limited number of articles. There are rumours that this extension causes server performance problems. Finally, there is a need of manual intervention to add DPL to a category. If Wikinews is to compete with modern news services, using "tags" (which make browsing articles much easier), it cannot rely on DPL, because there is not enough people to add DPL everywhere.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement