Author: gabriel.fishman
Description:
Great work on the sortable tables javascript!
When the javascript is applied to tables with a column that is a list of names
(e.g. a table of US Senators with a column for the name, state, year elected,
etc.) the script will sort by first name rather than last name, which is
generally the wrong behavior. I would love to see a solution where a user could
define a parameter for a particular column which would tell MediaWiki to sort
that column lexicographically starting with the first letter of the last word in
each cell (the last name). Perhaps this could be achieved by adding an html
comment such as <!--LNAME--> to the first cell in the column.
This is my first bug report so I apologize if its formatted incorrectly. :)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
OS: Mac OS X 10.4