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KhymChanur from USA Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#1: Dec 31st 2013 at 10:19:35 PM

If you view the "related" list for an article, and the list has a bunch of links in the same namespace, then they don't sort properly. For instance, with https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Wiki/SCPFoundation, for the "Web Original" namespace, you have "There's No Kill like Overkill", "Running Gag", and then "Crazy-Prepared".

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#2: Jan 2nd 2014 at 12:13:00 PM

I think you mean for Web Original subpages, e.g. RunningGag.Web Original. The namespace is the part that comes before the page title (RunningGag/, in the previous example). Related To pages are sorted by page title, not namespace, which is why subpages with the same title aren't in alphabetical order by namespace. However, I agree that having the secondary sort to be by namespace instead of whatever it currently is would be nice, as it would make it easier to track where you are when doing a wick cleanup.

edited 2nd Jan '14 12:13:31 PM by Nocturna

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#3: Jan 8th 2014 at 10:53:19 PM

I'd like to say that the secondary sort order by namespace already, but it isn't. Take a related page like this one and look at the various namespaces for, say, Anime or AnimeAndManga. No apparent order whatsoever.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#4: Mar 14th 2016 at 10:13:53 AM

Is this still an issue?

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