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Almost trivial. It would need to follow How to Alphabetize Things: ignoring articles—not just “a,” “an,” and “the,” but also foreign articles like in La Résistance and colloquial articles like in Da Chief.
And the rule about numbers before letters even when the number is only in the custom title is especially tricky. How do you teach a bot that 100% Completion goes before A when the actual Wiki Word is spelled with an H?
Thinking about it, it would need extra steps.
It can query the custom title and disregard articles if they are the first word.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I'm showing my support for this because I've recently done a script to sort a list of watched works for my troper profile and it was a functionality that was badly needed especially when it came to formatting entries and linking them to their pages on tvtropes.
I approached the problem in two ways:
- It was helpful to check each newline, first for bullet points, then for formatting around a word boundary in and/or checking for words that have CamelCase.
- I used an nlp library that could identify all elements of a statement to reorder them or index them for further sorting.
Without access to a database, figuring out if an entry was a series, film, etc; was done manually, not to mention how a work is called in its namespace here on tvtropes.
However, I had the release years of works so it was easy to make a Levenshtein distance check from entries I had and entries that could be collected from various indexes on tvt to figure it out even easier... Obviously TVT's sorting need not be this complex or feature complete but it would be easy to implement with access to the database entries.
Edited by skewview AFK with issues, will return
Similarly to Folderizer
, would like to see a script or a button that sorts examples alphabetically.
For work pages it's trivial, because tropes are always the first word in a line. ** second bullets would need to be attached to the above line.
Trope pages would be really tricky. Even if the namespace can be taken for a folder to be place at, work wicks may be practically anywhere in the example. Not sure if going by the first link in italics is reliable.