A proposal has been filed to sort list items (in an ordered or unordered lsit)

and tables according to the first item or column (alphanumeric or by date)

I feel we should extend the WikiSyntax to include a meta tag for specifying that
a section is going to be a lexically sorted list, so that in whatever order
Wikipedians add entries to the list, the list will always be rendered in a
lexically sorted order.

Support. I support your idea and would like to extend your proposal with a
request for a function which sorts table column(s).

Lexically sorting should be possible (difficult, because somehow language and
country dependent ...) and I also need time/date sorting according to entries
which have ISO dates in sortable forms such as CCYYMMDDHHMMSS .

A tag could be an extension of the Wiki table syntax, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table#Guide_to_the_pipe_syntax --Nyxos
19:05, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sorting_lists_and_tables