Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Allow multiple entries within each category

Allow multiple entries within each category

  • Problem: Sometimes, multiple entries within a category would be useful. For instance, on the French wiktionary there is a listing of French verbs that includes both the infinitive form (e.g. aimer) and a pronominal form (s’aimer). But which sort key should be given to the pronominal form? Equally valid arguments apply for a « aimer s » key and a « saimer » key. Ideally, the entry would appear twice in the category, under those two keys. There are other examples, such as proper nouns beginning with a definite article (e.g. Le Mans should be categorised under « Mans Le » and « Le Mans »).
  • Proposed solution: Possibly add to the wiki software a magic word that can be used to specify a second (third, fourth, etc.) entry in a category’s index. Other wikicode approaches may be possible.
  • Who would benefit: Wiktionaries, other wiki projects.
  • More comments: This could be merged with the proposal for Context-dependent sort keys, depending on the technical solution chosen.
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  • Proposer: Urhixidur (talk) 20:36, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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