Talk:Star Wars Minute: Weekend Edition 100

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I feel we need a proper solution to the sorting issue. Is adding a sort key to every single category on every page realistic? Spookypeanut (talk) 06:01, 4 April 2017 (PDT)

I notice you're adding a "z" before all the numbers post-100: wouldn't we be better in the long term to add leading zeroes to all the sub-100 pages? That way, until we get to 1000 (gulp), no page over 100 will need any adjustment Spookypeanut (talk) 06:05, 4 April 2017 (PDT)

I'm glad you brought this up; you may be right. I have been thinking more short term than that, When I started doing this, there were far more pages below 100 than above it, so it made sense to edit the 100+ pages only. If we care about how the pages appear on the category pages (and I guess I do, though it does seem a bit anal retentive of me), then I think sort keys are the only way to accomplish this --Kabutton (talk) 06:19, 4 April 2017 (PDT)

You're definitely in the right place for a little bit of obsessive organization ;-) I'll try to go back through some of the earlier pages and put keys in: I'd much rather get the previous ones done then not have to worry about it (at least for the next 17 years) than have to add the sort key on each new page! Spookypeanut (talk) 06:23, 4 April 2017 (PDT)

How about for regular episodes? I feel like it makes sense to use the z's because the longest movie is 140 minutes or so, so the majority of pages will always be less than 100 and thus require no modification. I have done this with the movie-specific category pages, but not the Category:Episodes page yet.
Pete mentioned that he would be moving the wiki to its own server so he could give us dev access. Once he's done that, we can install our own extensions. I seem to remember there being one that will let the page do math, so it should be able to autofill the numbers the three Navigation buttons, the sort keys, etc. I'm quite looking forward to that. --Kabutton (talk) 10:48, 4 April 2017 (PDT)

A good point about regular episodes. My head is so in SWM:WE that that's all I was thinking about. I see what you mean, adding z probably makes sense there. Indeed, the dev access will be amazing. I code in my day job, so I'll be up for writing a little script to add / correct all of the sort keys :-) Spookypeanut (talk) 05:22, 5 April 2017 (PDT)

OK, sort keys are updated for all the current SWM:WE pages. I'll keep using the "z method" for regular episode pages, but as you write the SWM:WE pages you shouldn't have to worry about using sort keys going forward.--Kabutton (talk) 19:17, 5 April 2017 (PDT)


Wow, amazing work! Thank you! One of these days I'll get round to re-listening to some old episodes, i kind of miss doing non-we episodes! Spookypeanut (talk) 05:03, 6 April 2017 (PDT)

Hey, thanks! If you want to do any of the old episodes, there's plenty to go around! --Kabutton (talk) 15:42, 8 April 2017 (PDT)