Thread:*-jester-*/@comment-5085162-20120530144134/@comment-5085162-20120531161413

I don't understand what you're assuming about the sorting option. Both sub-tables are still sortable. It's just that one sub-table only has the dogs while the other sub-table only has the non-dogs. This won't work in general; I'm only proposing it for the Dog Park object map. If somebody adds an item to the end of either sub-table, you can still sort the sub-table into alphabetical order.

If we're going to do something like the wedding gifts style, I'd _strongly_ recommend a tool to create the table. Keep the raw information somewhere else, maybe in a separate namespace, and have a tool that pulls out the name and icon, sorts them, and prepares the table for insertion. It would only be a couple of dozen lines of Python (or some equivalent high-level language); if the mediawiki is flexible enough (which I don't think it is, it doesn't seem to have any macro capability at all), the processing step could be automated.

But then, that's the kind of thing I used to do for a living, so maybe I'm biased.