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The ! indicates cells that are header cells. In order for a table to be sortable, the first row(s) of a table need to be entirely made up out of these header cells. You can learn more about the basic table syntax by taking the Introduction to tables for source editing.
However, this table is auto-sorted by the thirteenth column (based on the number of articles) which is hidden (although the same values are used again — and shown — in column 4 as "Articles"), and which is a numeric field and should be used for auto-sorting in descending order (highest at the top).
It is possible to change the default order in which the articles in a Category are displayed on the Category: page. For general instructions and conventions about this, see Wikipedia:Categorization § Sort keys. Note that there are two techniques for defining a sort order different from the sort order that would result from the page name:
For example, say that student records consisting of name and class section are sorted dynamically, first by name, then by class section. If a stable sorting algorithm is used in both cases, the sort-by-class-section operation will not change the name order; with an unstable sort, it could be that sorting by section shuffles the name order ...
Sorting may refer to: Help:Sortable tables, for editing tables which can be sorted by viewers; Help:Category § Sorting category pages, for documentation of how categories are sorted; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists § Sorting a list, for guidelines on ordering of lists
Explicit table captions (or titles) are recommended for data tables as a best practice; the Wikipedia Manual of Style considers them a high priority for accessibility reasons (screen readers), as a caption is explicitly associated with the table, unlike a normal wikitext heading or introductory sentence. All data tables on Wikipedia require ...
Such a component or property is called a sort key. For example, the items are books, the sort key is the title, subject or author, and the order is alphabetical. A new sort key can be created from two or more sort keys by lexicographical order. The first is then called the primary sort key, the second the secondary sort key, etc.
This order is usually determined by the order in which the elements are added to the structure, but the elements can be rearranged in some contexts, such as sorting a list. For a structure that isn't ordered, on the other hand, no assumptions can be made about the ordering of the elements (although a physical implementation of these data types ...