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The numeric sorting order is maintained even when text is found in the cells that follow the 5th cell. 123,564,589.7e12 is in scientific notation and is treated as a number. An empty cell is treated as a non-number when sorting numerically. There is an empty cell initially at the bottom of each of the 2 tables just below.
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.
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
Category:Wikipedia tables: lists even more table help pages. Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables: the Manual of Style indicates best practices for tables. Wikipedia:Table dos and don'ts: a quick guide to the Manual of Style for tables. mw:Help:Tables; User:Dcljr/Tables: table tutorials.
Related problems include approximate sorting (sorting a sequence to within a certain amount of the correct order), partial sorting (sorting only the k smallest elements of a list, or finding the k smallest elements, but unordered) and selection (computing the kth smallest element). These can be solved inefficiently by a total sort, but more ...
If a table is created in Visual Editor, the dialog includes a checkbox to "Make table sortable". If you check this box, then a reader can sort the table by any column, by clicking on the header cell for that column. Existing tables, or tables created in wikitext can be made sortable by adding the wikitable sortable class to the top of the table:
The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable"; the latter allows the reader to sort the table by clicking on the header cell of any column. caption Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between the table start and the first table row.
wikibits.js can be improved to include more date formats and trim leading/trailing spaces from dates. I've taken a stab at a couple of improvements outlined below . Dates of the f