Sorted Tables, Wiki formatting in general

[franzeska]

So, I was working on the Shounen article, and I wanted to make a point about the whole genre vs. demographic thing. (In Japan, "shounen" = comics aimed at boys; in English-speaking fandom, "shounen" = that Dragonball stuff.) I was thinking that a nice, sortable table would be just the thing to organize the list of popular series people had already come up with, but in creating it, I noticed two things:

First, I was expecting the list to mostly be titles that ran in Shounen Jump (a very major magazine responsible for a lot of the unified genre elements that make English-speaking fandom consider shounen a genre). I was not expecting 100% of them to be from there! Surely there are some other popular series that aren't. Detective Conan/Case Closed isn't (and I'll go add it when I finish this post), but I'd love it if anyone could think of some others to add. Here's the popular series section of the shounen article.

Second, I knew of sortable tables from Wikipedia, so I just assumed I could do them on Fanlore. However, when I looked at the editing help pages, they weren't mentioned. Does this mean they're not allowed? Or does this just mean we need more documentation? I copied the formatting from Wikipedia (which has extensive documentation on the subject), and it shows up fine on Fanlore.

Wikipedia's page on sorting and sortable tables
Fanlore's page on tables

Comments

[christycorr]

Yeah, sortable tables have been default for several MW versions now. We just need to add documentation.

[franzeska]

Awesome! Because they are so, so, so useful!

[melina]

That was my bad, I'm afraid, as I'm the one who ported over most of the initial documentation.

If they work, you can most definitely use them!

[franzeska]

Awesome. Do you want me to write up some documentation for them? (Or can we just use Wikipedia's?)

[melina]

If you'd like to do it, you are most definitely welcome to write up documentation, port over wikipedia's, or some combination of the two!

If it's a new page, be sure to add it to Help:Contents so it's easy to find.

Thank you so much!

[franzeska]

I stuck a couple of sections on the tables help page.