Category talk:Ancient Roman mosaics in the Museo archeologico nazionale (Taranto)

sortkey documentation

According to @Fabrizio Garrisi:

If the available data allows, I am attributing each file to categories that allow searches according to five criteria: by exhibition section (almost coinciding with the exhibition room), by type of object, by century, by main material and by place of discovery. The sub-categories by type of object allow you to group the finds by cultural area of production: Greek, Apulian, Roman.

Within each category the order of the files is free, and if you think to set a convenient and explanatory one you are free to do so and I would be grateful for your help.

Without intervention, order is chaotic. It's alphabetically by file name. It is not very significant, it depends on whether a user uploads a file giving precedence, in the file name, to the author or the type of object or the subject represented, and everything is mixed if users have languages from different countries.

I am working like this. I strive to sort the exhibits according to the room and possibly also the showcase in which they are exhibited. This has an advantage. The National Museum of Taranto is ordered by sections that respect a certain chronological order (first prehistory, then the Greek colony city, the city after the conquest of the Romans and finally the medieval city ...), ordering statues, reliefs and ceramics according to the exhibition sector also places the finds more or less in a chronological order of production. In each category I group the files that represent the same subject, and for this reason it is convenient for me to use, if known, the inventory number.

Here is my strange sort code:

s12v21r51575

means: room 12, showcase 21, inventory no. 51575.

The code helps me to insert each new file in the desired order without having to change the sort code of all those already uploaded. And it allows me to group files already present and new files that represent the same subject.

Of course any best idea would be welcome. --@Fabrizio Garrisi (copied from my user talk page). Elizium23 (talk) 03:37, 2 June 2023 (UTC)