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Reorg edit
That edit was pretty much a rehearsal for a play that may never open. IMO effective and efficient dabs should be a foundation for improving the usability of WP, tho they generally are relegated to treatment as an annoying bit of dump and run that only useless drones like yours-truly waste their time on. There may be a grand plan that only paid foundation staff can appreciate, and i don't claim that my own training and professional experience qualify me to. But i expect that the evidence that skilled software designers put effort into supporting e.g., wp:This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspect(s) of Wikipedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Oh! Help:Sorting#Creating sortable tables is out there, and i haven't stayed up to date for it for years and years, bcz i haven't seen anything described as a sortable table for years, and have never even considered finding out what it would take to get JavaScript support on my hardware, let alone learn the patience to wait for what "may take a long time":
- The actual sorting process will happen on your computer using client-side JavaScript. For this reason it is only possible to use this functionality if you have JavaScript enabled in your web browser. The sorting process is also dependent on your computer and the amount of data. Sorting a very large table on a slow computer may take a long time.
Creating sortable tables isn't something that was covered in my MS/CSI curriculum.... using them certainly was worth the effort, back when you routinely found them offered on suitably interesting tables. Tho, even back in those benighted times, caching frequently requested data in an efficent hierarchy of storage modes and compression schemes was, IIRC, well understood.
--JerzyA (talk) 05:58, 31 October 2019 (UTC)