Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36291880-20180722184355/@comment-3361105-20180723000528

Trust me. I tried to copy what Marvel is doing. It doesn't work without completely restructuring the way our wiki's infrastructure works. Alternative methods I tried wouldn't work without doing a DPL call within a DPL call, the platform does not support that. It's not a simple task.

Like SforHope says, we would lose alphabetical sorting in List View if we replaced it with chronological sorting. Unless we had two categories for Alphabetical appearances and Chronological appearances - which, if I recall correctly, still didn't work properly, because the A template doesn't know which page it's going to be used, so inserting a DPL call into it would result in the call not knowing which page to call data from.

This wiki is more than ten years old. If you think there's a thing that could make this wiki better that we haven't tried, you're probably wrong.