Wiki Pages aren't in Alphabetical Order...

Are you referring to the table of contents?  If yes its not really necessary an alphabetical list as the table of contents can be sorted both from the management panel itself and during the page editing process.

Hi Patrick, 

No one sorted the pages or changed any of the settings. We aren't able to change the order in the edit process for this Wiki, and I'm the only person with the ability to do so. It's as though the system is automatically restarting the alphabet. 

 Rachel Jackson By any chance, do you mean the list of pages in the admin-pencil flyout? That is listed alphabetically and I've seen that list "restart" before.

If you mean the front-end widget showing the table of contents, then I'd agree with Sara Collins 's comment on this thread.

Hi Alex,

The Pages list is in full alphabetical order. The Table of Contents starts in alphabetical order, then restarts again with the second half of content. 

I am the only person who can change the order of the table of contents, and that is something I have not done. It seems like all new content goes into the second half of the alphabet.

Has any one else experienced this happening with large amounts of Wiki Pages? 

It would be very tedious and time consuming if the only way for me to correct this is to manually move everything up and down, as we have over 2000 pages that I would need to manually alphabetize.

Howdy Rachel Jackson Are you also the only person who can edit wiki pages? When making edits to a wiki page the Options tab does provide the author the ability to set where that page, and it's siblings, will appear in the Table of Contents. 

Hi Tom, 

Users can edit the pages, but the Options tab does not have the option to move the pages location in the table of contents, unlike some of our other Wikis. 

That's interesting, might it be related to what parent page content is being assigned to? Or perhaps that's also hidden on this wiki. 

Hi Tom, 

There is only one parent page on this Wiki...Not sure how I'd find out if there's a hidden one, as it doesn't show in the table of contents. 

 Rachel Jackson  I'll re-use my same screenshot from above, but does anything show in the "Hidden from TOC" or "Unpublished" tabs here: 

Nope.... :/

I'm a little curious of your use-case here. It seems like having 2000 pages at the same "level" is pretty unruly. Can you move more of them to be children of parent pages? Is there a way to categorize these? There might be a better process or other solutions to consider 

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Even if its simply making an A parent page, B parent page, etc. 

Hi Alex,

This is an Acropedia. Basically an encyclopedia/ list of all the acronyms that we have and use in the company. It is ever expanding as more users join, new things happen, etc. 

I can look into alphabetical parent pages, but that would require some level of maintenance, where as the system will default to alphabetical if the table of contents isn't edited. Which it still is doing, just split in half...

Hi Alex,

This is an Acropedia. Basically an encyclopedia/ list of all the acronyms that we have and use in the company. It is ever expanding as more users join, new things happen, etc. 

I can look into alphabetical parent pages, but that would require some level of maintenance, where as the system will default to alphabetical if the table of contents isn't edited. Which it still is doing, just split in half...

Thanks Rachel Jackson , that makes a lot more sense.

I have a few thoughts:

1. When creating a Wiki page, it defaults to the bottom of the list in the Options that Tom mentioned and you say isn't loading for you. Since you say it's only happening to the new pages, my assumption is the list isn't loading, but it still functions like it is on saving the new page:
   
2. The Options not showing is probably a bigger issue. I don't know if there's a limit you've hit, but I would do some basic troubleshooting to rule that out (Try it in another browser, try as another user, try in Incognito/Private browsing, try in another group on your community) and then probably open a Support case to have them check your community to narrow down the cause. There might be some server-side errors you're not aware of, for instance. 
3. There is not a Sort option on the TOC and being able to manipulate the order of the TOC and page nesting is an important feature for many situations. I see the benefit from your standpoint though, but none of the wikis on my community are alphabetized and are instead grouped by like-pages, or importance, or some other method. I'd suggest creating an Ideas and Improvements  to request sorting options on the TOC in Wikis (alphabetical, date created, date modified, etc). 
4. Maybe a different widget instead of the TOC widget could help. For example, if you do some changes in Widget Studio, maybe you can make the Wikis - Page List widget work for you properly. We have the Filtered Content List widget from Social Edge (Sara Collins can probably tell you more) and seems like that would work perfectly for you too. 

I hope this helps!