"...that anyone can edit", or just a slip of the fingers/mind?

[thnidu]

I just found the following on the Help:Sorting page on Mediawiki:

Some more common characters are ordered as follows (in descending order):

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I changed "descending" to "ascending", and for the edit summary referenced the comment I made on the Talk page:

Please note the definitions of ascending and descending order:

• The order in how information is sorted or arranged, ascending order is always arranged from lowest to highest. For example, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" and "a, b, c, d, e, f" are both arranged in ascending order.
• The order in how information is sorted or arranged, descending order is arranged from highest to lowest. For example, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" and "e, d, c, b, a" are both arranged in a descending order.

I would not have thought it necessary to explain this here, but see this diff .
This is much more polite than my original edit summary.

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