Thread:Project:Support desk/Chronological sorting of category articles/reply

Hi 93.152.182.41. A discussion relevant to your question has recently taken place in this thread.

There's an extension in the pipeline, called Extension:CategorySortHeaders, which may help you. Although it is intended for a future version of MW (1.19), a patch is available to make it work for MediaWiki 1.17, too (the latest stable release).