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This desperately needs a hide/show button, and a parameter to have it hidden by default. The code for this can be ripped from any of a number of other templates (I've even seen a WikiProject talk page banner that does this - it has a line reading something like "Project to-do list [show]" and it uses the same to-do list as this box template. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 01:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
collapsed=yes
as in {{To do|collapsed=yes}}
will make the list appear collapsed, with a "show" button. As far as I can see, there is currently no way to make the template collapsible, but expanded by default.I have a to-do box on my userpage. It is too big for some screens. in other words it begins below my userboxes as opposed to being beside it. How can that be fixed? Is there a way to shrink the box size? thanks, PGPirate 17:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
small=yes
as in {{To do|small=yes}}
will make the list appear as a sidebar. See the documentation at
Template:To_do.The list currently has a 'priority' (popularity, more accurately) status, but what about the urgency of the work? Some articles only need minor adjustments or have very low urgency tasks such as 'improve related articles', 'maintain quality' etc. Should this also be a factor, as with class/importance in banners? Richard001 07:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. I found the instructions inadequate. This is complicated (for me) so please look over the step-by-step and see if it really works. Where to put the * bullet point tasks? Would help to have a screen shot or two. See my problems here, thanks. HG | Talk 13:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
{{tasks ...}}
that you are seeing is the default content of the to do list. Using that default content is completely optional. You can replace it with your own text, for example a simple itemization. Looking at your to-do list edits, the
second edit indicates that you tried something like that. Simply remove that {{tasks ...}}
and you should be good.While WP:to-do list only mentions adding {{ todo}} to talk pages, the examples in template:todo mention adding it to project and user pages. Is it in fact legitimate to use {{ todo}} to keep track of tasks on a user page? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 11:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't explain the parameters of the template and how to use them. When I click to edit the task list, I get: {{tasks | requests = | assess = | category = | citations = | cleanup = | collaborate = | copyedit = | deletion = | disambiguation = | expand = | fac = | far = | flc = | fsc = | gan = | gar = | geocoord = | infobox = | maintain = | map = | merge = | notability = | npov = | orphans = | photo = | split = | stubs = | unreferenced = | update = | verify = | wikify = | other = | othertext = }} and there is zero explanation to what we're supposed to write, or what some of it means, for example, what is "gan", "gar, and "fsc"? How do I answer these too? For "copyedit" do I just write "yes" or "needs this" or what? This whole article needs rewriting with actual real-life instructions on its use. MagnoliaSouth ( talk) 17:36, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
{{tasks ...}}
that you are seeing is the default content of the to do list. Using that default content is completely optional. That default "tasks" list can serve as a reminder of which areas *might* need work, so does appear useful to me. You can replace it with your own text, for example a simple itemization, if you want to. I sometimes did just that, but commented out the "tasks" template with its parameters, to keep them as a convenient reminder.
Template:Tasks is separate from
Template:To_do, so to understand Template:Tasks' parameters, you need to look at its own
documentation.
Template:To_do even refers to
Template:Tasks in its (to do's) documentation, in section
See also. The obscure parameter names that you mention are acronyms,
Template:Tasks explains their meaning.As someone just learning about this template, I was confused to read in the first paragraph:
> It is created and formatted using the {{Todo}} template.
But then to read in the subsequent instructions that the template text has a space in the middle, as in {{to do}}. I adjusted one example to have a space, but when I look at the code for the first instance it is “{{tl|Todo}}”. Can this also be changed to have a space in it? While I have been editing Wikipedia for years, I have not done much with templates themselves and so I do not know how edits may or may not affect them. Hence this question. - Dyork ( talk) 00:57, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I notice when I use the {{to do}} template, added to a Talk page, then edit that same To Do list, it shows up in an editing block as a tab very similar to a Talk page. Ah... but the tab adjacent to that at top left of the editing area is a redlink, as if my new to-do list isn't connected to an article, or at least t one that isn't yet created. This is throwing me off. Is this an error? Why not make the To-Do tab a third tab, showing it inside the Talk page when it has been used? Jax MN ( talk) 21:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
file:Ryansnote.svg Arlo James Barnes 03:22, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
To-do list page. |
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Archives: 1 |
Wikipedia Help NA‑class Mid‑importance | ||||||||||
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NOTICE: This page is intended for discussion of the page called " Wikipedia:To-do list". Neither that page nor this talk page here are an actual to-do list. If you want to suggest something to be done on an existing Wikipedia article, please go to that article's "talk page" and make your suggestion there (look for the "Talk" tab at the top of the article). If you want to suggest a new article, please start here.
This desperately needs a hide/show button, and a parameter to have it hidden by default. The code for this can be ripped from any of a number of other templates (I've even seen a WikiProject talk page banner that does this - it has a line reading something like "Project to-do list [show]" and it uses the same to-do list as this box template. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 01:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
collapsed=yes
as in {{To do|collapsed=yes}}
will make the list appear collapsed, with a "show" button. As far as I can see, there is currently no way to make the template collapsible, but expanded by default.I have a to-do box on my userpage. It is too big for some screens. in other words it begins below my userboxes as opposed to being beside it. How can that be fixed? Is there a way to shrink the box size? thanks, PGPirate 17:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
small=yes
as in {{To do|small=yes}}
will make the list appear as a sidebar. See the documentation at
Template:To_do.The list currently has a 'priority' (popularity, more accurately) status, but what about the urgency of the work? Some articles only need minor adjustments or have very low urgency tasks such as 'improve related articles', 'maintain quality' etc. Should this also be a factor, as with class/importance in banners? Richard001 07:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. I found the instructions inadequate. This is complicated (for me) so please look over the step-by-step and see if it really works. Where to put the * bullet point tasks? Would help to have a screen shot or two. See my problems here, thanks. HG | Talk 13:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
{{tasks ...}}
that you are seeing is the default content of the to do list. Using that default content is completely optional. You can replace it with your own text, for example a simple itemization. Looking at your to-do list edits, the
second edit indicates that you tried something like that. Simply remove that {{tasks ...}}
and you should be good.While WP:to-do list only mentions adding {{ todo}} to talk pages, the examples in template:todo mention adding it to project and user pages. Is it in fact legitimate to use {{ todo}} to keep track of tasks on a user page? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 11:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't explain the parameters of the template and how to use them. When I click to edit the task list, I get: {{tasks | requests = | assess = | category = | citations = | cleanup = | collaborate = | copyedit = | deletion = | disambiguation = | expand = | fac = | far = | flc = | fsc = | gan = | gar = | geocoord = | infobox = | maintain = | map = | merge = | notability = | npov = | orphans = | photo = | split = | stubs = | unreferenced = | update = | verify = | wikify = | other = | othertext = }} and there is zero explanation to what we're supposed to write, or what some of it means, for example, what is "gan", "gar, and "fsc"? How do I answer these too? For "copyedit" do I just write "yes" or "needs this" or what? This whole article needs rewriting with actual real-life instructions on its use. MagnoliaSouth ( talk) 17:36, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
{{tasks ...}}
that you are seeing is the default content of the to do list. Using that default content is completely optional. That default "tasks" list can serve as a reminder of which areas *might* need work, so does appear useful to me. You can replace it with your own text, for example a simple itemization, if you want to. I sometimes did just that, but commented out the "tasks" template with its parameters, to keep them as a convenient reminder.
Template:Tasks is separate from
Template:To_do, so to understand Template:Tasks' parameters, you need to look at its own
documentation.
Template:To_do even refers to
Template:Tasks in its (to do's) documentation, in section
See also. The obscure parameter names that you mention are acronyms,
Template:Tasks explains their meaning.As someone just learning about this template, I was confused to read in the first paragraph:
> It is created and formatted using the {{Todo}} template.
But then to read in the subsequent instructions that the template text has a space in the middle, as in {{to do}}. I adjusted one example to have a space, but when I look at the code for the first instance it is “{{tl|Todo}}”. Can this also be changed to have a space in it? While I have been editing Wikipedia for years, I have not done much with templates themselves and so I do not know how edits may or may not affect them. Hence this question. - Dyork ( talk) 00:57, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I notice when I use the {{to do}} template, added to a Talk page, then edit that same To Do list, it shows up in an editing block as a tab very similar to a Talk page. Ah... but the tab adjacent to that at top left of the editing area is a redlink, as if my new to-do list isn't connected to an article, or at least t one that isn't yet created. This is throwing me off. Is this an error? Why not make the To-Do tab a third tab, showing it inside the Talk page when it has been used? Jax MN ( talk) 21:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
file:Ryansnote.svg Arlo James Barnes 03:22, 16 February 2024 (UTC)