Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/To-do list

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Multiple watchlists

@Wostr This sounds very similar to earlier requests:

• Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Watchlists/Multiple_watchlists
• Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Watchlists/Multiple_watchlists

Is that what you are looking for as well ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

In principle, probably. In detail – not necessarily. These solutions go in a slightly different direction; in this proposal the most important thing is the possibility of prioritizing and organizing one's own work, as well as providing information for other editors that someone is planning to work on a given topic. Wostr (talk) 17:07, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

@Wostr, would allowing notes for each watchlist item, combined with multiple watchlists (you could have one dedicated to todo) do the job?

As for providing public info, I am not sure how Wikiproject todo pages aren't already good enough. Could you elaborate on the providing information for other editors aspect? Commander Keane (talk) 03:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

In many Wikimedia projects, wikiprojects don't work efficiently (if at all), and managing their pages takes time (most of the work is done manually). The way I see it, on pages added to the ones to-do list as 'public', an info would be visible in the toolbar for each editor that 'X people have this page on their to-do list' with the ability to see who is going to work on the page and to what extent/what can be done to help them or what they need help with. Wostr (talk) 14:53, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Related proposal about sharing todos

I like this part: Additionally, marking a given task on the list as "public" could simultaneously be displayed in the view of the given article or page, so that other editors can see that someone else is interested in the page and has plans to fix it. – see the related proposal about a tasks system where these todos could be integrated and be found by relevant editors: Suggested tasks based on contributions history (user interests) also for experienced editors. Probably I will link back to this proposal at the relevant part there.

The other parts of it may be neat to have but I think one can largely use a note editor for that (or bookmarks if people prefer that). Prototyperspective (talk) 19:16, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hi @Wostr - I'd like to learn more about this so we can understand what kind of priority to give it as compared to the other possible things that could be worked on. I'm wondering what benefit you see to having this functionality within Wikimedia projects, versus having an external to-do list in your own note-taking app? Are there problems this could solve that are only possible if we built this feature into MediaWiki? Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:07, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Most users probably use more than one place to create such lists – I use four myself. These can be external applications (browser addons, phone apps, computer apps), but also browser bookmarks, as well as your own subpages in a specific project or even written notes somewhere near the place of editing. None of these solutions support one of the most important things in Wikimedia projects – collaboration between users on a given topic. A key element of this solution is information for other users that is easily visible and accessible from the article level that someone else is working or planning to work on a given topic. Wostr (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2024 (UTC)