Template talk:To do/Archive 1

message: It's strange that I'm called overzealous by User:Netoholic when sen edits change the entire appearance of the template.  Some points about my edits, for clarification:
* The table has one row.  Using rowspan="2" is pointless.
** Point taken. Obviously it didn't break anything, and looks like it was simply left over. -- Netoholic 10:18, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Per my message on your talk page, it felt more like you were blind-siding the efforts here, since this is the first real discussion you've put into it. -- Netoholic 10:18, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I felt that I wasn't making significant changes.    --Eequor 16:59, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kneejerk reactions 

message: There's plenty of "real estate" inside the border; there's very little text there currently.  Negative space has value, just as positive space does, and placing a link under the image wastes that.  Notice that most of the templates at Wikipedia:Template messages#Open_tasks are fairly generous with empty space near the same image.  --Eequor 10:09, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real estate 

message: Netoholic, are you currently using this template for a to-do list on a different page?  You haven't edited any "to do" subpages, that I can see.  Why should your opinions set the precedent for people who will actually use the template?  --Eequor 17:29, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I find that comment rude and short-sighted. This template is very new, and is still a bit in flux (like the "priority" ranking). Its still very much a work in progress, but one I am interested in contributing to in anticipation of using it on some of the pages that interest me most. Please don't be so judgemental, it destracts from everyone's experience here. Comment on content, not on the contributor. -- Netoholic 03:13, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage 

message: Pending tasks is an improvement over high-priority editorial tasks, but it's still somewhat of a misnomer.  To-do lists in current use sometimes strike out supposedly resolved issues, in which case they are no longer "pending".  --Eequor 21:45, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note on wording 

message: People using a text-only browser, or a graphical browser with images disabled, lose nothing by not seeing the "Evolution-tasks.png" image.  They also don't need to see browser-supplied text saying something like "there should be an image here but I can't display it" or "Evolution-tasks.png".  Therefore, the image should be have empty alt text, but that's impossible, and the next best thing is to have a single space as the alt text.  This is done with  (see Wikipedia:Alternative text for images).
Netoholic says that that didn't work for him, but it worked fine for me.
The  that Netoholic used means that people using text-only browsers will see the text "Tasks To-do list" in the left hand column of the table.  I don't like that, and would prefer to see just "To-do list".  So, I would like to go back to alt="(space)", as I used in [ this edit].
—AlanBarrett 09:25, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fine with that. When I checked, it displayed only <img... title=" "...> but no alt=" ". I'm fine with " " as long as it works. -- Netoholic 15:18, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: I get <a href="..." class="image" title=" "><img src="..." alt=" " /></a>, with the alt text being repeated both in the title attribute of the a tag, and in the alt attribute of the img tag.  This seems acceptable to me, though I wish it were possible to put different text in the two places.  I'll change the alt text back to " " now.  —AlanBarrett 20:55, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Alt text. Andy Mabbett 13:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image alt text 

message: We should have a Template:TodoForPage so that you could include a todo for an article to your userpage with something like  I can't get it to work, and perhaps it is not possible. ❝Sverdrup❞ 21:11, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You're active on CotW, so you've probably already seen this by now: Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/To do is an example of what you were trying to do. :-) • Benc • 19:24, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo for page

message: Why does the template todo has all these priority categories (from 1 to 9). I can hardly think how could one user decide if the article is at priority 3 or 4. It's a useless waist of time. I suggest we remove them all and keep a small number of categories (low and high priority only). CG 20:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why all this categories? 

message: :Get rid of this annoying dashed border and replace it with a solid one.
This was taken from the to-do list on top of this page. But why? Are dots all that awfull? I don't think so. jοτομικρόν | talk 19:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dotted border 

message: I've decided to make a new todo template since I think this one looks a little big and clumsy. The new one is smaller and doesn't use the black dotted line. You can find it at Template:Todo2. —Michiel Sikma, 20:17, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restyled version 

message: I've made a new version of this Todo template that uses parameters. It allows one to set a width, height, the location of the edit links (top, bottom) and the float value (left, right, none). Of course, it's possible to not set any parameters, in which case it will show up like a normal todo template. Maybe you would like to take a look at it. It's located at Template:Todo3. Maybe I can add some of the parameters that you have tried to add to this template; what functionality did you try to add? —Michiel Sikma, 12:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New version (parameters) 

message: I'd like to collect together multiple to-do lists on a WikiProject page. This would require a version of the template that doesn't use the default /todo location. Is there such a beast? With the new conditional code feature, I could easily add the option to this one (warning about making changes and testing them in a sandbox first is duly noted). --kingboyk 09:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I made one. See Template:Todo-Named. --kingboyk 10:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a version which takes the location of the todo page as a parameter? 

message: I know its not public domain, but it is GPL, so should we use :Image:Nuvola apps knotes.png in place of Notes.svg? See it in action to the left.--Draicone (talk) 06:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different image? 

message: Cleaned up all localurl to fullurl and shortened the code a lot, I have also added a preload to Template:Tasks/Preload if no /to_do exist. Have also fixed the bug with having todo on cat pages. →AzaToth 23:35, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My latest update 

message: AFAICT —Ms2ger (talk) 13:20, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Explicity adding a __TOC__ to a page using Template:Todo is a workaround for this problem.--Paul 16:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug report 

message: Why has the purge link the nonstandard title "refresh"? This caused me to insert, unnecessarily, a standalone  link. I think I hear somebody whisper "it's more refined" but I don't think anybody seriously thinks clicking a purge link will cause a bulimic teenager to stick a finger down her throat. John Reid ° 23:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purge 

message:  and  look different. Shouldn't we be striving for consistency? Maybe we should use parser functions or something on one and make the other a redirect. --WikiSlasher 02:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Long since done. "Resolved"ing topic. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different appearances 

message: Is there a reason why the template does not contain a link to the "To do" subpage itself? — Sebastian 20:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To what end?  It already shows the page, and if you want to edit it, it has an edit link (and watch, etc.)  Why non-edit link to what it is already showing you? — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, there's indeed no need. Not sure anymore why I asked; maybe the "edit" link was disabled  back then or I overlooked it. — Sebastian 20:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no link to /To_do page? 

message: I propose someone with the template know-how merge and redirect  here. Basically it's just a fork of this template as it existed at the end of February last year, sans the categories. Copying the new code over to update it would be a PITR. So I suggest that we have a new "categories" parameter to replace having a separate template just to turn off the cats, where someone who wants no todo cats on his/her user page can specify "categories=no" to turn off the cat. Anyone concur? Flyingtoaster1337 04:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I do. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge/redirect from [[template:todo nocat]] 

message: The list and target parameters are incompatible.  Since these are very new, if you fix target to require the full filename, this problem goes away before hardly anyone's implemented the existing version. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: PS: That is to say, because list exists, the shortening guesswork that target does will often be wrong, because the filename won't actually be what is expected. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Knock, knock.  Anyone home?  This appears to still be unresolved. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

text: NB: It appears to me that the code in  will solve this issue. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If' the code I wrote in Todo-Named was used here, why is it not mentioned in the history and why is aforementioned template deleted? I'm happy to work here for free but not so happy when I don't get credit for my work... --kingboyk 20:42, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug report

message: The instructions for this page say to see the variant template .  The instructions for that template say it's deprecated in favor of  with a target= parameter.  Can we fix whichever one of these is not current? -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Todo-Named needs to be merged into this one; it's code can fix the problem reported above. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo-Named deprecated?

message: Can someone(s) (namely AzaToth and Jrockley) summarize what is going on here?  Seems like an awful lot of code changes, and of too geeky a nature for me to figure out at 11:30-something my time (thought it may make immediate sense after coffee tomorrow morning.  The fact that I've been futzing around with PHP instead of WM parser functions for most of the day may have something to do with my possible denseness right now.— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 05:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jrockley moved the priority text down to the lower right corner, and I thought, why not, but fixed it so it looked better for small windows. I also then indented some code. →AzaToth 12:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wh'appen?

message: Currently when you use todo normally, it creates a link to the main page in its header "To-do list for foo".  But when i specify my target, it instead requires me to add "Talk:" to foo so that it will properly name the to-do list subpage.  The problem is that now the title reads and links to the talk page of the article as in "To-do list for Talk:Foo".  You can try just ommitting "Talk:" but then the edit button creates a subpage in the mainspace.  Why not change this to only have people write "target=Foo" and the template can add the "Talk:" part for the edit link?  i'm using awb right now to sift through all articles using this template, and so far very few utilize target... so i don't think it would be too much to change. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 22:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, i went ahead and made the change... i'm going to run awb to fix all current uses, and anyone is invited to visit this page to see a list of pages i still need to check in case i need to stop before i'm done. Or if you want to see if a ceratain page needs to be still updated. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 23:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

text: There are pages outside talkspace that transclude this template. Do you just want to get rid of the "Talk:" in the header and for it to link to the article instead? I'll try using an  on . –Pomte 03:12, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

text: When would you need to specify the target parameter? –Pomte 03:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't think there's any way to do this without requiring a new parameter to specify the article name. –Pomte 21:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a way to get just the page name without the namespace; I think it's  but I don't recall precisely; see M:ParserFunctions for deets on such variables. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 00:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That magic word works for the current page. But when the target parameter is used, it's usually specifying some other page, so it doesn't help in this situation. –Pomte 06:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, right. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 18:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the target parameter work this way??? 

message: Is there any way that priority can be automatically assigned, perhaps by a bot? It's rather a nuisance to go to the article then 'what links here' every time, so if it could be done automatically it would be a great help. Richard001 00:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Priority

message: Would it be possible to add view to the edit, history, etc.? JohnnyMrNinja 04:29, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  View 

message: Is it possible to wrap the links in the second cell of the first row in a span tag with the class of noprint? The cell should still print, but the contents may not need to print. I did a print preview of a page with this on it, and the contents were horribly skewed due to the fact that those links are expanded to show the full urls. A noprint on the contents would make printing this box a little neater, IMO. LA  @ 19:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No print for the contents in the second cell in the first row 

message: What exactly does the priority parameter do or mean?  The examples with the priority parameter look exactly the same as the examples without the priority parameter. Also, is priority=1 high or low? Thanks—G716 <T·C> 04:02, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Priority 

message: I have prepared a new version at . It contains the following changes:
*uses the (t)mbox-* classes;
*has some classes for skinning by users;
*adds a  parameter, as requested above;
*adds parameters to customize the looks (so other todo templates can just use this template): , , , ,  &  (I'll document them as soon as they are implemented);
*adapts automatically to the namespace;
*borrows a bit of the look from ;
*uses relative instead of absolute font sizes;
*abbreviates the editlinks width ;
*doesn't expand them when printing
*doesn't link to the deleted category To do, by priority.
It can be seen in action on some pages already. If there are no comments, I'll request the edit. Thanks. —Ms2ger (talk) 13:20, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please replace the page with the contents of . Thanks. —Ms2ger (talk) 11:02, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. Nice work. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:07, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! —Ms2ger (talk) 18:37, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates 

message: Should we have a similar template that doesn't create a subpage? Creating a subpage is slightly awkward when the list becomes empty, and edits to the list are missed by those only watching the talk page. It also requires an extra edit to add the to-do list to the talk page, which is mildly annoying. A template that is just a part of the talk page but displays more like a to-do list and less like ordinary text might be an alternative or just better than ordinary to-do lists. Richard001 (talk) 23:42, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is already implemented in the sandbox, we just have to wait until an admin edits it in. —Ms2ger (talk) 08:38, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And now merged into the main template. —Ms2ger (talk) 18:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-subpage to do template 

message: This needs an option like many navboxes have, to appear in the page hidden ("rolled up") by default; this would make it more useful on talk pages, where it would be about the size of a WikiProject banner until willfully expanded. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 07:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made revisions here User:Ludwigs2/:test per Wikipedia:Requested_templates#Template:Todo that does what's requested.  it changes the look of the template slightly, however.  if it looks ok to you, I'll ask to have it editprotected in.  --Ludwigs2 04:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've written up another version at  (that takes up some less space and uses the recently agreed on (t)mbox-* classes for TPTs). To compare, please see the testcases. —Ms2ger (talk) 12:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: nice!    --Ludwigs2 17:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And done too. —Ms2ger (talk) 18:54, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hidden-by-default option needed 

message: All the pages that use the template are put into :Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists.
Just wondering if there should be another category, :Category:To do, unused, for example, for pages where the template has been used but the ToDo list hasn't been created.

(assuming I've got all the {} correct)
-- WOSlinker (talk) 00:15, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ruslik (talk) 11:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: Add the russian interwiki (:ru:Шаблон:to_do) in that page, please. Gleb-ax (talk) 14:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Interwiki links should be added to Template:Todo/doc page, which is not protected. Ruslik (talk) 11:19, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The russian interwiki 

message: I've tried installing the  template on Talk:List of Shugo Chara!! Doki— episodes‎ only to have the template spill its guts. I believe this is caused by the !! in the page's title and I cannot find a way to fix this issue other then to recode the template using HTML instead of WikiTable markup. --Farix (Talk) 18:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've updated the sandbox with a version that shouldn't cause problem as well as fix a couple of minor issues as well. --Farix (Talk) 01:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

text: . Please let me know if anything unexpected happens. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template issue 

message: I've fixed a problem with  and  (see testcases) in the sandbox. Please sync. TIA. —Ms2ger (talk) 14:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you —Ms2ger (talk) 10:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Below and priority parameters broken 

message: For some reason, neither of the classes plainlinksneverexpand and plainlinks2 are creating plainlinks on the editlinks at the top of the box. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. plainlinksneverexpand had been deprecated. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:18, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plain links 

message: See User:Bfalexander for an example. That page begins with  and is categorized Wikipedia how-to.  Nowiki the Post-it template and the category goes away. 69.106.253.194 (talk) 22:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed; the problem was with , not . Someone put categories for the template outside a noinclude section. —TKD [talk][c] 22:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I listed Todo as the problem as, to my less experienced eye, Post-it was a redirect.tooold (talk) 03:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

text: btw - "How-to" has a similar problem.  Not sure if anyone is watching it; any chance you can fix that as well?  Thanks 69.106.253.194 (talk) 07:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it and responded on that template's talk page. Until I read your message there, it wasn't clear to me that there was a "similar problem". In 's case, the problem was not that categories for the template itself were being applied to all pages that included it, but rather that we don't want user test pages or transclusions to be categorized in :Category:Wikipedia how-to. —TKD [talk][c] 08:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: template causes page to be included in Category:Wikipedia how-to

message: Is it possible to insert a "to do" list that does not say "to do" at the top? (because it's not for the purpose of a "to do" list, -- I just want to transclude content from another page)
Second, is it possible to have two of these boxes appear next to each other on the same row?  The box on the left will show some wikitext, and the box on the right will show what that wikitext looks like when saved; so that someone can just copy the wikitext from the left if he likes what he sees on the right.
Thanks Agradman talk/contribs 05:53, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  help 

message: This may not be the right place to ask... but I created this template for use on this task force page. I cannot get the template to center itself on the page - it stays left. When I add what I think is the right alignment code, it jumbles up the column on the target page. Extending the template's width to that of the target page's would be acceptable as well - I have been unsuccessful. Thanks. Andyo2000 (talk) 16:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template Justification 

message: Could the copy in the  be copied over to live. The change is so that the  template is no longer used by this template as the code is now used directly. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:11, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of td template 

message: Please sync with the sandbox. It uses a class (with the styling defined in MediaWiki:Common.css) rather than an inline style, which makes it easier to restyle it. TIA. —Ms2ger (talk) 18:49, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class 

message: Please look at Talk:Heath v. Alabama and let me know why the "Goal" in the  is not properly rendered.  Thanks.
72.83.102.154 (talk) 18:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My edits to the sandbox fix this. Could it please be synchronized? —Ms2ger (talk) 20:39, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  headers 

message: When /to_do list does not exist the template shows this preload: Template:Tasks/Preload. In :Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists, unused you will find several examples. In my opinion it is confusing, wastes precious space within the talk page header and moreover it is not necessary. Proposal: an empty list (example) or a message like "The list is empty, click edit to add an item" are more appropriate. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:52, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me. I've also change the categorisation so that userpages are not added to :Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists, unused. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

text: . Thanks,  PeterSymonds (talk) 14:07, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preload 

message: Currently the template seems to break when being used on transcluded subpages. As an example I've left the pages User:Cat-five User:Cat-five/header (all my header info, transcluded into User:Cat-five), and User:Cat-five/header/to_do (the tasks subpage) as is.
To reproduce. If you go to User:Cat-five it will show that there are no tasks however if you go to User:Cat-five/header it will properly show the one item in the list. I've tried telling it specifically use the page but it appears to want a new list for each different transcluded version which is possible but which could cause any number of issues and is kludgy at best. Cat-five - talk 23:37, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure that this is because Todo uses the #rel2abs parser function, which locates the todo list relative to the calling page.  when you call User:Cat-five/header directly, it works fine because rel2abs looks or the list page relative to /header.  however, when you call the header from the main page, rel2abs looks for the list relative to your user page, and can't find it at User:Cat-five/todo.  the way to resolve this, I think, is to use an absolute path - easiest would probably be  though  might work as well.  --Ludwigs2 01:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the help. Just a few technical notes if anyone is interested, using inner as the parameter seems to cause all sorts of formatting glitches on both the header page and the main userpage.  is a good example if anyone's interested. setting the list parameter seems to work perfectly but I haven't admittedly tried very hard to find ways to break it. Cat-five - talk 17:48, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  template seems to break on transcluded subpage 

message: Change the phrase
"To-do list is empty: remove  tag or click on edit add a item." to "To-do list is empty: remove  tag or click on edit to add an item."
--Bensin (talk) 10:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rephrase 

message: Hey guys, I had to transclude and subst To-do template into a subpage of mine, what about adding a parameter color where it goes in the style section. style="border-collapse:separate; background:;"
Thanks in advance. Eduemoni↑talk↓ 20:54, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You can just use the following:  -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add the option to choose the color of the To-do list 

message: One minor update in sandbox to fix name of template. Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 21:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: .  — Edokter (talk) —  22:32, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 23Jan12 

message: You should add the catalan interwiki, it's :ca:Plantilla:Per fer. It would be useful.--KRLS (talk) 17:40, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Can be added in onTemplate:To do/doc in the includeonly section at the end of the page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:56, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add 

message: Stupid question, and if anyone can point me to a good tutorial on how to do this, it would be great ... I work on a private wiki, as a side hobbyist sort of thing, and we're trying to use/import this template over there.  I'm not, however, anywhere near a media wiki genius. We are using MediaWiki: 1.6.5, PHP: 5.2.17 (cgi), and MySQL: 5.0.95-community.  Any pointers for a better place to ask the question would be appreciated.--Vidkun (talk) 15:13, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll leave this question up, although I found my solution - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates#Copying_from_one_wiki_to_another --Vidkun (talk) 15:29, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

text: This Template also requires you to set $wgUseTidy = true; in your LocalSettings.php configuration.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.123.216.226 (talk) 22:24, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using this on another wiki? 

message: AFAICT —Ms2ger (talk) 13:20, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrectly Prefixes Include Page with Template Namespace but Edit Link is Correct 

message: The template docs state that
:Normally, the "/to do" subpage should only be created under the article's Talk page, unless it is a notice board or project page.
I just had a bit of an argument about this with User:Lova Falk, who created Personality psychology/to do, which seems to be in the wrong namespace. It's a redirect that I tried to CSD, but another editor removed the tag. Are to do lists in main space ok? QVVERTYVS (hm?) 19:51, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As I told QVVERTYVS, I did not create that page, the template did...  And the to-do list is also on Talk:Personality psychology... Lova Falk talk 19:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|todo}} list outside of talk namespace 

message: It would be nice if we could set the height, so that the text becomes scrollable once it becomes so large. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:56, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: added to the sandbox as . Frietjes (talk) 16:13, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the quick turnaround! I apologize for my lack of precision, but I intended to say max-height.  I suppose this has more sensitivity to browser support, but I believe all recent versions of major browsers deal with it fine. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  makes sense, added here.  if there are no problems, I will add it to the main template. Frietjes (talk) 16:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again. I just tested it in my user space, and it appears to work perfectly. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:40, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

text: By the way, I recommend calling the param maxheight and saying it won't work on IE8 -- that's the only (kind of) recent version of a browser I know has a bug that prevents this from working. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:44, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height 

message: Please update this template using the  to make the template code easier to read and be HTML5 compliant.  Thank you. —  (e • t • c) 19:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: . ☠ Jaguar ☠ 19:16, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 10 December 2014 

message: If the to-do list is empty, then should the template just not display or should it say something like "There are no active tasks for this page"? At the moment it displays an empty box which looks a bit silly — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:49, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: either option would work for me.  would be easy to add 'display:none' to the outer table. Frietjes (talk) 17:05, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That would make it impossible to add tasks, as the edit link will disappear. -- User:Edokter  17:31, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  okay, then "There are no active tasks for this page" Frietjes (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: So. When the To-do list is empty on an article talk page...but the to-do sub-page still exists, what is the proper procedure?  Can I just delete the template from the main talk?  Does "There are no active tasks for this page" exist as a result-parameter?  (See Talk:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/to do and Talk:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 06:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Shearonink, now added to template:tasks. Frietjes (talk) 16:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blank to-do list 

message: I've tried to set the for parameter but it doesn't work at all when the to do list is set to be small. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:18, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you provide some more details? Where do you use it? On Wikipedia and which one? What output do you get, can you show a screenshot? --Escalator~enwikibooks (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the first todo list on the page WP:Loutasks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:55, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  For parameter not operative when "small=yes" set 

message: Hello.  I unsuccessfully tried to as a test use for= to transclude the todo-list of another page/project.  The test is in my sandbox here.  I tried with various case, with underlines, with links...  Perhaps this is not supposed to work, or is broken?  Thanks, —░]PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ?ERROR░ 11:29, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: you will have to set the list parameter, like in my example in the previous thread -- that is what transcludes the todo list.  for relates to how you title it. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:52, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I have just discovered this from the above-example, and successfully made my test work.  Super! —░]PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ?ERROR░ 11:55, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  <code>for=</code> parameter 

message: Since Special:Diff/789301802 assumably, no categorization occurs into :Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists unless |nocats=no is explicitly given.
The documentation makes me want to believe it was intended to add categorization by default, with opt-out using |nocats=yes. Oddly enough, /testcases page has the category in it.
Can this be changed (back) to adding categorization by default, with opt-out mechanism? 2001:2003:54FA:D2:0:0:0:1 (talk) 09:57, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  <code>nocats</code> defaults to "yes"? 

message: Just a minor issue: when you try to import this template onto another wiki, some tr and td tags are in the source (caused by $wgUseTidy) instead of the wiki markup. The template won´t work in such way, as tr/td tags are forbidden by default.  I would say a note about this issue somewhere on doc page would be helpful for other users.
{| class="   t-todo" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 4px; "
:
|-
: The above note was added in 2015 by User:Escalatr. Now in 2018 I'm seeing the same issue but this seems to apply to all templates loaded from this site. At first I though I had to HTML-encode everything, so all the <tr tags needed to be <tr. But then the template pushed raw HTML into content. It occurred to me that the template code wasn't being parsed. And that's because for my new installation I had not activated a parser. So with it built-in to WM v1.30.0, the following in LocalSettings fixed it all up:
: wfLoadExtension( 'ParserFunctions' );
: Summary: You need to load the ParserFunctions extension to use Templates. Why isn't this documented? Or am I missing something? --GravaT (talk) 22:27, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template source not showing correctly 

message: Unless the parameter nopreload is explicitly set to yes, then a newly created todo list is preloaded with a blank  template. As a first-time todo user, I was confused about how to proceed from here. A few issues that contributed to my confusion/dissatisfaction:
* The template docs for  don't mention  (other than a link provided under "See also" at the bottom without explanation). All the examples shown at  use 'vanilla' formatting, rather than .
* I found the meaning of the many parameters for  (requests, assess, category, citations, fac, far, flc, fsc, gan, gar...) were not self-explanatory. The preloaded template didn't include any placeholder values or html comments hinting at how to use the parameters. The documentation at the  page is also not great.
* I was trying to create a todo list for an article, as described at the WP:TODO information page. But I eventually came to the understanding that most of the fields of  are intended for WikiProjects, not individual pages. e.g. the requests field, which is supposed to relate to article requests.
Here's a comment from another editor in 2016 who shared my frustration.
I've reviewed a random sample of pages in :Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists. Of articles that use to-do lists (not counting articles that are in this category because of a WikiProject banner that transcludes the project todo list), it seems like the majority do not use . (Talk:Aloha shirt is one of the few examples I could find that did, and it's interesting to note that editor misunderstood the "requests" field, using it to mention a request for new photos).
I'd like to propose no longer defaulting this preload behaviour on. I imagine that most users of this template are applying it to talk pages for mainspace articles, not WikiProjects. And as I've outlined above, I think  preloading is more confusing than helpful for articles.
Various implementation options include:
# only preload if nopreload is explicitly set to no
# deprecate nopreload and add a preload with opposite semantics which defaults to no
# get rid of preloading behaviour altogether
I would be fine with any of these options. Colin M (talk) 21:20, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: don't default to preloading with <nowiki>{{tasks}}</nowiki> 

message: There is a proposal to change the behavior of  to make the content collapsible. Interested editors are invited to give feedback on the talk page. Wugapodes [thɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 17:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed changes to {{tl|refideas}} 

message: The documentation should specify HOW to remove this, or editors will simply remove the template (and leave the subpage). CapnZapp (talk) 14:29, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal instructions