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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Zoney (talk | contribs) at 11:18, 29 July 2004 (→Ideas: slightly amend my amended previous comment for accuracy to the original). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The preliminary discussion for this is at the Village pump. It may be moved here in the future.
Comments from Peer Review should be made here though.

Usage

I like the idea. It may be tricky to get people to use it properly, considering that one can't police it (one for each article). There'll be people breaking every rule/suggestion here. The other pages will be ignored (cleanup, peer review, etc). Most likely rule to be broken is "a todo list is not a place for experimental ideas (these should be discussed first to reach a consensus)".

Zoney 23:24, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

We'll see how it develops in practice, I suppose. I would think that regular editors of the corresponding article will watch the todo list, just as they watch the article and the talk page, so that they will be some form of control. It will be in the interest of all to agree on the todo. Pcarbonn 11:10, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Ideas

Now, if one could dynamically generate the "cleanup" and "pages needed attention" (at least) from the to-do lists, that would be, well, great! So a page with a certain number of to-do items would appear on specialised list pages, either generated on request, or updated regularly by a script (if on-request generation would involve too much server load). If one could rank urgency on the to-do lists this would be great for computer-generated pages also! Seriously, one could do away with the awkward cleanup and pages needing attention pages!

Additionally, the items on a users to-do suggestion box (or whatever it's called) could be randomly picked using these parameters (no. of items, urgency of items) from the page-specific to do lists.

I hope all that sounds coherent! I've just gotten a list of what one could call to-do items from posting an article on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates (it was on Wikipedia:Peer review for a week previous without comment). I love the idea of a to-do list for each page, because in the situation described, people might have contributed all along to a to-do list.

Zoney 23:24, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hey, why not. I think these are good ideas. Let's investigate how it could be done in practice. (I'm afraid that some of this would require some changes in the Wiki engine, so it may take some time before getting there.) Pcarbonn 11:10, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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