Thanks for starting this, Sam. A couple of points:

• I like the flexibility of W-Ping, but each list entry is connected to an existing article/page (and there can be only one entry for a page). I might occasionally want to make a task to create an article or draft that doesn't exist yet, or even a task related to multiple pages.
• Multiple lists, public vs private: in the Discord chat I phrased this as: a public [list] for "Here's what I'm working on, happy for others to pitch in", and a private one for stuff that needs more gestation time.

Thanks for considering this! To respond to your questions:

• I think to-do lists can be public or private. I don't mind presenting my tasks to other issues, and I think this is quite normalised, but given that there are users who may have to do more confidential stuff (like WMF staff or admins), I think there should be an option to hide it publicly.
• Yeah, might be useful, especially for closely named stuff (like species of animals). I also think there should be some categorisation for the tasks, like tags or priority
• Honestly, I wouldn't mind both.
• I think it should be done automatically. Per my Discord comment, I'd like it to be a checkbox-based list. Once you finish a task, you can simply click on the checkbox, and it will be automatically removed. I think it's better to remove completed items so that it reduces clutter and banner blindness.

I look forward to seeing this idea come to fruition :)

Research established solutions for to-do lists and pick up ideas maybe? E.g. start with Todoist. Also think of integrations with other MediaWiki workflows, APIs, and tools so that to-do lists are more than simple lists and can leverage all mentioned to give rise to emergent capabilities.

Existing English Wikipedia to-do list user scripts:

• User:SD0001/W-Ping, mentioned in the task description
• User:Evad37/ToDoLister
• User:BrandonXLF/TodoList, stored in user options
• User:קיפודנחש/pageCollector

In T408987#11369608, @Jack_who_built_the_house wrote:

Existing English Wikipedia to-do list user scripts:

• User:SD0001/W-Ping, mentioned in the task description
• User:Evad37/ToDoLister
• User:BrandonXLF/TodoList, stored in user options
• User:קיפודנחש/pageCollector

Thank you! Incorporated these into the task description.

Agree that multiple to-do lists could be helpful, especially if we can set each to public vs private, or just want to sort them by theme. Having reminders might be less of a necessity (although I wouldn't be opposed to it), but something that could be great would be the ability to set a priority for each list element. I also like the aforementioned idea of making it checkbox-based for intuitiveness!

Is there an explanation somewhere why this would be useful or needed despite that users can just store them in their local text-editor / notes / todos app?

Probably the ability to share them with other users would be a use-case/benefit (edit: there's curate in the title) – for that maybe these could be integrated with what's proposed here so todos / sets of todos can find people who may be interested in them.

I wonder though if there's any other benefits and also there is some overlap in use-cases with Notes for watchlisted pages (which could also be adopted by the bookmarks / saved pages).

This is a good question and worth thinking about - it was my first thought too. A couple of potential benefits, in addition to sharing:

• Features like "Add to my todo list" could be a one-click link on an article or within other software features, rather than you needing to copy/paste URLs or page names elsewhere.
• The list would always be available if you're logged in to WP, making it accessible across devices.