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ToDoList Release status: experimentalCategory:Experimental extensions
Implementation	Tag Category:Tag extensions
Description	The ToDoList extension provides a simple checklist functionality.
Author(s)	Urfiner (Nikolai Kochkin)
Latest version	0.1.0
MediaWiki	1.43Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
License	MIT License
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net . Category:Extensions in GitHub version control
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit Category:ParserFirstCallInit extensions

The ToDoList extension provides a simple checklist functionality. Checklists are stored on wikipages, so each check/uncheck produces a page edit.

Checklists can form a list using standard MediaWiki functionality:

Installation

To install the extension:

1. Clone the repository to your extensions/ subfolder: git clone https://github.com/Griboedow/ToDoList.git
2. Load the extension in your LocalSettings.php: wfLoadExtension( 'ToDoList' );

Usage

To create a checklist:

1. Insert checkboxes via "<todo/>" parser function or via "Insert->Checkbox" in Visual editor:

   

2. Save the page
3. In "read" mode you can check and uncheck your checkboxes. Each state change produces a page edit:

   

Known issues

It is an experiemntal extension, so it has many serious limitations:

1. The extnesion parses wikitext in JS to modify corresponding checkbox state. That means it does not work well with transclusion or <nowiki> tag.
2. The extension does not detect edits done by another user. For example, if someone else modifies a page, you will override their changes with your own. For that reason it is highly recommended to update you wiki page after you've checked/unchecked everything you wanted to verify the actual state of a page.

See also

The extension idea comes from these two extensions:

• Extension:Checklist
• Extension:Checklists

But the goal was to get rid of any BlueSpice dependency and make it simple.