Category:Sandboxes

Sandboxes are wiki maintenance pages that are used to test how content and formatting appear before committing the edits to a mainspace page on the wiki.

Community Sandbox
The community Sandbox is for any user, even anonymous users, to use. This public Sandbox is periodically blanked (all its content removed) after its recent editors have not used it in more than two or more weeks. All Sandbox page history is permanently archived and can be restored from any saved version, if necessary.

Personal Sandboxes
Other Sandboxes in this category are personal Sandboxes that have the Sandbox template at the top of the page. These personal Sandboxes are used by the person that made them, and are usually named after the person using them. To make a personal Sandbox: go to the community Sandbox page, then type  followed by your username or other alias in the url.

An alternative method is to type  after your username when on your profile page. However, this method does not allow for proper testing of how mobile looks and performs when the Sandbox is saved, as user profiles and any subpage of userpages will always force desktop mode, even when on mobile with desktop mode off. Therefore, making subpages from the community Sandbox page is optimal, as it is a mainspace page. For more information, please see the section of the  blog post.