Information:About the sandbox

Sandboxes, such as a user's sandbox or the more frequently edited BattleTechWiki:Sandbox, are pages designed for testing and experimenting with wiki syntax and the VisualEditor.

They were created as a place with fewer rules and policies than other pages on BattleTechWiki. For example, you don't have to follow the Manual of Style or reach community consensus before making a major change. However, they must not be used for malicious purposes, and policies such as no personal attacks, civility, and copyrights still apply.

If you have an account, you can create your own sandbox in your userspace. You can find your user sandbox here. If you don't have an account, you can create your sandbox here. (And if it doesn't exist yet, feel free to create it!) For easy access, there is a link labeled "Sandbox" at the top right of every page on either a user icon menu or between the "Talk" and "Preferences" links. You can also put {{My sandbox}} on your userpage.

Creating more sandboxes in your User namespace

To create another sandbox, first make a subpage to your user page in your User namespace:

1. Decide on a name for the subpage, for example: sandbox2
2. Enter the following in the Search box, using your actual username: User:Your username/sandbox2
3. Then click on the reply, "Start the User:Your name/sandbox2 page."
4. Once the page is created, adding the {{user sandbox}} template onto the subpage designates that page as another sandbox. Unlike your primary sandbox, BattleTechWiki does not automatically keep a way to link to these, so be sure either to bookmark it or add a link to it on your userpage; you can also use the Special:PrefixIndex special page to display all the subpages of your user page, including sandboxes.

List of sandboxes

BattleTechWiki namespace

• BattleTechWiki:Sandbox

Draft namespace

• Draft:Sandbox, for testing

Talk namespace

• BattleTechWiki talk:Sandbox, and the talk pages of all other sandboxes, for testing talk page techniques.

User namespace

• User:Sandbox, for testing in the user space.
• Your user sandbox, a personal place to test your editing skills in your own userspace.

User talk namespace

• User talk:192.0.2.16: A place to test gadgets on an IPv4 address.
• User talk:2001:DB8:10:0:0:0:0:1: A place to test gadgets on an IPv6 address.

Template namespace

• {{Template sandbox}} and {{X1}} through {{X5}} exist for testing Template-space techniques.
• {{TemplateStyles sandbox}}, for creating and testing pages with the sanitized-css content model, which can only be created in the template namespace.

Module namespace

• Sub-pages of Module:Sandbox, for creating and testing pages with the scribunto content model, which can only be created in the module namespace.

Category namespace

• Category:X1, Category:X2, or Category:X3, for testing category techniques.

File namespace

• File:Image page sandbox.png, File:Image page sandbox (API upload test).png, and File:Image page sandbox.jpeg for testing editing on file description pages.

See also

• Help:My sandbox