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My sandbox is a feature which gives you a place to practice editing, either to build a draft for later publication in the main encyclopedia, or just to practice formatting with wiki markup syntax. If you have an account, you will see a link in the upper right corner of the screen (in the drop-down menu if you are using WP:VECTOR2022) that says "Sandbox"; this will take you to your sandbox.

The link opens a user subpage Special:MyPage/sandbox. If the page does not exist then it is opened for editing with {{ User sandbox}} added to the top of the editing window. The template notifies readers that the page is a sandbox, not an article, and it prevents the page from being indexed by search engines.

Renaming an existing sandbox page

If you want to rename (move) your sandbox, see Wikipedia:How to rename your sandbox.

Customizing

Removing

The sandbox link was previously a gadget but is now a built-in feature. It cannot be disabled in preferences but it can be removed by placing this in your CSS:

li#pt-sandbox { display: none !important; }

The feature lacks feature-settings to support customization; however, it can be removed and a JavaScript version created in userspace.

Moving to toolbar

To create a toolbar link to Special:MyPage/sandbox.

mw.util.addPortletLink(
 'p-personal',
 '/?title=Special:MyPage/sandbox&action=edit&preload=Template:User_sandbox/preload&editintro=Template:User_sandbox',
 'My sandbox',
 'pt-mysandbox',
 'Go to your sandbox',
 null,
 '#pt-preferences'
 );

To remove autoedit:

var NoEditSandbox = $('#pt-mysandbox a').slice(0,1).attr('href', '/wiki/User:' + wgUserName + '/sandbox');

My subpages

If you have multiple sandboxes or other user subpages, it may be more useful to show a list of your subpages:

Ensure you replace username with your username.
 mw.util.addPortletLink(
 'p-personal',
 '/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:username',
 'My subpages',
 'pt-mysubpages',
 'Show my subpages',
 null,
 '#pt-preferences'
 );

Discussions

Proposals for My sandbox go back to at least 2008, [1] but the defining proposal was in December 2011. [2] A Gadget proposal in January 2012 resulted in the addition of My Sandbox. [3] The gadget was replaced by mw:Extension:SandboxLink in April 2015. [4]

See also

Notes