Training modules/dashboard/slides/11208-sandboxes

Sandboxes

Your "sandbox" is a personal wiki page where you can practice editing, plan out articles, draft articles, or just experiment, without impacting the article "mainspace” on Wikipedia — which is what we call "live" articles.

While you may have seen elsewhere that it's a bad idea to copy and paste an entire article into your sandbox, it's perfectly OK to paste a foreign-language Wikipedia article into your sandbox.

However, it's very important that you copy and paste the WikiCode, not just the article.

• Click "Edit source" at the very top of the article. You'll see the source code.
• Copy the source code.
• Paste the source code into your sandbox, and save it.
• Verify that the original references have carried over to your sandbox version.

If the references don't appear, do the following:

• Check that the bottom of the page has a "Notes" or "References" section. If not, type: ==Notes==.
• Check that the Notes section either has the text {{reflist}}</code> or <code><nowiki><references />. If not, type: {{reflist}}. This determines where your references will appear on the page.

Adding this back in should auto-generate a list of references you've carried over. However, you can always reference the "Citing your sources" training module.