Training modules/dashboard/slides/11208-sandboxes
Sandboxes
[edit]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.