Help:My sandbox

For related races, see 2000 United States elections.

2000 United States presidential election

November 7, 2000
538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	54.2% 2.5 pp
File:Pat Buchanan Nominee Elizabeth Dole Al Gore Pat Buchanan Party Republican Democratic Reform Home state North Carolina Tennessee Virginia Running mate George Pataki Joe Lieberman Ezola Foster Electoral vote 271 266 States carried 30 20 + DC Popular vote 50,456,002 50,999,897 1 Percentage 47.9% 48.4%
Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Dole/Pataki and blue denotes those won by Gore/Lieberman. One of D.C.'s three electors abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.
President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President Elizabeth Dole Republican

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',
 '/w/index.php?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, but the defining proposal was in December 2011. A Gadget proposal in January 2012 resulted in the addition of My Sandbox. The gadget was replaced by mw:Extension:SandboxLink in April 2015.

See also

• Wikipedia:About the Sandbox
• Wikipedia:Drafts