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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 that says "Sandbox"; this will take you to your sandbox.
{{Side box|text=<big>'''Note''': You can also use the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|community sandbox]] to experiment with editing.</big>|imageright=[[File:Sandbox.svg|42px]]}}
The link opens a user subpage [[Special:MyPage/sandbox]]. If the page does not exist then it is opened for editing with {{tl|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.

== Moving an existing sandbox page ==

If you have an existing sandbox that is not named "sandbox", then you can move it. See [[Help:How to move a page]].

== 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 {{yourcss}}: 
<syntaxhighlight lang=css>li#pt-sandbox { display: none !important; }</syntaxhighlight>

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]].

<syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
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'
 );
</syntaxhighlight>

To remove autoedit:
<syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
var NoEditSandbox = $('#pt-mysandbox a').slice(0,1).attr('href', '/wiki/User:' + wgUserName + '/sandbox');
</syntaxhighlight>

===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.
<syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
 mw.util.addPortletLink(
 'p-personal',
 '/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:username',
 'My subpages',
 'pt-mysubpages',
 'Show my subpages',
 null,
 '#pt-preferences'
 );
</syntaxhighlight>

== Discussions ==

Proposals for My sandbox go back to at least 2008,<ref>[[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 46#Proposal: add "my sandbox" link to top navbar]]</ref> but the defining proposal was in December 2011.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 83#Add link to sandbox on the top right corner]]</ref> A Gadget proposal in January 2012 resulted in the addition of My Sandbox.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals/Archive 4#My Sandbox]]</ref> The gadget was replaced by [[:mw:Extension:SandboxLink]] in April 2015.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 136#Sandbox link]]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:About the Sandbox]]
* [[Wikipedia:Drafts]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

{{Wikipedia help pages}}