[HN Gopher] Wikipedia: Sandbox
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       Wikipedia: Sandbox
        
       I was learning about Wikipedia recently and thought it was
       interesting there was a global, public page specifically for
       writing random stuff to learn how to use their editor. I assumed
       there would be something like this on a per-user, invisible to the
       public level, but not a global level like this page.
        
       Author : zaptrem
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2026-01-30 21:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tonymet wrote:
       | There are both, every user has their own sandbox. But this one is
       | there to encourage first time visitors and the uninitiated to
       | make changes , so they know that anyone can contribute
       | uninhibited.
        
         | kemayo wrote:
         | Though, just to be clear, the per-user ones are also public.
         | They're just a convention where if you make a subpage of your
         | user page and call it "Sandbox", nobody is going to complain
         | about the encyclopedic value of your edits.
        
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