TemplateSandbox will go live soon!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sumana Harihareswara</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sumanah@wikimedia.org">sumanah@wikimedia.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:51 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Template sandbox - new feature to help you improve & make templates<br>To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <<a href="mailto:wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org">wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Update: I see that TemplateSandbox is now LIVE on Meta, Commons, and<br>
the other non-Wikipedia WMF wikis! It'll be going live to English<br>
Wikipedia on Monday 3 December and all other Wikipedias on Wednesday 5<br>
December. Sorry for wrongly saying that it wasn't going live on most<br>
WMF sites yet.<br>
<br>
It'd be great if you could help by translating TemplateSandbox on<br>
translatewiki <a href="https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&taction=translate&group=ext-templatesandbox&language=ru&limit=100&task=untranslated" target="_blank">https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&taction=translate&group=ext-templatesandbox&language=ru&limit=100&task=untranslated</a><br>
and by spreading the word about this new feature to template editors<br>
in your community. Thanks!<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
Sumana Harihareswara<br>
Engineering Community Manager<br>
Wikimedia Foundation<br>
<br>
<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Sumana Harihareswara<br>
<<a href="mailto:sumanah@wikimedia.org">sumanah@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> "TemplateSandbox" lets you preview a page with a change in a template it<br>
> uses.<br>
><br>
> At the bottom of the edit form in the Template and Module namespaces, a<br>
> new box will appear that allows you to preview other pages as they would<br>
> appear if you saved the template/module you are currently editing.<br>
> Example: try editing the sample "thank-you" template<br>
> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Thankyou" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Thankyou</a> . On the edit form,<br>
> under the Save button, you'll see "Preview page with this template" --<br>
> try User_talk:Example_user .<br>
><br>
> Or, go to<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:TemplateSandbox" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:TemplateSandbox</a><br>
><br>
> and give it the "sandbox prefix" User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/sandbox and<br>
> tell it to "render page" User_talk:Example_user . You'll see the ugly<br>
> changes I made to the template in my sandbox.<br>
><br>
> More information at<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#New_feature_needs_testing" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#New_feature_needs_testing</a> .<br>
> You can check this out in the new version of MediaWiki, now live on<br>
> <a href="http://mediawiki.org" target="_blank">mediawiki.org</a>, but until we have more feedback and improvements we<br>
> aren't pushing it live on the other sites.<br>
><br>
> We figure this will make it easier for people to hack on templates, and<br>
> to develop new Lua templates to replace wikitext templates.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Sumana Harihareswara<br>
> Engineering Community Manager<br>
> Wikimedia Foundation<br>
<br>
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