[WikiEN-l] Servers down?

[David Gerard]

On 16/01/2008, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> > On 16/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Why does it not simply have a "Create your own sandbox" box (like at
> > > WP:RFCU) or redirect into an individual [[User:Myusername/Sandbox]]?

> > New editors would be better off using an offical one.

> I disagree.  I found the official sandbox perfectly useless when
> I started editing Wikipedia, and that was several years ago.
> The first thing I did was find out how to set up my own sandbox,
> so I could try some test edits in peace, without other people's
> edits (and, in particular, blankings) interfering with my own.
> Such contention can only be worse (much worse) by now.


Lots of editors set up their own sandbox, but the current sandbox is
still used by n00bs. I suppose a "set up your own" link would be a
nice thing to put there, of course.


- d.