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