[WikiEN-l] Servers down?

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Summit 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.
Of course it's useless, but we need to keep it as a test to figure out 
if they're smart enough to build a sandbox of their own where they can 
say, "Hello World."

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