Steve Summit wrote:
Alex wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Nathan nawrich@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."
Ec