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=translate&group=ext-templatesandbox&language=ru&limit=100&task=untranslated 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
