User:Dawn Q-A/sandbox

The easy guide to setting up a page from scratch starts here
First you will need to set yourself up with a Wikipedia account.

Next set up your sandbox

Setting up a sandbox
The Wikipedia Sandbox is a page designed for testing and experimenting with wiki syntax.

The Sandbox was created as a place with fewer rules and policies than other pages on Wikipedia. For example, you don't have to follow the Manual of Style or reach community consensus before making a major change. However, it must not be used for malicious purposes, and policies such as no personal attacks, civility, and copyrights still apply.

If you have a username, you can create your own sandbox in your userspace. You can find your user sandbox here []. (And if it doesn't exist yet, feel free to create it!) For future easy access, you can put on your userpage.

To set up a sandbox you can simply type sandbox into the search panel on the top right hand side of the screen and hit enter.

Specialized sandboxes

 * Wikipedia talk:Sandbox exists for testing talk page techniques.
 * X1 to X9 exist for testing Template-space techniques.
 * Category:X1 exists for testing category techniques.
 * User talk:Sandbox for user warnings, for testing semi-automatic user warning tools.
 * File:Image page sandbox.png exists for testing editing on file description pages.
 * Sandboxes in other languages can be found in a list on the lower left of the English Wikipedia Sandbox. Although using sandboxes in other languages may be useful on certain occasions, it is important to keep in mind that, unless interwiki links are used, each Sandbox can only access the links, images, and templates on the Wikipedia in which it is located.

To make any amendments to your page, always remember to click Edit on the right hand side of the page and remember to click the Save Page button on the bottom left hand side of the page.

Editing Text and creating headings
Click the Help link in the tool bar, which will give you all your formatting options.

Starting with formatting:
 * To create create bold or italics surround your text with 2 x single quotation marks to create text with an italic feature.

 Italic Text  Bold Txt  Bold & Italic


 * To create text with a bold feature surround your text with 3 x single quotation marks to create Bold Text.


 * To create text with both bold and italic feature surround your text with 5 x single quotation marks to create Bold & italic text.


 * To create bullet or numbered lists enter 1 x asterisk for * Bulleted lists and 1 x hash symbol for # Numbered list before your text.


 * 1) List 1
 * 2) List 2
 * 3) List 3

* Bullet List * Bullet List * Bullet List


 * 1) Number list
 * 2) Number list
 * 3) Number list


 * To make any amendments to your page, always remember to click Edit on the right hand side of the page and remember to click the Save Page button on the bottom left hand side of the page.

Linking to other pages
To create links to other pages
 * 1) Enter the title of the page you wish to link to i.e. Earth Wind & Fire
 * 2) To make it a link wrap the page title in double square brackets Earth Wind & Fire
 * 3) To ensure the link has worked, click the Save Page button on the bottom left hand side of the page and any text seen in blue rather than black has successfully had a link attached.  Click on the text, which will take you to the wikipedia page that you have linked to.

example as follows: Earth Wind & Fire

To make any amendments to your page, always remember to click Edit on the right hand side of the page and remember to click the Save Page button on the bottom left hand side of the page.

Inserting images and files


To insert an embedded file
 * click help on the tool bar
 * click files in the drop-down menu to show an example of how your syntax should be correctly entered
 * surround your syntax with 2 x square brackets so it looks similar to the following:

Don't forget to click the save page at the bottom of the screen

NB for new accounts there is a 4 day period where you are not permitted upload any images.

To make any amendments to your page, always remember to click Edit on the right hand side of the page and remember to click the Save Page button on the bottom left hand side of the page.