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To get there, type "Template:foo" in the search box (see search), or make a wikilink like [[Template:foo]] somewhere, such as in the sandbox, and click on it. Once you are there, just click "edit" or "edit this page" at the very top of the page (not the documentation edit button lower down) and edit it in the same way that you would any other page.
The /sandbox may not have the latest version of the template code in it, so before you make a change, you need to synchronize it with the main template. Copy the entire contents of the main template to the /sandbox subpage, and save the page. Your edit summary should be something like "synchronize with the main template", or simply "sync".
English: A tutorial that walks through creating a sandbox page as a user subpage on Wikipedia. The script is available at User:Sross (Public Policy)/Sandbox script. The .odp slideshow is available on request.
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MediaWiki::API – Basic interface to the API, allowing scripts to automate editing and extraction of data from MediaWiki driven sites. MediaWiki::Bot – A fairly complete MediaWiki bot framework written in Perl. Provides a higher level of abstraction than MediaWiki::API. Plugins provide administrator and steward functionality.
For a tutorial, see either Ierusalimschy 2006 (Ierusalimschy 2003 is also available, although it is of course out of date.) or Jung & Brown 2007. The downsides to these books are that quite a lot of the things that they tell you about have no bearing upon using Lua in MediaWiki modules.
Do NOT, under any circumstances, place promotional, copyrighted, offensive, or libelous content in sandbox pages. Repeatedly doing so WILL get you blocked from editing. For more info about sandboxes, see Wikipedia:About the sandbox and Help:My sandbox. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial. Questions? Try the ...
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