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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.
Creating an account gives you access to a personal sandbox, among other benefits. Please do not place copyrighted, offensive, illegal or libelous content in the sandboxes. 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 ...
We will be writing a user script by modifying your common.js. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will write a simple version of the Quick wikify module, which adds the {{Wikify}} maintenance template to the top of an article when you click a link called "Wikify" in the "More" menu.
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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".
This page will collect various techniques for achieving common tasks needed in writing user scripts. Discussion about limitations, relative portability, and speed of the various alternatives is strongly encouraged.
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.
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