Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:41 UTC
People currently using template to put some usefull information for newbies in wikipedia's sandbox. But user can unintentionally remove the info since the sandbox is for experiments. Could you perhaps make a system message that contain information to be put in sandbox, so the information will be displayed at sandbox but noneditable by users.
And the various bots which run to replace this information and clear out the other rubbish, at least on the larger wikis, are no good because...?
Okay, sandbot is fine. But this sandbot is not generally available to all wikis.
(In reply to comment #2) > Okay, sandbot is fine. But this sandbot is not generally available to all wikis. I'd imagine Jason (AllyUnion, the user who runs the things) would be more than happy to provide it to other wikis. If not directly, I'm sure the source code is available, and I'm damn sure that some of the other wikis have people who'd be competent in running the thing. As for the real small ones; they probably don't get enough visitors to warrant having a sandbox cleanup bot anyway.
