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          <rev xml:space="preserve">[[Category:Admin|Sandbox]]{{:Sandbox top}}
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:center&quot;&gt;'''FEEL FREE TO DELETE ANYTHING BELOW THE DOUBLE LINE,&lt;BR&gt;
'''BUT DON'T TOUCH THE DOUBLE LINE OR ANYTHING ABOVE IT. THANKS. &lt;br&gt;
'''-- The Mgt.&lt;/p&gt;
=WELCOME TO THE SANDBOX=
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          <rev xml:space="preserve">The Sandbox is a place to play.  Use this page for practicing wiki editing, making links, anything! Don't expect anything you put here to last.

*''Learn how to manipulate the Wiki.''
**'''What Can I Do?'''
***I can make things '''bold''' (&lt;nowiki&gt;'''bold'''&lt;/nowiki&gt;).
***I can ''italicize'' (&lt;nowiki&gt;''italicize''&lt;/nowiki&gt;).
***I can timestamp and sign: [[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] 14:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC) (four tildes: &lt;nowiki&gt;~~~~&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
****or just timestamp: 14:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC) (five tildes: &lt;nowiki&gt;~~~~~&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
****or just sign: [[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] (three tildes: &lt;nowiki&gt;~~~&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
***I can make an [http://ldc.upenn.edu external link] ('''&lt;nowiki&gt;[http://ldc.upenn.edu external link]&lt;/nowiki&gt;''' -- space between URL and text).
***I can make an [[Bengali/Bengali|internal link]] ('''&lt;nowiki&gt;[[Bengali/Bengali|internal link]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;''' -- pipe character '|' between page title and text).
   I can make text preformatted and in a box (note, no auto-wrapping). (White space at beginning of line).

Some magic words and what they produce:
*&lt;nowiki&gt;{{SERVER}}&lt;/nowiki&gt;: {{SERVER}}
*&lt;nowiki&gt;{{PAGENAME}}&lt;/nowiki&gt;: {{PAGENAME}}

For much, much more info see [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents Mediawiki's editing help].


[[Category:Admin|Sandbox top]]</rev>
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