This is a test instance of
Wikidata
. It is not the same as the
production website
. It is also not a generic MediaWiki testing site: please use
the test instance of Wikipedia
(or
the secondary test instance
) for testing unrelated to the Wikibase extension. For more advanced testing, you may wish to simply
set up your own copy
of MediaWiki and
install Wikibase
.
All items here are sandboxes; You can
find a random item to edit
, or
create a new one
.
You may use
testwiki
and
test2wiki
as test clients.
The Wikidata Test Wiki is not:
- a place to put content or anything meaningful.
- an arena to play with administrator's tools. If you want to get additional rights, see
Wikidata:Requests for permissions
.
- where nonsense items will stick.
- a web host or wiki host.
- where you can get away with everything.
- where libel will be tolerated.
- a community.
The Test Wikidata is for developers to test their code without breaking all of Wikimedia, and blowing the world up.
The Test Wikidata may also be used in a classroom environment for teaching basic Wikidata editing to avoid the great confusion resulting from creating pages and breaking a regular project, although this may not always be desirable because of the occasional difference between the test interface and a typical Wikimedia project interface.
