Wikipedia 'Template Sandbox' Age Drift
How long Wikipedia’s sandbox templates sit unused before deletion.
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About this data
This page tracks the age of Wikipedia’s sandbox templates—temporary pages used for testing edits. It measures how long these templates remain unused before they are deleted, revealing patterns in editor activity and maintenance priorities. The data comes from Wikipedia’s own logs, capturing median age, the share older than a year, and the 90th percentile to highlight extremes in neglect.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
No existing website, dashboard, or public dataset tracks the lifecycle or age drift of Wikipedia's template sandboxes. Related pages only document template usage or sandbox creation, not inactivity metrics.
Uniqueness score 1.00 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.