A userspace draft is a draft, in a Wikipedia user's userspace, of material which will ultimately go into Wikipedia. To create your own userspace, you need to create a user account, and to create pages in your userspace, you need to be logged in.
Explanation:
- Every registered user account on Wikipedia has its own "userspace" - for instance, User:Example/Lipsum is a page in User:Example's userspace.
- Userspace is part of Wikipedia, and its use is governed by community rules (Ownership and editing of pages in the user space), but is not part of the encyclopedia. (The encyclopedia part of Wikipedia is called "mainspace" - eg Lorem ipsum is a page in mainspace.)
- Drafts are typically done on a "user subpage" (eg User:Example/Lipsum).
 Note: be sure to leave Special:Mypage/ intact - it's a code which knows where your userspace is. |
Cleaning up after yourself:
- As a courtesy, when you have a page in your userspace you no longer need, edit it to add {{db-userreq}} at the top. It will be deleted shortly.
See also
- Wikipedia:User page
- Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft
- The Article Wizard walks you through creating an article, and has an option to save as a userspace draft.
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