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Overview
This article provides help on using the Second Life Wiki. If you're looking for Second Life Help, see the official Knowledge Base or Resident-powered Help Portal.
If you want written instructions, see the Quickie Wiki Intro for information on how to log into the Wiki and how to create your user page. It also provides a manual on how to create new articles in general, how to upload and link pictures, how to track changes and much more!
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The above video tour covers:
- What is a wiki and why does it matter?
- How is this Wiki organized?
- Wiki editing basics
- Using Google to search the Wiki
- Finding the list of Linden Office Hours
- Finding Resident user pages (extended profiles)
- What's the difference between the Wiki and the Knowledge Base?
- Note: This is no longer true. The Knowledge Base is now part of this Wiki.
- Adding videos to Wiki pages with VideoFlash
- Searching the Second Life Wiki inworld
Guidelines
There are a few simple editing guidelines on this wiki. Please:
- Where possible, edit existing pages rather than creating new pages.
- Contribute to articles in the following categories:
Basic Wiki syntax
Description | You type | You get |
Applies anywhere | ||
Italic Writing |
''italic'' |
italic |
Bold text |
'''bold''' |
bold |
Bold and italic |
'''''bold & italic''''' |
bold & italic |
Internal link (within SLwiki) |
[[name of page]] |
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Redirect to another page |
#redirect [[Target page]] |
1. redirect Target page |
External link (to other websites) |
[http://www.example.com] |
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Sign your posts |
~~~~ |
Username 18:54, |
Don't interpret text |
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Applies only at the beginning of the line | ||
Headings of different sizes |
==level 1== |
Headings of different levels. |
Horizontal rule |
---- |
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Bulleted list |
* list item a |
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Numbered list |
# first list item |
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Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists |
* list item X |
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Definition |
;Technical Term |
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Indentation |
: italicized text (indented) |
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Preformatted text (boxed text) |
add a space at the beginning of the line to create preformatted text in a box |
add a space at the beginning of the line |
Thumbnail image |
[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]] |
LSL Script Highlighting & Indentation
Use <lsl> before the script & </lsl> after the script <lsl>default { state_entry() { llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); } touch_start(integer total_number) { llSay(0, "Touched: "+(string)total_number); } }</lsl>
Templates
There are a number of SL-specific templates created for use on this wiki.
Template | Usage |
{{SL-hCard}} | Creates a user profile in hCard format |
{{SLurl}} | Creates a link to an SL location |
{{User_ICQ}} | Creates a Link to the ICQ-Userprofile |
{{Skills}} | Adds your userprofile to categories indicating a certain skill |
{{Visl}} | For Second Life Volunteers |
Extensions
See Help:Extensions for information on using wiki extensions.
Editing Help
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