Talk:LSL Portal

Please do not copy content from LSLwiki

From Rob Linden's post to the forum:

Hi folks, sorry for dropping into this conversation late. I haven't read through everything here, but I'd like to present an alternative.

There have been several requests that Linden Lab take on the hosting of the LSL wiki. There are several problems with us doing this work. The primary problem is the question of ownership of the material. Since, to the best of our knowledge, there was never an explicit, consistent notice of ownership of this material throughout its creation, nor a clear assignment/license associated with contributing more material, it would seem the only safe way to license this content would be to contact every single contributor throughout the life of the wiki and get an explicit license or copyright assignment from them. Note that I said "safe", not "practical".

We're not in a position to go down that road. However, we do have wiki.secondlife.com, which has had, since day one, a very clear notice about the license under which contributions are made and distributed. We would be very happy to see the community collaborate on newly created content on wiki.secondlife.com. As long as you author the content (not cut and paste from sources you are not the sole author of), we welcome your contribution. -- Rob Linden 14:30, 24 January 2007 (PST)

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OK, so let's talk about formatting rules for entries.

(Moved to LSL Portal Guidelines, so that this talk doesn't get too cluttered.) -- Talarus Luan 16:32, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Talarus Luan 14:28, 24 January 2007 (PST)

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Other Discussion

Should we make this the front page to the LSL reference, or put that one more level down? I kinda lean toward the former. Gigs Taggart 14:09, 24 January 2007 (PST)

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Yeah i think so... (Unsigned by Dimentox Travanti}

Remember to sign your post with four tildes. Gigs Taggart 14:26, 24 January 2007 (PST)

I used a modified version of the GeSHiHighlight plugin for MediaWiki. With an LSL syntax file. The license for the plugin and for GeSHi is GPL, it also requires another plugin purgePage. --Thraxis Epsilon 15:00, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Regarding copying content from the existing Wiki

This isn't clear from Rob's post, but it should be made clear: we CAN copy our OWN content from the existing wiki. IE, I plan to copy/paste my XML-RPC notes from the existing one. Does that present an issue? If so, why? Talarus Luan 16:03, 24 January 2007 (PST)

If you are the sole author, it wouldn't. Just be careful and check the page history. Gigs Taggart 16:10, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Syntax Highlighting

Updated info on the syntax highlighting is available here [GeSHiHiLight] --Thraxis Epsilon 16:10, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Lets hope they include it soon ^^ Strife Onizuka 21:21, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Is there anyone we can ask? Dimentox Travanti 10:50, 25 January 2007 (PST)

Let's refer to this simply as the "LSL portal"

Since there's already something out there called the "LSLwiki", let's refer to this as the LSL Portal to distinguish it. If there's no objection, I'll move the pages with "LSL Wiki" in the title to some other appropriate name -- Rob Linden 17:09, 24 January 2007 (PST)

No objections here. :) I just updated LSL Wiki To-do with some assignment tables. I went ahead and moved it to LSL Portal To-do Talarus Luan 18:12, 24 January 2007 (PST)

Simple, consistent messaging: I've gotten into the habit of using "LSL Portal" regularly myself.

--Torley Linden 10:40, 31 January 2007 (PST)

A way back...

Every page should have a header that goes back to the portal index not the wiki index. if we could even geta link in the left hand would be great.

Dimentox Travanti 10:47, 25 January 2007 (PST)

Transitions

Encouraging to see this happening — and to see a second mirror for the LSL wiki too; hopefully I haven't come too late, because these developments look like they've transpired over the last few days.

Just wanted to let you know I've added a link to our LSL Portal from our blog's Notices; it'll be up for some time. I'm also going to add a simple article to the Knowledge Base directing to this LSL Portal, since it's important to get more contributors aware, interested, and involved.

I'd like to personally be more active in this wiki... great things are afoot. I've been spread across too many communication channels lately, so I've been rotating between focuses (foci?); hopefully next week I'll have more hands-on energy here.

Thanx to each and all of you building up this resource so far!

--Torley Linden 10:21, 26 January 2007 (PST)

Header/Footer

Below is the header/footer I used... I went ahead and placed it at the top/bottom of this page. Change whatever needs to be changed to finalize it, then start using it. Unless there's a better way, like a global template that I wouldn't know about.

[[LSL Portal|LSL Portal]] | [[:Category:LSL Functions|Functions]] | [[:Category:LSL Events|Events]] | [[LSL Operators|Operators]] | [[LSL Library|Script Library]]

Also, since <lsl> tags don't seem to work yet, I used <(pre)>... hope that's alright, I know nothing about wikis except what I've taught myself tonight. --DoteDote Edison 20:45, 27 January 2007 (EST)

Actually, go ahead and use the <lsl></lsl> tags. Even though it may look like crap right this minute, as soon as the module is installed, it will instantly be perfect. :) Talarus Luan 14:59, 29 January 2007 (PST)

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