Difference between revisions of "User:Zai Lynch/Portfolio"

Revision as of 20:38, 12 March 2009

About this page

I saw other people list their contributions and thought to create a ~~bragger page~~ portfolio too. So here it is (^_^)

It's not complete, but it gives an impression of what I did and do.

Last update: March 13th 2009

Documentation

compiled Help:Editors Toolbox, to list useful templates for Wiki editors
assisted SignpostMarv Martin to migrate to new Office Hour templates, contributed minor bug fixes and wrote the documentation for it
revised and heavily expanded the Quickie Wiki Intro
wrote the History of Second Life article
started and maintained the Help Portal together with Gally Young and design by Kuraiko Yoshikawa
merged various stubs to complete articles (like Land)
expanded various stubs to full articles (like Mega Prim or Instant Message)
created a template to provide a link on the bottom of every LSL function, which links to the related article in the lslwiki.net, to connect information regardless of copyright issues
- manually added a link at the bottom of every function article of lslwiki.net, to link back to the related article in the LSL Portal
- manually added a link at the bottom of every function article of the lslwiki.net mirror at rpgstats.com, to link back to the related article in the LSL Portal (see contributions)
- added a template which does the same for functions localized to German, linking to the related article in localized version of the lslwiki, located at wiki.slinfo.de
compiled a list of shortcuts for SL-UX
created various templates like {{Help}} (and the connected ones), {{Delete}}, {{SLURL2}}, {{User2}}, {{Wikify}} and others
provided most meeting transcripts (as well as their summary) of Simone Linden's office hours

SL Volunteers related

compiled a Mentoring 101 as well as a guide on how to mentor at an Orientation Island
scripted and documented the buddy pannels (no longer in use)
- contribution led to beeing awarded as one of the outstanding mentors for the first quarter of 2008
- recyled some of the scripts to help Mia Linden to set up Linden panels for SL5B
shared suggestions on how to improve the volunteer program and a concept for a VTeam Bot
Guided Second Life apprentice mentors as "apprentice buddy" and co-hosted various German orientation sessions with Shiva Aabye, Lore Lamont and Tom32 Anatine

L10n/i18n

initiated the revision of Project:Languages, in cooperation with Alissa Sabre and SignpostMarv Martin and wrote the documentation for it.
created a youtube video on how to create translations for the SL Wiki
expanded Template:Multi-lang to display automatically generated google translation links (see description)
suggested various changes to Template:Multi-lang, coded and deployed by Strife Onizuka
- Version feature to mark translated articles as out-of-date when the parent page had a significant update
- Articles in need of translation feature to add categories as in need for translation for a certain language, in case no volunteer translation is available
- split of the above mentioned feature to seperate LSL related articles from others, to make finding of an article easier for non-techie linguists
provided minor landscaping and content, as well as the documentation for Localization Central
contributed to the Community Translation Project, beeing named in the top contributions list for the German sub-project
provided an English/German and English/French glossary for SL specific lingo, hosted by Kuraiko Yoshikawa, using official glossary XML files provided by Lexie Linden
founded the German speaking Linguists group, am maintaining their Wiki pages, documenting their activities and hosting their monthly meetings
am co-owner of the Mentor Linguists group, am maintaining their Wiki pages, documenting their activities and hosting their monthly meetings
provided localized LSL templates, as well as some articles in German, in cooperation with Kuraiko Yoshikawa
organized and deployed the localization of Template:Help and related templates, via the Mentor Linguist Scribe Translation Project/HP L10N
- provided the localized Help Portal related Breadcrumbs

Fun

started and made most contributions to the Linden Bear article
maintaining a Wiki spammer ranking
documented funny source code quotes
modded a GPL sightseeing HUD, released it as a freebie and wrote a documentation page for it (not maintained anymore)

Misc

most of my jira bug reports and feature requests are Wiki related
exploited SEC-238 to resolve WEB-590 and WEB-761 (sorry, couldn't resist)
wikified several pages for other users on request (e.g. User:Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers, Business and Marketing on request by Blondin Linden, etc.)
lots of standart Wiki maintainance (like moving userpages in userspaces, correcting typos, wikifying content, fixing syntax, etc.)
see a list of all contributions to this wiki

Zai's Quick Links

Click to Enlarge

My Wiki Stuff

Public Suggestion Box

VTeam Bot

Linden Bear Collection

My SandBox

LSL Goodies

My External Stuff

Usefull Stuff

Unrelated Fun

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 It's not complete, but it gives an impression of what I did and do.
-Last update: March 12th 2009
+Last update: March 13th 2009
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 * created a template to provide a link on the bottom of every LSL function, which links to the related article in the [http://www.lslwiki.net/ lslwiki.net], to connect information regardless of copyright issues
 ** manually added a link at the bottom of every function article of [http://lslwiki.net/ lslwiki.net], to link back to the related article in the [[LSL Portal]]
-** manually added a link at the bottom of every function article of the lslwiki.net mirror at [http://rpgstats.com/ rpgstats.com], to link back to the related article in the [[LSL Portal]]
+** manually added a link at the bottom of every function article of the lslwiki.net mirror at [http://rpgstats.com/ rpgstats.com], to link back to the related article in the [[LSL Portal]] (see [http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Zai_Lynch contributions])
 ** added a template which does the same for functions localized to German, linking to the related article in localized version of the lslwiki, located at [http://wiki.slinfo.de/ wiki.slinfo.de]
-* created various templates like [[Template:Help]] (and the connected ones), [[Template:Delete]], [[Template:SLURL2]], [[Template:User2]], [[Template:Wikify]] and others
+* compiled a [[Shortcuts SL-UX|list of shortcuts for SL-UX]]
+* created various templates like <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Help|Help]]}} (and the connected ones), <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Delete|Delete]]}}, <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:SLURL2|SLURL2]]}}, <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:User2|User2]]}}, <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wikify|Wikify]]}} and others
 * provided most meeting transcripts (as well as their summary) of [[User:Simone_Linden/Office_Hours|Simone Linden's office hours]]
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 * maintaining a [[User:Zai Lynch/Wiki Spammer Ranking|Wiki spammer ranking]]
 * documented funny [[User:Zai_Lynch/SCQ|source code quotes]]
+* modded a GPL sightseeing HUD, released it as a freebie and wrote a [[User:Zai Lynch/Sightseeing|documentation page for it]] (not maintained anymore)
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 * wikified several pages for other users on request (e.g. [[User:Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers]], [[Business and Marketing]] on request by [[User:Blondin Linden|Blondin Linden]], etc.)
 * lots of standart Wiki maintainance (like moving userpages in userspaces, correcting typos, wikifying content, fixing syntax, etc.)
+* see a list of [[Special:Contributions/Zai_Lynch|all contributions to this wiki]]
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