Difference between revisions of "Talk:Help Portal"

Revision as of 22:42, 5 September 2008

Welcome to the Help Portal's suggestions page !

Portal's documentation (categories&templates) can be found here.
Previous discutions can be found here Archive 1 (Portal creation discution)

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New Contents

Several pages must be converted into categories (and pages) :
- User:Lum_Pfohl/Troubleshooting
  - a lots of interesting information, I will ask Lum if she's ok.
    - asked Lum and she's happy to provide her content in order to support this project =) (Zai Lynch)

Translations

I think we can start preparing stuff for translations. Like moving the French and German translations of the FAQ and Glossary (since these are the ones we're able to understand). I'm just trying to fix Template:Help/de in a way that it becomes usable for the new Project:Languages criteria. Will ask Asuka again and then rewrite the article. See Project:I18n/native feature migration. We don't really need the native feature to do that yet. See Project talk:I18n/native feature migration#Bridging the gap until implementation. The feature is already implemented in Template:Multi-lang (I was just to blind to recognize). The Template:Help/de works as intended in the sandbox but refuses to work in here (since it's an older mediawiki version...). I'll need to spend more time on thinking how to fix it... So all articles should have names in the articles language to be usable for people. Same for categories. NAME/fr and NAME/de would just be used for redirects or in case of colliding names (like anywhere in the LSL Portal. So LSL stays as is.) I need some sleep now... ^_^
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:02, 18 August 2008 (PDT)

Teen Section

I was wondering if Teen Second Life could have a section on the Help Portal with TSL links etc?. For example TSL Volunteers Portal, TSL FAQ and along with my TSL wiki page.

Daniel Voyager [5:24], 30th August 2008 (PDT)

It seems a good idea! ^^

This FAQ is already available in the misc section but maybe a dedicated section in "1st step" or "advanced help" would be better if you have more links ^^. Don't forget to add the Help template in your pages. Gally Young 05:09, 31 August 2008 (PDT)

Sub category

The portal has quickly grown ^^ I think sub cat are needed in order to simplify the navigation. I propose the following sub cats :

Category:Help/Avatar :
Category:Help/Object :
Category:Help/Creation (NEW CAT ^^):
Category:Help/Multimedia :
- Category:Help/Machimina
- Category:Help/Voice redurect => Category:Voice
- Category:Help/Parcel Media
- Category:Help/Snapshot
Category:Help/Communication :
Category:Help/Community :
Category:Help/Navigation :
Category:Help/Land :
- Category:Help/Parcel
- Category:Help/Simulator
Category:Help/Viewer :
Category:Bug Fixes :

Gally Young 14:56, 3 September 2008 (PDT)

Heyas Gally! =)

Hmm... I can see that the categories grew and that further sorting might be(come) useful. But I'm not yet sure about how to manage this many. Should we provide them all in the Template:Help? The full spec would become rly long-ish and hard(er) to use. While having a sub-template for each of the main categories might not be an improvement either... What would be your suggestion? Having it as part of the help template, as extra-template or categorize by hand? Or maybe we can strip some down... I mean: How many articles about the "Space Navigator" do we expect? I'm not sure if it deserves an own category then. Same with "Groups" for example. I think another way to reduce the category cluttering could be, to start with merging related articles. This is useful as long as an article is still small. I'd rather want to have one long and detailed article describing a viriaty of aspects related to one subject than having 10 micro articles. So searching and merging related articles should be one of hour goals too. I just added the page Help:Open Wiki Tasks to adress this problem. (Btw: great sorting with the "Bug Fixes" SubCats "Linux", "Mac" and "Lag", impliying that "Windows" = "Lag". I had a great laugh reading that and think you are right (^_^); )

Greetz,

Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:42, 5 September 2008 (PDT)

BlipTV vs. videoflash

I think we are going to have problems with vidtut. Vidtut are now hosted by http://blip.tv and <videoflash type="blip">http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/1105701/</videoflash> and <videoflash type="flv">http://blip.tv/file/get/Lindenlab-VoiceChatCustomizeSpeechGestures274.flv</videoflash> are not running in this wiki, but maybe I'm doing something wrong... Who could help us on this point ? Gally Young 10:33, 11 August 2008 (PDT)

Hm... i looked in the documentation and blip.tv doesn't seem to be supported by default. It might be possible to just add the line

<php>$url['blip'] = 'http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/' . $id;</php>

to the extension code. But it's just a guess out of consistency to the others, since I got no idea about PHP. It should then work with

(might need to add info about width and height to not destroy the watermelon TV). I think we'll try to do the following:

Test this in Kuraiko's Sandbox
File a Jira and attach the updated code as a fix
Ask Torley and/or Rob to have a look at it.

Let's cross fingers :-)

Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:47, 11 August 2008 (PDT)

SignpostMarv Martin has worked on this problem (read User_talk:Torley_Linden#RE: twitter).

Gally Young 23:45, 11 August 2008 (PDT)

See WEB-761

SignpostMarv Martin 03:46, 12 August 2008 (PDT)

@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 :It seems a good idea! ^^
 :[[Teen_Second_Life|This FAQ]] is already available in the misc section but maybe a dedicated section in "1st step" or "advanced help" would be better if you have more links ^^. Don't forget to add the [[Template:Help|Help template]] in your pages. [[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 05:09, 31 August 2008 (PDT)
-== BlipTV vs. videoflash ==
-I think we are going to have problems with vidtut. Vidtut are now hosted by http://blip.tv and '''<nowiki> <videoflash type="blip">http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/1105701/</videoflash> and <videoflash type="flv">http://blip.tv/file/get/Lindenlab-VoiceChatCustomizeSpeechGestures274.flv</videoflash> </nowiki>''' are not running in this wiki, but maybe I'm doing something wrong... Who could help us on this point ? [[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 10:33, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
-::Hm... i looked in the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash documentation] and blip.tv doesn't seem to be supported by default. It might be possible to just add the line
-::<php>$url['blip'] = 'http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/' . $id;</php>
-:to the extension code. But it's just a guess out of consistency to the others, since I got no idea about PHP. It should then work with
-::<nowiki><videoflash type="blip">1105701</videoflash></nowiki>
-:(might need to add info about width and height to not destroy the watermelon TV). I think we'll try to do the following:
-:#Test this in [http://wiki.zeitenwerk.de Kuraiko's Sandbox]
-:#File a Jira and attach the updated code as a fix
-:#Ask [[User:Torley Linden|Torley]] and/or [[User:Rob Linden|Rob]] to have a look at it.
-:Let's cross fingers :-)
-:[[Image:Zai_signature.png|45px]] '''[[User:Zai Lynch|Lynch]]''' <sup><small>([[User talk:Zai Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai Lynch|contribs]])</small></sup> 11:47, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
-:: [[User:SignpostMarv Martin|SignpostMarv Martin]] has worked on this problem (read [[User_talk:Torley_Linden#RE: twitter]]).
-::[[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 23:45, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
-:::See {{JIRA|WEB-761}}
-:::[[User:SignpostMarv Martin|SignpostMarv Martin]] 03:46, 12 August 2008 (PDT)
@@ Line 113: / Line 95: @@
 **[[:Category:Help/Lag]]
 [[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 14:56, 3 September 2008 (PDT)
+:Heyas Gally! =)
+:Hmm... I can see that the categories grew and that further sorting might be(come) useful. But I'm not yet sure about how to manage this many. Should we provide them all in the [[Template:Help]]? The full spec would become rly long-ish and hard(er) to use. While having a sub-template for each of the main categories might not be an improvement either... What would be your suggestion? Having it as part of the help template, as extra-template or categorize by hand? Or maybe we can strip some down... I mean: How many articles about the "Space Navigator" do we expect? I'm not sure if it deserves an own category then. Same with "Groups" for example. I think another way to reduce the category cluttering could be, to start with merging related articles. This is useful as long as an article is still small. I'd rather want to have one long and detailed article describing a viriaty of aspects related to one subject than having 10 micro articles. So searching and merging related articles should be one of hour goals too. I just added the page [[Help:Open Wiki Tasks]] to adress this problem. (Btw: great sorting with the "Bug Fixes" SubCats "Linux", "Mac" and "Lag", impliying that "Windows" = "Lag". I had a great laugh reading that and think you are right (^_^); )
+:Greetz, [[Image:Zai_signature.png|45px]] '''[[User:Zai Lynch|Lynch]]''' <sup><small>([[User talk:Zai Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai Lynch|contribs]])</small></sup> 23:42, 5 September 2008 (PDT)
+== BlipTV vs. videoflash ==
+I think we are going to have problems with vidtut. Vidtut are now hosted by http://blip.tv and '''<nowiki> <videoflash type="blip">http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/1105701/</videoflash> and <videoflash type="flv">http://blip.tv/file/get/Lindenlab-VoiceChatCustomizeSpeechGestures274.flv</videoflash> </nowiki>''' are not running in this wiki, but maybe I'm doing something wrong... Who could help us on this point ? [[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 10:33, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
+::Hm... i looked in the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash documentation] and blip.tv doesn't seem to be supported by default. It might be possible to just add the line
+::<php>$url['blip'] = 'http://lindenlab.blip.tv/file/' . $id;</php>
+:to the extension code. But it's just a guess out of consistency to the others, since I got no idea about PHP. It should then work with
+::<nowiki><videoflash type="blip">1105701</videoflash></nowiki>
+:(might need to add info about width and height to not destroy the watermelon TV). I think we'll try to do the following:
+:#Test this in [http://wiki.zeitenwerk.de Kuraiko's Sandbox]
+:#File a Jira and attach the updated code as a fix
+:#Ask [[User:Torley Linden|Torley]] and/or [[User:Rob Linden|Rob]] to have a look at it.
+:Let's cross fingers :-)
+:[[Image:Zai_signature.png|45px]] '''[[User:Zai Lynch|Lynch]]''' <sup><small>([[User talk:Zai Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai Lynch|contribs]])</small></sup> 11:47, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
+:: [[User:SignpostMarv Martin|SignpostMarv Martin]] has worked on this problem (read [[User_talk:Torley_Linden#RE: twitter]]).
+::[[User:Gally Young|Gally Young]] 23:45, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
+:::See {{JIRA|WEB-761}}
+:::[[User:SignpostMarv Martin|SignpostMarv Martin]] 03:46, 12 August 2008 (PDT)