Quickie Wiki Intro
Welcome!
We encourage new and existing Mentors and Apprentices arriving to create a Wiki Profile Page for yourself on the Second Life Wiki so people can always find you. This is particularly useful for those with language abilities or other skills.
You can detail information about yourself above and beyond what you normally would send out via SL Volunteer mailing list. Additionally, you can incorporate simple templates into your page which will automatically "register" your group role or abilities.
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Log In To Create Your Profile Page
- If you haven't already you must first Log In to the Second Life Wiki.
- Click the LOG IN/CREATE ACCOUNT link at the top right of this page. Use your IN-WORLD name and your IN-WORLD password.
- Once logged in, your name will appear at the top of the page. Click your name. It is a hyperlink which will take you to a page such as: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Your_Name and you will placed into EDIT mode (if the page doesn't exist).
- Create Your Content
- If you are familiar with Wiki's, begin creating your Profile Page. Even if you're not familiar with Wiki's, put something in there that you can think of and is pertinent to your role as a mentor. You can work on the formatting later.
- In the very least, include the section on "Templates" below to register your skills and language abilities.
- Review the next section for a sample wiki content. You can then customize from that point on.
- Seek Help
- You can visit the Wiki help pages SL Wiki Help or Wikipedia Help for details on what the wiki markups are.
- You can also view the wiki markups of other people's pages, to see what they did to make their pages look the way they do. Edit the other mentor's page to view the markups, 'but do not save your changes to their pages!!!'.
- If you are not able to figure out the wiki markup, contact the any number of ( SL Mentor Scribes ) and ask them if they'll help you with your page. Please note that there will need to be "sweat equity" on your part. You will provide the content and the Mentor Scribes will help create your page in a nice, Wiki format.
What To Put Into Your Page
You'll need to think about what you're going to tell the other mentors and commit it in writing so it can be wiki-fied. Here is a sample markup
- I'm YOUR NAME from Germany. I am dedicated to the Second Life Volunteer program.
- My goal is to help make the Second Life Volunteers second to none.
- I speak English and German and can script in LSL.
- {{ISO_639-3/cat-speaking/Volunteers|eng}}
- {{ISO_639-3/cat-speaking/Volunteers|deu}}
- {{visl
- |Mentors=*
- |}}
- {{skills
- |Builder=
- |Scripter=*
- |}}
This markup will give you a short and sweet introduction about yourself and state in words what your language abilities are and that you can script.
The strange markups allow you to be automatically registered in the various pages. The markups themselves are not visible, but they produce a nice navigation at the bottom of the page, with your name registered. The example shows that you are a
| * Second Life Mentor | * English speaking Resident | ||
| * English speaking Volunteer | * German speaking Resident | ||
| * German speaking Volunteer | * Scripter |
The above markup would produce a page that looks something like the following.
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User: Your Name
Categories | Second Life Mentors | English speaking Volunteers | English speaking Residents | German speaking Volunteers | German speaking Residents | Scripter |
Templates
When you include these special templates and categories at the bottom of your wiki content on your page, it will automatically register your User Profile Page as belonging to certain groups. For example:
- {{ISO 639-3/cat-speaking/Volunteers|eng}}
will register your User Profile Page as belonging on the English speaking Volunteers and English speaking Residents pages. It will also create the navigation bar at the bottom of your page that link to those pages.
- Language Templates
A list of common language codes can be found here. There are two common ways to form this template:
Template Description {{ISO 639-3/cat-speaking|XXX}} This will establish your page as belonging to XXX-Speaking Residents group. Substitute XXX with the appropriate language code found on this page. {{ISO 639-3/cat-speaking/Volunteers|XXX}} This will establish your page as belonging to XXX-Speaking Residents AND XXX-Speaking Volunteers groups. Substitute XXX with the appropriate language code found on this page.
If your language doesn't appear on the list of common languages, follow this link to to the Code Generator by User:SignpostMarv Martin.
- Bulk Group Templates (visl)
This template is simple to use and is described in the following table. Simply copy the entire blue section into your profile page, and add an asterisk to the elements that pertain to you.
Code Description {{visl Opening tag - required |Greeters= Adds your User Profile Page to the Second Life Greeters group. |Mentors= Adds your User Profile Page to the Second Life Mentors group |Helpers= Adds your User Profile Page to the Live Helpers group |Instructors= Adds your User Profile Page to the Second Life Instructors group |Scribe= Adds your User Profile Page to the SL Mentor Scribes group |Linguist= Adds your User Profile Page to the SL Mentor Linguists group |Buddy= Adds your User Profile Page to the SL Mentor Buddy group |}} Closing tag - required
For example, the following template will add you to the Second Life Mentors and SL Mentor Linguist groups. This is done by adding the asterirsk "*" symbol after each of the lines that apply to you. The lines without asterisks will by ignored by the system. You can choose to keep or omit the non-asterisked lines.
- {{visl
- |Greeters=
- |Mentors=*
- |Helpers=
- |Instructors=
- |Scribe=
- |Linguist=*
- |Buddy=
- |}}
- Skills Template
There are only two skills, but it must be specified in its own list
Code Description {{skills Opening tag - required |Builder= Adds your User Profile Page to the Builders group. |Scripter= Adds your User Profile Page to the Scripters group |}} Closing tag - required
The following template markup will establish you as a Scripter.
- {{skills
- |Builder=
- |Scripter=*
- |}}
- Specialty and Single Line Templates
Some groups do not follow the above templates, but are valid groups nonetheless. They can be specified individually (without the asterisks) as follows:
Template Description [[Category:SL Mentor Coach|{{PAGENAME}}]] Directly adds your User Profile Page to the SL Mentor Coach group. [[Category:I18n project members|{{PAGENAME}}]] Directly adds your User Profile Page to the i18n Project Members group. [[Category:Jira_Reporters|{{PAGENAME}}]] Directly adds your User Profile Page to the Jira Reporters group. This is a group of people who have reported bugs on the Second Life Jira bug tracking site.
- Linden Templates
These templates are reserved for Linden Labs employees. As a resident, do not add these to your profile. They are merely listed for completeness.
Code Description {{llEmployee Opening tag - required. Establishes the Linden Lab Employee roles. |executive= |vol-manager= |com-manager= |liaison= |concierge= |CommMonkey= |GridMonkey= |QA= |dev= |main= |teen= |ex= |}} Closing tag - required