Disclaimer
These are just personal thoughts on how to improve the efficiency of the SL Volunteers.
It is in no way official nor approved by VTeam or representive for the thoughts of them or other volunteers.
So basically it's just my absent-minded junk but have a look and feel free to contribute your suggestions as well =)
In case you're not already wiki-experienced: Don't worry about the formatting. It's your thoughts that matter to me. I can still fix the design later. So add your thoughts to the page. In case you would like to discuss one of the thoughts mentioned here, please use the discussion page. It has a manual on how to write a comment.
Communication
- Use a public suggestion box (for example a wiki page like this)
- This would give all volunteers the chance to
- Post transcripts of Office Hours on the wiki
- There is a public website application that automatically converts SL chatlog into wiki code.
- In the Mentors group we unite probably the most friendly and helpful bunch of SL Residents who LOVE to share their knowledge or contribute with their skills. Otherwise, they wouldn't be volunteers. So in case there is a problem, please ask your fellow Mentors for help on that topic. Discuss it with them, plan it with them and build it up together.
SL VI Island Organisation
- eeeep... yeah i know =/ It can be an emotional topic if something vanishes in what you invested a lot of time. But it doesn't really vanish. You still carry it along with you in your inventory and maybe, you can take it out again at the revised islands. But please, take some minutes to visit the SL Volunteer Islands, walk along and look at the stuff. Fly up in the air and look at skyboxes. I really don't want to hurt anyones feelings, but honestly: It became really messy there. So what could we ask for?
- A complete restructure of the existing Volunteer Islands (maybe except SLVEC).
- Open parts to public
- Provide a prestructured inviroment that is obtained by mentor commitees. (see notes on commitees as well.)
Coaches
- Volunteer related classes at SLVEC
- Coaches helping coaches
Commitees
- Be transparent
- Create a wiki page that states your goals
- In case you're not experienced with wikis: Don't worry. Just write all the info in your page (no matter how messy it looks) and then contact a Mentor Scribe. S/he can do the formatting for you =)
- List members that can be contacted inworld to ask questions about the commitee
- Volunteer-sponsored_Events
- Post transcripts of your meetings on a subpage of your commitee page or summerize what was discussed and what the conclusion was
- That way, everyone who would like to join you, knows, what you are currently working on.
Linguists
- The Style Guide for translations to German mentions to translate "You" with the German word "Sie". However, this is not what the majority (all?) of the German Linguists feel like would be an appropriate translation. It is true that in formal language, Sie would be right. But in net culture (and no one can deny that SL and this connected wiki are net culture related), it is most likely considered as a reserved (or oven worse: an arrogant and unfriendly) behaviour to address a person with "Sie" instead of "Du".
Buddys and Apprentice Buddys
- Please create a userpage at the wiki
- The new Buddy Panels at SLVEC (not set up at the time of writing) display a link to your wiki page in case you created one. So it would be great for those who are seeking for help, if you could state your special fields there. Like "I rule da help islandz, ya!" or "Ahern is my second home" or "I'm a landlord and am experienced with land related concerns" (ok, that one was kinda lame... but useful) etc. etc. The person seeking for help will be very thankful about these informations.
- If you're an Apprentice Buddy, it would be AWESOME if you stored your voucher criteria for shadowing on your profile. You wouldn't have to repeat them over and over and apprentices could search around untill they found a session that fits their needs and skills.
- Have a look at the Quickie Wiki Intro for infos on how to create a page and/or contact a Mentor Scribe for help. Please make sure to provide the content you'd like to see listet on your page. The Scribe will have a look at the formatting then =)
Wiki related suggestions
- Please don't ignore the Summery bar
- It is highly recommended to write a short statement on what you changed with your edit. That way, people who browse the recent changes or those who marked a specific page to appear on their watchlist doesn't have to compare different versions of the site to find out what you did there. It really makes a difference.
- Please please use the checkbox This is a minor edit in case your edit was a spelling correction or something similar that didn't change the structure of an article or added vital information.
- Please use the Show preview button before you save your page, since the wiki saves the whole backlog for review.
- If you label articles with *Needs update* or *Out-Of-Date* or similar labels, please leave a comment on the discussion page of the article so others know why you labeled it the way you did, so they might be able to add the missing information or improve it in another way. If you are already on an improvement on your own, please add that as well, so we don't have to do the same work twice =) Every article has a discussion page that is linked on top of the page next to the edit button.
- Please sign your comments on discussion pages with four tildes: ~~~~ or use the signature button
 . These will automatically be converted into your username and a timestamp. It's just easier to keep track if you know who wrote what.
- Torley made a neat video tutorial about the wiki. If you got some time left and are interested in the wiki, then please consider watching it here.
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