Difference between revisions of "How to choose a wiki"

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Copyright Issues

For those who are concerned with copyright issues please read the Terms of Use. No copyrighted material should be posted to any Wiki without permission. If any copyrighted material is found to have been posted without proper permission, it should be deleted and the copyright holder notify immediately.

How to choose a wiki

Wiki-based websites are by their nature, generally incomplete in their early existence. The fun part is that most Wikis are either open to the public (the Wikipedia for example), or are free to join.

Second Life-specific Wikis

This one is officially supported by Linden Lab- although it isn't open to the public, all Second Life Residents can edit and contribute.

There is a 3rd-party Wiki focused on Second Life over at Wikia- a lot of articles found there were migrated from the SL History Wiki- a Wiki website that existed before this one.

There is an SL Educators Wiki over on SimTeach.com, a Nonprofit Commons wiki (which Glitteractica Cookie is involved in) and a Business wiki on pbwiki.com.

Second Life Articles on 3rd party Wikis

English Wikipedia (the article is available in other languages on Wikipedia)
Creative Commons (incidentally, this Wiki is available under <spandir="rtl"title="CreativeCommons">
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LSL Wiki Resources

There is another Wiki that is independent of Linden lab at lslwiki.net. It contains excellent information, but the website has suffered reliability issues in the past and constant spammer attacks. In the Developer Resources list, there are three others, all of which are mirrors of lslwiki.net.

Open Sim

OpenSim, the software used in the Open Grid Public Beta, has it's own wiki

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+{{Help/Box|Copyright Issues|For those who are concerned with copyright issues please read the [[Project:Terms of Use|Terms of Use]]. No copyrighted material should be posted to any Wiki without permission. If any copyrighted material is found to have been posted without proper permission, it should be deleted and the '''copyright holder notify immediately'''.}}
 == How to choose a wiki ==
-Unfortunately, there are more than one.  This one, https://wiki.secondlife.com, is officially supported by Linden Lab.  However, it is still incomplete.
+Wiki-based websites are by their nature, generally incomplete in their early existence. The fun part is that most Wikis are either open to the public ([http://en.wikipedia.org/ the Wikipedia] for example), or are free to join.
+== Second Life-specific Wikis ==
+This one is officially supported by Linden Lab- although it isn't open to the public, all Second Life Residents can edit and contribute.
+There is a 3rd-party Wiki focused on Second Life over at [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Wikia]- a lot of articles found there were migrated from the SL History Wiki- a Wiki website that existed before this one.
+There is an SL Educators Wiki over on [http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life:_Guidelines_for_Educators SimTeach.com], a [http://npsl.wikispaces.com/ Nonprofit Commons] wiki (which {{sw.slr/wiki-user|Glitteractica Cookie}} is involved in) and a Business wiki on [http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/ pbwiki.com].
+=== Second Life Articles on 3rd party Wikis ===
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life English Wikipedia] (the article is available in other languages on Wikipedia)
+* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Second_Life Creative Commons] (incidentally, this Wiki is available under {{license/SL Wiki}})
-There is another Wiki that is independent of Linden lab here[http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage].  It contains excellent information, but sometimes suffers reliability issues.  In the [[LSL Portal#Developer Resources|Developer Resources]] list, there are three others, all of which are mirrors of lslwiki.net.
+== LSL Wiki Resources ==
-Some people believe that the non-Linden Wikis should be abandoned, and that new contributions should not be added to the other wikis.  They claim to be uncertain about the copyright status of contributions there. They also believe that
+There is another Wiki that is independent of Linden lab at [http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage lslwiki.net].  It contains excellent information, but the website has suffered reliability issues in the past and constant spammer attacks.  In the [[LSL Portal#Developer Resources|Developer Resources]] list, there are three others, all of which are mirrors of lslwiki.net.
-only the wiki on wiki.secondlife.com is of clear copyright status, and that all contributions should be made there, as the other wikis are deprecated and likely technically illegal to host.  Others disagree.
-Certainly, no copyrighted material should be posted to any Wiki.  If any is found, '''notify the copyright holder''' immediately.
+== Open Sim ==
+OpenSim, the software used in the [[Open Grid Public Beta]], [http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page has it's own wiki]