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Overview
This article provides help on using the Second Life Wiki. If you're looking for Second Life Help, see the official Old Knowledge Base or Resident-powered Help Portal.
Important: The majority of this Wiki's content (like SL itself) is Resident-created and while it may be helpful, unless stated otherwise by an employee of Linden Lab, we can't vouch for its accuracy. For our official documentation on how to use Second Life, please see the Old Knowledge Base. |
See the Quickie Wiki Intro for information on how to log into the Wiki and how to create your user page. It also provides a manual on how to create new articles in general, how to upload and link pictures, how to track changes and much more!
Guidelines
There are a few simple editing guidelines on this wiki:
- When contributing to official help or simply seeking sensible guidelines, see the Style Guide.
- Where possible, edit existing pages rather than creating new pages.
- Contribute to articles in the following categories:
Basic Wiki syntax
Description | You type | You get |
Applies anywhere | ||
Italic Writing |
''italic'' |
italic |
Bold text |
'''bold''' |
bold |
Bold and italic |
'''''bold & italic''''' |
bold & italic |
Internal link (within SLwiki) |
[[name of page]] |
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Redirect to another page |
#redirect [[Target page]] |
1. redirect Target page |
External link (to other websites) |
[http://www.example.com] |
|
Sign your posts |
~~~~ |
Username 14:38, |
Don't interpret text |
<!--an embedded comment--> |
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Applies only at the beginning of the line | ||
Headings of different sizes |
==level 1== |
Headings of different levels. |
Horizontal rule |
---- |
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Bulleted list |
* list item a |
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Numbered list |
# first list item |
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Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists |
* list item X |
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Definition |
;Technical Term |
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Indentation |
: ''italicized text (indented)'' |
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Preformatted text (boxed text) |
add a space at the beginning of the line to create preformatted text in a box |
add a space at the beginning of the line |
Image Link |
[[Image:New-Snowstorm-icon.png|link=Project Snowstorm]] |
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Thumbnail image |
[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]] |
LSL Script Highlighting & Indentation
Use <syntaxhighlight lang="lsl2"> before the script and </syntaxhighlight> after the script
default
{
state_entry()
{
// PUBLIC_CHANNEL has the integer value 0
llSay(PUBLIC_CHANNEL, "Hello, Avatar!");
}
touch_start(integer num_detected)
{
key id = llDetectedKey(0);
string name = llKey2Name(id);
integer spaceIndex = llSubStringIndex(name, " ");
string firstName = llGetSubString(name, 0, spaceIndex - 1);
llSay(PUBLIC_CHANNEL, firstName + " touched me.");
}
}
Also see Code highlighting.
Templates
There are a number of SL-specific templates created for use on this wiki.
Template | Usage |
{{SL-Profile|User Name}} | Links the User Name to the Second Life Profile web page for that user |
{{SL-hCard}} | Creates a user profile in hCard format |
{{SLurl}} | Creates a link to an SL location |
{{User_ICQ}} | Creates a Link to the ICQ-Userprofile |
{{Skills}} | Adds your userprofile to categories indicating a certain skill |
{{Visl}} | For Second Life Volunteers |
- See Full List Of Existing Templates
- See Help:Editors Toolbox for a selection of helpful templates for editors.
Extensions
See Help:Extensions for information on using wiki extensions.