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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]]` `[[name of page\|display text]]` `[[#Editing Help\|anchor link text]]`	name of page display text anchor link text

Redirect to another page	`#redirect [[Target page]]`	1. redirect Target page

External link (to other websites)	`[http://www.example.com]` `[http://www.example.com display text]` `http://www.example.com`	[1] display text http://www.example.com

Sign your posts on talk pages	`~~~~`	Username 06:53, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Don't interpret text	`<!--an embedded comment-->` `<nowiki><!--an embedded comment--></nowiki>`	<!--an embedded comment-->
Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings of different sizes	`==level 1==` `===level 2===` `====level 3====` `=====level 4=====`	Headings of different levels.

Horizontal rule	----

Bulleted list	`* list item a` `* list item b` `** list sub-item` `* list item c`	list item a list item b list sub-item list item c

Numbered list	`# first list item` `# second list item` `## sub-item` `# third list item`	first list item second list item sub-item third list item

Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists	`* list item X` `* list item Y` `# first sub-item` `# second sub-item` `* list item Z`	list item X list item Y first sub-item second sub-item list item Z

Definition	`;Technical Term` `: Definition 1` `: Definition 2`	Technical Term Definition 1 Definition 2

Indentation	`: ''italicized text (indented)''` `::* List item A (indented)` `:# First List Item (indented)` `:;Technical Term (indented)`	italicized text (indented) List item A (indented) First List Item (indented) Technical Term (indented)

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 to create preformatted text in a box

Image Link	`[[Image:New-Snowstorm-icon.png\|link=Project Snowstorm]]`

Thumbnail image	`[[Image:Wiki.png\|thumb\|Caption text]]`	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.

Also see

General help from MediaWiki