Check out the New Second Life Knowledge Base

Second Life Knowledge Base Wiki

Over the past week or so Linden Lab (Documentation Team) have been working around the clock transferring articles from the old KB to the new Second Life knowledge base wiki. Earlier in the year the Documenation Team set up the KB2Wiki project which involved testing the Wiki and reviewing pages. Success!

Our mission: Test the Wiki as the new home of the KB so you get more accurate information, easier.

Summary: We’re testing using this Second Life Wiki as the new home of the Second Life Knowledge Base (KB for short) by moving a small selection of Beginners’ articles into the Wiki. Our ultimate goal is to unify the KB with the Wiki, two of the main places you might go for Second Life help. Together, we can improve the accuracy, completeness, and range of information available to all Residents — and make all of this information easier to find and use!

The Documentation Team have apparently important all KB articles and are now working on cleanup/organization phrase of the process. I love the new Second Life Knowlege Base wiki, easier to search for things and looks great visually etc.

This Wiki is our new home, so pardon us while the dust settles.

Welcome to the Knowlege Base, the official source for Second Life help & related information.

The Knowledge Base contains articles that are quality-reviewed by Linden Lab and Resident Reviewers. The Wiki has long-thrived as Resident-powered help, and it stands to benefit from documentation which wields the dual advantages of being: (1) officially approved by Linden Lab while at the same time (2) is updated quicker by having more eyes on editable content.

When you first visit the new Second Life Knowlege Base it will show the following things;

• Introduction part - top of the page
• How do I find stuff? - middle
• Questions & Answers - bottom half -
• To Do – at the bottom

• Knowlege Base FAQ
• Check Q&A at the bottom of the page for details of the new changes

Documentation Team Links

• About Doc Team
• Doc Team Office Hours
• TNT – Second Life Tips & Tricks – SL Blogs
• Doc Team Flickr group
  

Questions:

• What do you think of the new Second Life Knowlege Base wiki ?
• What would you like to see in the near future ?

Second Life Answers Status Levels

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Second Life Answers Key Levels

Levels |  Replies/Points

Newbie = 0 -100
Novice = 101 – 500
Apprentice =  501 – 1500
Expert = 1501 – 3000
Master = 3001-1000

^^ Subject to change ^^

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When answering questions for residents on Second Life Answers, you might of noticed that there is a points bar located under your picture. I currently have 29 points which is at the low end newbie level. I have recently found out the rest of the status level include Novice, Apprentice, Expert and Master levels.

By default, for example, Clearspace includes the following status levels: master (501-1000 points); junior (101-500 points); newbie (0-100 points).

This is very similar to Yahoo Answers points and levels system, which ranges from 1-249 to 26, 000+ points. There are other ways to get help and feedback in Second Life including using the SL Forums, SL Blogs, SL social networking sites and getting help by someone in-world. You can also receive points on the Commerce Forums for answering questions which is very neat.

A few things to remember

• Participation and contributions really do count on Second Life Answers. Being Helpful is key!
• Second Life Answers is not a competition or getting points and awards as such.
• There’s no competition in helping people and providing answers.
• If you want to challenge yourself, feel free to do that!
• How to Participate in Second Life Answers
• Second Life Blog and Forum FAQ

Second Life Answers

The best way to keep Second Life Answers as a good resource is for those who ask questions to remember to mark responses as helpful or correct.  After trying out the responses, you will know which ones to pick and this will make it more helpful for the next Resident looking at the same type question!

Yahoo Answers

To encourage participation and reward great answers

Levels are another way to keep track of how active you (and others) have been. The more points you accumulate, the higher your level. Yahoo! Answers recognizes your level achievements with our special brand of thank you’s!

And finally, as you attain higher levels, you’ll also be able to contribute more to Yahoo! Answers – you can ask, answer, vote and rate more frequently.

Some will think the status levels is a good thing to have, while others might be upset and agrey with having a points/levels system At the end of the day volunteering makes all the difference in Second Life and making sure everyone has that all important information to enjoy their Second Life to the full.

What do you think about Second Life Answers status levels ?

Good thing or bad thing ? Why?

Sending Postcards in Second Life

@ SL Tutorial 36

Sending Postcards in Second Life is great fun and you have the chance of sharing your adventures with your friends in Second Life or even in Real Life. Sending postcards just takes a few moments and then you will be done. Before you start sending postcards, make sure you join Second Life sharing sites, which supports SL postcards. Flickr, Snapzilla, Koinup, Mixoom and blogHUD are popular SL photo sharing sites you might to check out.

This is how you do it…

• Click Snapshot button at the bottom of your SL window (viewer)
• Select Send Va email
• Email Snapshot window appears
• Type in the Recipient’s Email, Your Email, Your Name, Subject and Message
• When you are happy with your snapshot, click on Send
• You will see a Sending… blue message for a few seconds
• You have successfully sent your SL postcard
• Yay!

Snapshot

• Send Via email = free
• Save to Inventory = 10L$ for uploads
• Save to your hard drive = free
• View pictures in your Inventory = Photo Album and Textures folder
• Don’t forget you can send pictures with the user interface on too
  
• Check out Snapshot resources wiki page
  
• Happy Sharing :)
  

As the old adage goes, “practice makes perfect”, and what’s important is you’re enjoying yourself as you “capture the moments”

- Torley Linden

SL Residents on Plurk

There is now a SL wiki page for residents that use Plurk to add their account names to the page. LINK

To add yourself to this list, edit your user page and append {{Plurker}} to the bottom – be sure to add a link to your plurk page while you’re there!

Please make sure you create or log into your into SL wiki account then EDIT your wiki userpage > PASTE {{Plurker}} at the bottom of your userpage > SAVE changes. I believe there is now a twitter wiki page too. Go ahead and add your urls to share!

Second Life Wiki Statistics

Check out the Second Life Wiki Statistics which includes Page statistics, Edit statistics, User statistics, View statistics and Most viewed pages. Just recently the wiki passed the 7,000 articles created mark which is great. Second Life wiki is great because it can be edited by any resident and Linden. Enjoy!

Check out my SL wiki page.

Removing Ruth Cloud in Second Life

SL Tutorial: @35

Method 1

• Right click on yourself
• Choose Appearance
• Exit Appearance – Adjusting sometimes will remove the ruth cloud

Method 2

• Changing things that you are currently wearing should help remove the ruth cloud

Method 3 -  (options)

• Relog will reset and will hopefully remove the ruth cloud
• Clear cache in Preferences
• Try to log into non-laggy places
• Loss of connection
• Rebake textures in advanced menu
• Disable Render Avatar Imposters in Edit > Preferences > Graphics tab should remove the cloud

More on Ruth

• Make yourself a cloud >> Open up the Advanced menu > Character > Force Params to Default
• get Ruth 2.0 inworld at the Stillman Free Bazaar!
• Previously before Ruth was just a default women avatar
• Futher information about Ruth can be found here

Linden Bear locations in Second Life

Top 5 Locations to find Linden Bears in Second Life. Don’t forget you can always IM Lindens for their Linden Bears or why not visit LL Office Hours and ask for them for it there. Residents have also been creating Bears over the years. I have created my own Bear and you can IM me if you would like a copy of it. Before I transferred to the MG (December 2008) there were a couple of Linden Bears around Meiji West region in TSL. Again there was no Linden Bear museums on the Teen Grid and there were about 5-10 Lindens that actually did any Office Hours during 2007-2008.  With that said, Let’s exchange bears! :D

Linden Bear Museum
free to visit
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bowness/216/53/27

Linden Bears On Parade
130+  Linden Bears on display and growing so drop by and see how creative and imaginative our Lindens are.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Parameshvara/228/45/45

Linden Bear Island
Check out the amazing Linden Bears around the isle
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Honie%20Isle/20/54/23

Resident Bears
Check this out
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ambleside/213/92/39

SL Volunteer Island - Access only to SL Mentors!
Tons of Linden Bears located on stand
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SL%20Volunteer%20Island/26/77/29

Many Lindens of the past and present have their own personal and unique teddy bear to share with Residents who ask them for it. Most of these Linden Bears are modifications of the Linden Bear made by Nicole Linden, which can be seen on the right. This article lists an incomplete list of these Linden Bears.

Linden Bear links

• Check out the Linden Bears Wiki page
• History of Linden Bears
• Who are Lindens? – Second Life Video Tutorial
• My Linden Bears Flickr Set

Happy Linden Bear Hunting and adventures! :D

Burning Life 2009 delayed until 17th October

SL News Alert

Burning Life 2009 in Second Life was going to be opened on the 3rd of October 2009 but now has been put back until 17th October 2009 and will end on 25th October 2009.

Dusty Linden :-) , has been going around telling people that Burning Life was going to open on October 3. IT’S NOT! It’s really opening October 17 2009, and running through the 25th. We hope that doesn’t mess up anyone’s plans, but it will allow us to spend more time talking with the community before we start giving away land

• Burning Life Website
• Burn it Up, Burn it Down: Burning Life 2009

Third-party SL Viewers

There are alternate viewers to use for Second Life, mostly third-party viewers which have been created by resident developers not working for Linden Lab. Third-party viewers are no way associated with Linden Lab. All viewers are free to download and install.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers

The link above lists the most popular viewers to use for Second Life, including details of the different viewers, top features it offers, futher links for more information and displays the latest versions. This wiki page is subject to change, so check by reqular for updates on the viewers.

Snowglobe 1.1 released

Snowglobe 1.1 has been released and is now ready for download from Second Life Downloads page.  New features include menu items to hide object selection outlines, setting to adjust max number of objects on the minimap and hotkeys to select link sets.

• Snowglobe 1.1 release notes
• Download Snowglobe 1.1