New Second Life Knowlege Base migration completed

Linden Lab announced yesterday on the Official Second Life Blog, that the KB has been moved to the new Second Life Wiki home (Knowlege Base) and that the migration phrase has now been completed. CLICK HERE to visit the new KB wiki. Thanks to the Doc Team for their hard work they have put into this over recent months. :D

It’s official: Our Knowledge Base (KB) has been moved to the Second Life Wiki! Now that our massive migration is complete, we can offer several tremendous, hands-on benefits to improve your knowledge-seeking and knowledge-sharing experience, including:

Direct linking–at long last! The link you see is what you copy and paste to share helpful articles with others. It’s that simple.|

Unified help resource! When the KB and the Wiki existed in two different places, some were confused over where to look for help. Viva la unification! Now there’s just one place to find everything you need.

Link hotlist integration! Have a few articles that you refer to over and over again? Take a few minutes to make a Wiki page, link to those on-Wiki pages, and then share it with others with similar needs.

Robust internationalization! The Wiki is already used by numerous volunteers to provide translated versions of KB articles. Multibyte character encoding support, which our previous system didn’t have, means that languages like Japanese and others with extended characters will be retained as intended.

Accelerated article revision time! The team effort makes updates a breeze. Not only does wikifying the KB make it easier for us to release content updates, but you can also review articles for even faster dissemination of information. Heck, if you spot a mistake, you can correct it in minutes or even seconds.

What do you think of the new Second Life Knowlege Base ?

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?

Storing Second Life Incident Reports, September 2009 Stats

Tyche Shepherd reports on storing Second Life Incident Reports and she has published many awesome graphs of her findings on sluniverse.com called what did the naughty people do?. There is alot of interesting data and information in this thread. It’s worth checking out.

There is an Official LL Incident Report page on the SL website which displays the top 25 recent disciplinary actions taken by the in-world Goverance Team. Don’t forget to go to the Help menu and Choose Report Abuse to report incidents etc always!

In total I now have data which seems complete from 7th Jun 2007 up to the current time, at the moment this comes to 21, 665 published incidents.

Firstly I should point out published Incident Reports are only those AR’s which have been resolved and where a warning or suspension has been made. It doesn’t seem to cover bans or suspensions due to account issues or the other strange reasons Lindens use to suspend people.They also cover Teen Grid as well as the Main Grid.

Big fall in published incident reports at the beginning of this year.

There are 91 unique types of violations in total, the most common was Community Standard: Assault, Scripted Objects which covers 3654 incidents

Very little suprises with Public Help Islands, Sandboxes and Info-bubs dominating the list, with No Specific Region being the most common. Help Island Public hosts over 4% of all published incidents.

52% of published incidents result in a Warning, the rest in a suspension of 1 to 14 days.

There were only 2 published copyright infringement violations which resulted in a ban of 14 days (there were 17 in total across the period)

I must stress that these figures are only the Published Incident Reports, people say there are plenty of resolved AR’s which don’t make the Blotter and they certainly don’t include any bans which do occur or suspensions for other reasons (account issues, activity which triggers money laundering detection etc) so it’s difficult to draw concrete conclusions about the whole AR process from them .

Great job, interesting stats. :)

Now over to you, what do you think about the graph data ?

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

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

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.

SL Content Management Roadmap Compilation

• Official Second Life Blog post > Our Content Management Roadmap
• FAQ about Our Content Management Roadmap
• SL Forums > New blog post on LL’s Content Management Roadmap
• New World Notes > Lindens Announce Upcoming “Content Seller Program” — The End of (Most) In-World Content Theft to Follow
• Dusan Writer’s Metaverse > Linden lab Listening: Second Life Content Protection Road Map Released
• SL Massively > A Second Life roadmap: Content-management/Intellectual-property
  
• XStreet SL > LL Content Roadmap-Will some content creators have to stop
• SLuniverse Forums > SL Blog: Our Content Management Roadmap

What do you think about the SL Content Management Roadmap ?

• I hope this compilation is useful!

Zindra last day to submit requests

Last day for ticket submission

Today is the last day to submit your requests for the new Zindra adult continent. By the end of today you won’t have another chance to submit your request etc. LL currently are going through the long list of backlog requests and this will take many weeks to complete. After 60 days after the move of tickets has been accepted the new full enforcement of adult rules will be announced. The adult content changes is one of the main topics residents have been talking about so far this year.

Q. What do you think all of the adult content changes currently and what do you think will happen in the near future?

Timetable of Events

1. Initial Announcement – 12 Mar 2009
2. Release of 1.23 client software – 15 Jun 2009
3. New Adult mainland opens for visits – 15 Jun 2009
4. Move tickets for Adult Mainland accepted – 29 Jun 2009 10am Pacific Time to 24 July 2009 10am Pacific Time
5. Full enforcement of new rules – approx 60 days after Move tickets accepted

Adult Content Info

• Adult Content Wiki
• Details for landowners on migrating to Zindra
• Slapt Wiki
  

SL Feeds needs your feedback

I created my SL Feeds portal on 9th, March 2009, to share 24/7 SL community stuff with everyone, including SL News, SL Fashion, SL stats, SL Videos, TSL news and lot’s more. Since then my SL Feeds portal has been featured on New World Notes: Good Compilation of Second Life Blog Feeds which is just great to see. The popularity of my SL Feeds portal has grown alot and now my SL Feeds portal is featured 2nd in Google Results when you type “SL Feeds” in. The aim is to get no.1 spot sometime later this year which will be nice.

SL Feeds came out of testing on July 20th and now is version 1.0.  I’ll be expanding and adding more in upcoming weeks and months with exciting new SL tools and more SL RSS feeds. Do you have any feature suggestions or want your SL blog & SL website to be featured on SL Feeds portal? Please CONTACT ME, your all most welcome to submit your reviews. Feel free to comment on this post or IM me in-world even.

Thanks!

Spread the word about SL Feeds! I recommend it! :D