[sldev] Adding technical documentation to the SL wiki?

[Rob Lanphier]

On 9/3/07 1:32 AM, John Hurliman wrote:
> I want to start documenting Second Life protocol details on the SL
> wiki, but so far I've not been marking new pages with anything to note
> that they are technical docs and sometimes just making paragraphs on
> existing pages. The main benefit of the libsecondlife.org wiki for me
> right now is a better signal to noise ratio of technical docs. If
> there is a way to isolate things like how the network protocol and
> viewer code actually work in to separate namespaces or the
> wiki-equivalent it would solve this issue, so I'm looking for the
> proper protocol on how to do this.

Hmm....I don't want to break this information out into a separate
namespace.  All of the English Wikipedia fits in one namespace, and the
lines between "signal" and "noise" vary from person to person.  Using
namespaces for taxonomy definition essentially hardcodes it.

The right place to place this seems to be here:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Protocol

As far as searching that goes, Google searches may be the best way to
narrow down the search to the technical part of the wiki.  For example,
this search:
site:wiki.secondlife.com "open source portal" texture

...gives results only from pages that are associated with the open
source portal.  Category tagging can help make it more specific.

If there are other things Wikipedia or other MediaWiki-based wikis are
doing, I'd rather go down that road.

A couple places to take this conversation if we want to go offlist:

Discussion about how to document the protocol:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:Protocol

General wiki organization:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Project:Editing_Discussion

Rob


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