ONE (1) SL wiki

Does sue agree with everything at all times.

If you say so.

While sadly it won't be done as fast as "now", I do agree it's confusing. I get rather befuddled looking things up, and without effective search, makes it more puzzling. At least we have a Google site search now.

I get confused as well, although I admit it doesn't take much to confuse a cat. Oh for something simple I can refer to in a hurry with a hundred people asking questions all at once. Something like a Kitty Wiki. 1) How to Sleep 2) How to Eat 3) How to Pounce 4) String and Other Human Games, and so on.

And just 1 wiki can provide 3x the group of people editing 3 wikis since it would cater to ALL 3 types of people: general, technical, and historical (with overlaps). A single wiki would more likely attract MORE people than even 3 separate wikis would!

I get confused as well, although I admit it doesn't take much to confuse a cat. Oh for something simple I can refer to in a hurry with a hundred people asking questions all at once. Something like a Kitty Wiki. 1) How to Sleep 2) How to Eat 3) How to Pounce 4) String and Other Human Games, and so on.

I'm sorry, Eep, but this math fails most horribly if you consider for an instant that the people who are active in content with one wiki may be active in another.

And, on a personal note, while I would like to see the LSL Wiki go MediaWiki, I'd rather not have my best scripting resource cluttered with stuff not relevant to scripting.

can we call the merger Tinki Wiki?

What you want, Eep, is a indexed, content-controlled website. The best solution for you is to build one that references pages on various wikis so that each link falls into a neat category and points to unique material from a single resource.

That'll be a lot more efficient and satisfying for you than trying to cross reference and unduplicate a collection of wikis that are being properly used by hosts of people.

There are 3 SL wikis now, all with different wiki software:

1. SL Wiki (formerly SL Support Wiki until I renamed it since it has more than just support topics) - TikiWiki
   
2. LSL (Scripting) Wiki - WakkaWiki
   
3. SL History Wiki - MediaWiki
   

They need to all become a single wiki because they have duplicate pages about the same thing (avatar, object, script, etc) and it's annoying having to link them all as I have been doing recently.

Since all of these wikis use different wiki software, the syntax is slightly different for each one. For example, creating a link in TikiWiki requires (()) around the local link ([] for external links) and a | in between the URL and link text. WakkaWiki's links are just [[]] and a space between URL and link text for internal/external links. MediaWiki is like a cross between TikiWiki and WakkaWiki, with [[]] for internal links and [] for external links--but no | between URL and link text. Needless to type, trying to add content to all of these wikis is confusing and irritating--and this is just for links! WakkaWiki's bold (**), italics (//), and header size (more "=" for larger font) syntax is more intuitive too. WakkaWiki's table syntax is similar to TikiWiki's but actually works with newlines--UNLIKE TikiWiki.

The SL Wiki's TikiWiki software is pretty bad compared to the others. Its comments don't work, there wasn't even a "recent changes" link until I added one on the main page but it doesn't work well. User names can't be clicked (though a user's name page can be created but it won't be linkable from the recent changes, etc). Even searching for a space gives an error.

The LSL Wiki's WakkaWiki software is no longer supported and, while I am most comfortable with it, it is lacking with respect to MediaWiki which is what I think the single SL Wiki should use.

The SL History Wiki's MediaWiki software is decent (though it needs the same link syntax for both internal AND external links) but it's run by "benevolent dictators" (and I mean that in the nicest way since they are pretty open to suggestions and stuff) and the SL Wiki needs to be more like the LSL Wiki in terms of user-managed ( but still needs LL to maintain/upgrade the software, improve on it, etc).

If there's a converter from TikiWiki and WakkaWiki to MediaWiki, great, but LL needs to upgrade the current SL Wiki (formerly SL Support Wiki) to MediaWiki and start promoting it as THE SL wiki. There has already been discussion on the SL History Wiki about broadening its scope but I think a wiki merge would be a better, more sane, solution (as I've already proposed in that discussion).

Torley Linden mentioned:
But how long is it going to take? We need a wiki merger NOW.

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Guess I just gotta do it myself on my OWN SL wiki if I want things done right since obviously no one else has a damn clue about it!

I am proposing something that will improve ALL the wikis, Sue. There is far too much redundancy in them currently and it's riduculous (not to mention a pain-in-the-ass to change/add to EACH wiki).

The point of having three wikis is that each can focus its efforts on pages specificlly fitting their contexts. Redundancy occurs on the specific wikis (LSL and History) because the tiki, SL's general wiki, is, as you say, crap, and the information has to go somewhere.

The information's redundancy holds significance as well. If someone thought it fit to add identical information to both the LSL and History wiki, it was (hopefully) done because the information is relevant and useful in both their contexts. Point: don't flame redundancy before you know what it means.