A Wiki in Second Life
Ok, that was an attractive title wasn’t it? Well, I wish it would be possible to directly access a wiki though the Second Life user interface and having other residents around see the changes in real time. We are not quite there yet I am afraid. It is this HTML-on-a-Prim thing we have been waiting for quite some time now…
Anyway, I actually have been busy creating a private wiki – for – Second Life, a wiki where the residents of Our Virtual Holland can exchange their idea’s and experiences and ask questions. All to promote our Second Life well being and to further develop Our Virtual Holland.
A week ago the wiki was presented to the current group of residents during our weekly meeting. But how to do such a presentation, not having this HTML-on-a-Prim thing? Well, as a second best solution, I created some big prims with screenshots of the most important wikipages for our wiki newbies. And that worked out nicely.
After a week of testing I must say that progress on the wiki is quite ok! Next to the live (static) demo in Second Life, the adoption process was speeded up by creating a bunch of short help pages. I guess the current residents of Second Life are not representative for the average people you would try to get on to a wiki, being rather computer literate by nature. These people pick up these things relatively easy.
To date we have been using the wiki for:
- co-creating and discussing our meeting agenda
- storing the minutes of meetings
- discussing about Second Life in general and the development of Our Virtual Holland in particular
- posing questions to the OVH community team
- creating Userpages to better get to know each other
- describing our projects on Second life
- uploading and sharing screenshots
- sharing links
All in all, the wiki appears to be a good tool for storing information and community building, that any healthy and growing community requires.
(Disclaimer: I am employed with a subsidiary of ING Group)
Related: all my Second Life articles
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posted May 16, 09:27 PM on May 16, 2007 |
category: OurVirtualHolland
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