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LSL Dev

LSL.dev is a Work In Progress

Hi, I’m Nexii Malthus, a resident of Second Life.

The plan for this website is to not simply be a mirror of the LSL Wiki but a new home for LSL.

The LSL Portal of the SL Wiki has its fair share of problems…
  • Editing rights are locked down which goes against the operating principles of a wiki (soft-security)
  • Downtime and no system admin highlights an unreliable platform that requires maintenance/upkeep
  • The documentation is in dire need of a large scale rewrite
  • There are conflicts with the redirects to the Knowledge Base for what are also LSL or technical terms causing frustration of being kidnapped to an external website
  • There is no way for SLua to exist alongside LSL on the wiki; We need to build a future for SLua scripters
  • Mediawiki page UI is not contextually relevant
  • Search results can be really bad and slow

Still, I really do love the LSL Wiki and what we all managed to do through countless contributions. It is where I started my path learning programming 20 years ago. At that time the wiki was an unofficial website using a wacky little PHP framework called WakkaWiki on the domain lslwiki.net

So I want to resolve the issues we have with it today, take it back to its roots as a community website and modernise it.

  • Everyone should be able to contribute
    • Running more like an Open Source project
    • I want clear guides on how you can contribute
    • Elevating regulars / editors / maintainers into position where they can approve PRs and edit directly
  • LSL documentation needs a new Champion
    • In the past we had Strife Onizuka who became a pillar of the SL community with his work on the wiki
    • LSL.dev is my passion project, so I’ll be taking on that role of a champion
  • Best practices of modern documentation sites
  • Refine the information architecture of the LSL wiki
  • Become a beacon for modernising SL documentation

Roadmap

Section titled “Roadmap”
  1. Development plan:
    • Setup github project and sister project (slua.dev)
    • Read up docs / change settings / figure out approach
    • Establish core content templates (LSL Functions, Events, Constants, …?)
    • Generate pages for all LSL functions, events & constants
    • Template component for documenting function/event arguments
    • Migrate from LSL Wiki (CC-BY-SA)
    • Landing Pages
    • Feature Pagess
      • The “LSL Feature” pages like Attachments, Communications, Combat2, Experience, Linkset Data, etc!
    • Constant Collections (Pages & reusable Component for use in docs pages)
    • Footers, legals, project legals, licensing?
      • I might need some help on this
  2. LSL Dev Docs are in a usable state
    • This is the point at which I can proudly share LSL.dev with the community
    • Putting a link to LSL.dev from the LSL Portal
  3. Further development
    • Have some funding/sponsorships, so I can dedicate more time to the project. Especially expand outside of LSL for modernised content creation portal and/or modernised general SL knowledge
    • Potentially use funding towards hiring/commissioning technical writers from existing LSL Scripters
    • How to contribute
      • Making an edit to an existing page
      • Creating a new page
      • etc.
    • Start work on sister project at slua.dev
    • Moving repo into a github organisation dedicated to documentation of Second Life

Discussions have been enabled on the github repo and are available at: https://github.com/Martin-Pitt/lsl.dev/discussions