Welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Are you currently writing your first TechNet Wiki article? Or do you want to start writing, but have no idea about what to write and how to write? If so I would like to give you a little help on your way to a good one. For me the way to a good...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Today we're going to look at a neat trick where you can filter your tag results by more than one tag whilst in TechNet Wiki. Journey with me to Top 10 Wiki Ninjas: Craig Lussier (SharePoint Architect MCC) and his 2K en-US tags . In that blog post, I mentioned how...

One of the most often used features of the Wiki is the ability to create tables. There are many different ways to do it, some easier than others depending on the experience of the person creating the table. I'll go through a few different options available on the TechNet Wiki. Insert Table Once...

Welcome again to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Being a member of the Technet Wiki community is good, but isn't it better to be a member of a bigger community? Nowadays, connecting different networks is a quite common feature, and have some benefits. For example, Technet Wiki has a feature to share Wiki...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Did you ever have faced the following problem: You are on your profile page, checking your latest activities. Ok, I have answered a question in forum y, I commented on blog post x and...what's that? "The article z on the TechNet Wiki has...

As per the Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule , today it's my turn to put an article together on the Wiki life. But the experience I've had the last week, made me proud of the Wiki community, so allow me to disregard that article category, just for once. As some of you know, as of 2/apr I joined...

Since the TechNet Wiki is designed to be populated with data from many different people, there are a lot of layout and designs on the different articles. It seems like most people have their own way of doing things, and some even copy others and at least try to make things look similar. So that brings...

Hello everybody, this is my first post on the TechNet Wiki blog. My name is Fernando, and I'm a Microsoft Partner and Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) here in Brazil. Survival Guides are my favorite Wiki articles. A Survival Guide is a collection of all Wiki articles and external links about...

So how can you use TNWiki to challenge our language barriers? By taking these three EASY steps! 1. It all starts with English articles. (Because it has to start somewhere!) Do you have a great article idea to write (or you already wrote)? Then don’t hesitate to post it!...

Well, I'm introducing it to you if you haven't received a proper introduction yet.. But that's the only exception. Hey. Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Today we're going to take a look at a sweet Gallery script from Microsoft employee, Anil Erduran: Anil Erduran's Profile You can also...

A few people have asked me why our team uses the TechNet wiki to publish our content. I tell them that the number one reason why we use the wiki is that it saves us time and enables us to get our content out to the community faster than our traditional processes. That sounds good on paper, but what is...

One of the things that I like to provide (and see used) for longer TechNet Wiki articles are Return to top links. These are useful when an article is longer than just a section or two. I typically think about using the Return to top links when I feel it necessary to create a table of contents for an...

Many of you are Wiki Ninjas in the TechNet Wiki . We appreciate your contributions and passion for helping others in the community, but there are many other places to contribute, some of them Wikis. So where else do you Wiki? Ad a comment to this post and share: Name and URL of the Wiki Link...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! This is the fourth article in the Social Synergy series: TNWiki + TechNet Gallery TNWiki + CodePlex TNWiki + TechNet Forums TNWiki + Blogs (this article) So... Why should I use TechNet Wiki if I already blog about Microsoft technologies? ...

When you've published an article on Wiki, don't think your job as author is over... It's a healthy tactic to check back on your articles once in a while. And it also applies to articles which you aren't initial author of, but which you've been largely contributing to. To facilitate the check, I...

One thing that can hold people back from contributing on a Wiki is the uncertainty of what they can add to the community. There are numerous ways to contribute and not all of them mean that you have to be the most knowledgeable person in any technology. Below we present a few ways that YOU can contribute...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! This is the third article in the Social Synergy series: TechNet Gallery + TNWiki CodePlex + TNWiki TechNet Forums + TNWiki (this article) What does Social Synergy mean for using TechNet Wiki with MSDN/TechNet/Expression Forums? 1. Synergy...

In the beginning there was TechNet and there was MSDN. Separate technical content on different Microsoft websites for developers and IT Pros. Then, one day not too long ago, some folks in each camp, primarily the ones involved in using Windows Powershell, said “Hey, there are some things, sometimes a...

It's a good question, isn't it? Why are there comments on the bottom of every wiki article on TechNet Wiki? After all, you won't find them on other wiki sites, right? They aren't on SharePoint wikis or just about any wiki that I can think of. Here is an example of the Comments feature on TechNet...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Let's get one thing straight first... can you use TechNet Wiki to earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals for your TechNet/MSDN Profile? YES YOU CAN!!! I've seen people who know they can get Recognition Points for Forums, Gallery, or Blogs, but...

As a Wiki fan you probably have compiled a nice set of articles to be proud of. If that's you, then good job! That's fantastic! But how do you manage your collection? To keep statistics you need good data. It seems easy but think of a title that make sense. It's important to choose the right key...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Gallery + TechNet Wiki = Community Synergy Regular conversations come up about which social tool we should use. Should we use a Blog, Forum, Gallery, or Wiki? TechNet Gallery is a place where you can upload files for Code and for Whitepapers (Word files, PDFs...

Today’s blog post is based on the wiki article at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-find-stuff-on-the-technet-wiki.aspx . Feel free to add to the wiki article – it is the wiki way! Can you add instructions for your favorite RSS reader? Thanks in advance! The TechNet wiki...

The next time you find something helpful in community, say thank you. It is one of the most powerful tools we community members have to inspire, encourage, expand and evolve our communities and the information experience. Acknowledge the contribution wherever it is made and then Tweet a quick note...

We had some folks asking how this blog got its name, so for this edition of Wiki Life Wednesday, we're going to talk about why this blog is named Wiki Ninjas! Actually, we're going to do it with a multiple choice question. We will only tell you what the answer is if you guess first in the comments...