Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Margriet Bruggeman — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:16:51 GMT

With a title like that, it's gotta be a winner!

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Ana Paula de Almeida — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:46:02 GMT

Ed, about the section Signatures, Credit, and Personalization is very good!

Simple and objective.

Tnks for your attention on this subject.

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

FZB — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:08:52 GMT

nice post :)

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Ed Price - MSFT — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:32:44 GMT

This blog about Best Practices got me excited!

Previously I had this guideline about Credits. See the "Credits section" bullet under "Page Layout" here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../1775.wiki-user-experience-guidelines.aspx

And then I got excited about this, so I added a new top-level section, called "Signatures, Credit, and Personalization" here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../1775.wiki-user-experience-guidelines.aspx

Thanks!

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Ed Price - MSFT — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:37:57 GMT

This is all good fodder for the new Wiki Community Council to tackle. =^)

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Ed Price - MSFT — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:37:36 GMT

The guideline thus far has been similar to Wikipedia. As Tord mentions, we have tags. We also have credit on the right side and in the History (more than Wikipedia has). We've also been using a "Credits" section at the bottom, so we'll probably want to move toward enforcing that as a guideline. That way the blogger can give credit to themselves (and link back to their blog) as the primary author of the Wiki article, but the Wiki community feels free to update the article.

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Tord G.Nordahl — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:10:15 GMT

I agree, however you can credit the contributors to the article in tags, so for instance if you search for the BizTalk Server Resources, you'll see the names of the People contributing to BizTalk in the "tag cloud". Great blog post though!

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Ana Paula de Almeida — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:33:26 GMT

Hi Peter, tnks!

A long time i think about this question. So, i decided explain my vision to think together about this.

Ana

re: Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility

Peter Geelen - MSFT — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:17:31 GMT

Great article!

And very good feedback, regarding the (non-)use of the signatures. Good candidate for guideline!