Welcome to our weekly Top 10 Contributors on TechNet Wiki!

There were 4 people with over 50 contributions this week. Let's see what's happening...

Ed Price - Well, it looks like I've been doing a lot of editing while hosting the TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge this week. Please go check that out if you haven't (current tally)! I won't feature myself, since I featured myself A few weeks ago anyway (Top 10 Wiki Ninjas: Ed Price travels back in time to SQL Server 2000). How tacky is that? =^)

Fernando Veltam - We featured Fernando here back in November of last year. I'm happy to announce that Fernando is added to the blog, and you'll get to see some blog posts from him in the future! This week, Fernando has been working on Portuguese translations and on helping us clean up spam.

Luigi Bruno - We featured Luigi back in December last year. Luigi is also a contributor on this blog. (He's only blogged once, but it was actually one of our most successful blog posts.)

Heslacher - Well, we haven't featured Heslacher yet, who has been hard at work cleaning up spam and helping explain why.

Luciano Lima - We featured Luciano in January. Luciano is an MVP and is leading the Portuguese efforts in the TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge. As you can see here, they're doing a fantastic job!

And the #6-10 top Wiki Ninjas this week... Tord has been leading our Norwegian translation efforts. Jewel has had a fantastic run fixing all our typos and misspellings, (thank you Jewel, you help prove the value of my Reason #3 here). Jason H is an Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft SQL Server support team, and he's been writing and editing DQS articles (Jason's blog). Ana has been contributing some great Portuguese content (we featured Ana in December). And Pronichkin has been contributing on some Windows Server articles (check out our interview with Artem here).

So congratulations to all of this week's Top 10 Wiki Ninjas!

Now let's see what Heslacher's been up to...

  Heslacher's Profile

Here is Heslacher's German webiste: http://www.inflowmation.de/ (for the company, inFLOWmation)

As you'll see in the profile, Heslacher has been helping us clean up spam. Spam is any article that doesn't talk about Microsoft technology, and generally exists to be a landing page from online search to link people to the spammer's webpage. This is a common issue in all social-media-type websites (wiki, blog, Twitter, Facebook, email, forums, etc.). Specific features are already in place to prevent bots from creating new articles (automatic, preprogrammed scripts). And we also ban accounts that spam. Anyway, Heslacher's contributions are very valuable to the Wiki community!

Here's an example of a spam article that Heslacher cleaned up in order to be removed later: SPAM_20120320_0016

That particular author then created a new article asking why their article was considered spam. I turned that article into this discussion here:

Discussion: How to Make Sure Your Article Is Not Marked as Spam

On that page, Heslacher mentioned...

See: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../695.wiki-about-technet-wiki.aspx

"The TechNet Wiki is a library of information about Microsoft technologies written by the community for the community."

"The Wiki is focused on Microsoft technologies. The community will edit or remove topics that get too far off track. "

And then in forums, Heslacher has been helping clean house in a different way, by helping people solve their Visual Basic issues...

In addition to proposing answers when people answer questions (like here), Heslacher has recently answered a few Visual Basic questions...

get value problem

Borderstyle nicht in System.windows.forms.Control

VB Array to C# Array moven, How? (a .NET question)

Registry Value Creation 

Creating an event that the processing of the file is completed (Visual C#)

So thanks again to Heslacher and for the valuable contributions to our community!

   - Ninja Ed (Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Profile) 

Leave a comment below with an update and let's get rolling!

For the article to count, it has to have been published on March 12th or later.

Come back here as I tally up the results for our check in!

Here are the lists...

Multi Language Wiki Articles - The articles translated into other languages

Translated into Portuguese - All the articles translated into Portuguese

Portuguese current tally: 42

Translated into Italian -  All the articles translated into Italian

Italian current tally: 6

Translated into German -  All the articles translated into German

German current tally: 14

NorwegianNinja - All the articles translated into Norwegian

Norwegian current tally: 21

Translated into French - All the articles translated into French  

French current tally: 11

Translated into English - Recently started

Translated into Japanese - I just created this one

Translated into Spanish - I just created this one too 

Note that most of these tags have more articles than the ones I'm counting. I'm just counting the ones created after March 12th, because that's when this competition began.

Current Tally

As of Friday, 3/23/12, this is the current tally per language, but not per person. Note that we'll have a final award for the language that contributed the most (a Friday article highlighting their achievements and a Wiki Ninja image holding their nation's flag) and a final award for the individual contributor who translated the most articles (a Monday interview and a personal Wiki Ninja image).

Here's how the languages have been doing so far...

1. Portuguese: 42

2. Norwegian: 21

3. German: 14

4. French: 11

5. Italian: 6

Keep it up! You're all doing a great job!

     - Ninja Ed (Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Profile)

Stephen Banks, SBS MVP, created External Backup Drives Compatibility List, a catalog of which backup drives are compatible with different versions of Small Business Server.  Within a few minutes, other had extended the article and over 1.5 years there have been over 50 revisions and thousands of page views. This is a great example of how community can work together to build authoritative content, maintain quality and relevancy, and help SBS users with an immediate need.

Community plays well together!

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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 check out Anil's website here: anilerduran.com

Here is the script, which you can download from TechNet Gallery:

PowerWiki - Search TechNet Wiki content in PowerShell

PowerWiki is a very simple module to search Technet Wiki content within the PowerShell Console.

The Module can be installed manually by downloading and extracting files in;

•        %USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
•        %WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules

Now you can import the module with the following command:

Import-Module PowerWiki

The Module includes the single function “PowerWiki”. When you are working with your local PowerShell console, simply call the PowerWiki function with a keyword that you want to search for on Technet Wiki.

It pops-up Internet Explorer and goes to the exact wiki page.

 Again, go check it out and download the script here, from TechNet Gallery:

PowerWiki - Search TechNet Wiki content in PowerShell

Thanks to Anil for this fantastic solution, and make sure you check out TechNet Wiki. You know. Everyone's wikiying. Only the non-Wikiers aren't. They're the only ones.

     - Ninja Ed (Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Profile)

Welcome to our Tuesday article spotlight!

So I'm not really sure why we haven't featured this sooner, but you know, better now than never!

Check out the ever-evolving version here:

Wiki: Getting Started

To get started with the Wiki, you can view content or you can contribute by adding information to existing articles, updating content, or adding new pages and stub articles.

View this quick, 1-minute, whirlwind tour of the wiki from Sean Jenkin, a former Microsoft Senior Program Manager:

To find information

• Use search.
  
  
  
  NOTE: The scope of this search is the Wiki, not TechNet/MSDN/Internet.
• Browse the List of Products and Related Topics to find information on the product that you are looking for.
• Browse the Article Spotlight, which lists out important topics for each product.
• Use tags.
• Monitor contentto get the latest information.
• Check the Stubs.

To contribute:

• Join
• Sign-in (upper-right corner)
• Post an article. What kind of articles should I write?
  • Title Guidelines
• Add a stub page.
• Edit an article.
• Add some common tags.
• Post a comment on an article.

Learn how to write and edit an article:

• Using the Editor
• Style Guide
  • Title Guidelines
• Blogger's Guide to the Wiki
• How to Insert Formatted Code
• How to Revert an Article Change
• Message Templates
• Non-English Language Title Guidelines
• How to Monitor Content
• How to Get Help

Here are some other things you can do:

• How to Change Your Display Name
• All Things Profile
• How to Change Your Avatar
• How to File a Bug or Request a Feature
  • List of Known Issues on TechNet Wiki
  • TechNet Wiki Feature Requests

Again, you can get the full, evolving version here:

Wiki: Getting Started

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm!

    - Ninja Ed  (Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Profile)