Welcome to another weekly addition of our Top Contributors!

We featured Margriet three weeks ago, but we're featuring her again because she got to the #1 spot this week, because she's got some SharePoint 2012 Best Practices up, and, well, the only ones who haven't been featured yet are people with less than 20 edits this week. So we're featuring Margriet again. Check it out...

Here is Margriet...

Margriet's Profile

And since Margriet is a Wiki Ninjette, we present her with the best way we could possibly honor her, with the Wiki Ninjette...

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm!

   - Ninja Ed

 Welcome to our Saturday blog post, the Top 10 Contributors of TechNet Wiki for the week!

I've featured myself before, so today we're going to focus on the activities this week from R.Alikhani. Congratulations also go out to Fernando, Thiago, Richard, Roger, WReed, Luciano, Tim, and Tschaur! Great contributions this week!

Now let's look at...

R.Alikhani's Profile

R.Alikhani has several certificates, including MTCNA, Security+, MCSA, MCTS, and MCP.

All of R.Alikhani's TechNet Wiki Articles

His contributions this week range from smaller helpful edits, like clarifying OWA in this article and updating titles to title casing (which is important for overall consistency in the look and feel), to contributing more in his own articles:

• The Case that an Administrator Cannot Log On to the Domain from a Client Computer (en-US)
• How to Use Computer Management Console to Log Off a Computer Remotely in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 (en-US)
• Windows Server Backup Tool and Its Relation to Windows Event Log Service (en-US)
• Using Windows Server Backup Tool Requires a User with Local Administrator or Local Backup Operator Credential (en-US)
• The "The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is Incorrect" Error Message Appears in the Remote Installation Folder Location Phase of the Configuring a WDS Server (en-US)

R.Alikhani has a great knowledge of Windows Server and Windows IT. Congratulations!

Jump on in! The Wiki's warm.

   - Ninja Ed 

It has been an interesting week for soccer fans as the European championship soccer started in Poland/Ukraine.  For Windows Azure adapets it has been a week to remember as several announcements on Windows Azure were made. Microsoft hosted a live streaming event with Scott Guthrie 7th of June from San Francisco (Meet the New Windows Azure). In coming weeks you can expect Wiki articles on new services like:

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Windows Azure Virtual Network
• Windows Azure Web Sites

These are exciting new services available on Windows Azure.

Another important release in coming months will be Windows 8. The release preview is currently available. Windows 8 is the new desktop, yet we will also see the release of Windows Server 2012 (Release Candidate is available). Last but least we might see releases of a new Office and SharePoint version (code named Office 15 and SharePoint 15) at the end of this year. Microsoft will be probably try to make them available as Beta in June around TechEd's (US is June 11-14, and Europe is June 26-29). During the events more of these and other products (i.e. Exchange 15, Visual Studio 2012) and technologies will be revealed. These major releases will result in a plethora of Wiki articles that will further enrich the TechNet Wiki.

Hello! It's Monday! That means it's time for another Interview with a Wiki Ninja!

Today we're going to talk to Patris_70, a very proactive wiki writer, who has authored 110 TechNet Wiki articles! That includes some English articles about Active Directory and a lot of articles in our growing collection of Persian/Farsi language articles here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/fa_2D00_IR/default.aspx.

Patris_70's Profile

Now let's get started!

Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?

My name is Patris. I am Iranian, but I am living in Hamburg, Germany. I work for an IT Consulting Company. I studied Electronics & Computers in Iran. My specialties are AD, GPO, and Windows (I am a Windows 3.x kid).

What are your big projects right now?

Several years ago, I started with Self-Study, than MCSE, MCITP (EA), and CCNA. I learned Dell Servers and SAN. I am learning VMware Esxi 5.

In Iran, I had a lot of MS and Telecommunications (CO & PBX) projects. We currently have a Cloud project for one customer.

I'm also working on translating Active Directory Administrator’s Pocket Consultant to the Farsi (Persian) language. Click here to see the translation progress. 

And after this book, another 11 MS books (all books for free). Thanks again to Microsoft and the O'Reilly book publisher. I am planning to record video tutorials too.

Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?

I love community collaborations. I'm contributing on the Cisco Persian forum & the Persian Admins forum and on some TechNet forums (mostly in the AD forum).

What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

TechNet Wiki is for everybody. TechNet Wiki has the best information, knowledge, and articles about MS products. Everyone can write articles and share information. Everyone is ready to help on the Wiki.  Also, What we expect even more is that everything is ready for us to use (free space for articles and images, MS Word Editor built in, and other functions). Remember several years ago, we wanted to read and understand some documents or articles, or found problems in a blog post, but this information was not complete or clear!! Now anyone can edit and improve the information.

Now, we can find the best information and articles in TechNet Wiki and we can find them very easily (just type your word in search box and Bingo).

What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?

When I read articles from experts in TNWiki, I need to just test what I learn on my TestLab, and then I got a free training. Also, because of this, my Wiki information stays up to date, and I get new ideas for more Wiki articles. Over 70% of the articles in TNWiki are real-world scenarios. That's exactly what I need in my job.  

What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

I like a lot of the themes that are written on TechNet Wiki, but the main ones that interest me are: AD, GPO/GPP, Troubleshooting, and Exchange.

On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?

Active Directory Administrator’s Pocket Consultant book (click here to see the translation progress). Because the book has over 300 pages, and I must translate it correctly.

What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

Active Directory Attributes in the ADUC GUI Tool (en-US)

How to View or Delete Active Directory Delegated Permissions (en-US)

How to Set the Keyboard Layout through Group Policy (GPO)

Step-by-Step Migration DHCP from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows Server Migration Tools (en-US)

Who are your top 5 favorite Wiki article writers?

Dr. Thomas W Shinder

Richard Mueller

Luciano Lima

Kurt L Hudson

Henrik Walther

Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?

Ed Price, Yuri Diogenes, Richard Mueller (MVP), and Fernando Lugão Veltem.

Every time, if I have a problem, Ed helps me and answer me immediately.

Yuri Diogenes is Mr. Master & Leader. We know about his great articles. But, as Ed wrote in this post, he is a leader.

Richard writes great articles, and I have learned a lot from him (both Wiki articles and forum answers).

Fernando Lugão Veltem is a great guy. I have not seen anyone with so much power. He writes and edits so many articles and answers so many questions on forums.

What does success look like for TechNet Wiki?

The success of TNWiki is to grow it. Every day, we see new people with great articles. Now, Wiki is a reference for people and many people have learned how it can be so easy to write an article and share information. For me, this means success.

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Thanks to our interviewee for the week, Patris!

If you have any questions about his translations, his articles, or any other work he's doing, please leave it in a comment below!

And when you're on TechNet Wiki, don't forget to say hi to Patris and leave him comments there as well!

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm.

   - Ninja Ed

Hello and welcome to the Community Win series of TechNet Wiki!

Today I would like to share some charts again (well, it always can be expected from me).

If you keep an eye on the TechNet Wiki main page, then you might know that there is a Recent Activity section at the bottom of the page. It has a Show More link as well. Just click on it for a few times, and the history of the Wiki will open up for you.

Now extract the data to Excel, do some manual magic, and create a new PivotTable. Add a chart and poof, statistics made in a few seconds!

Let's see what happened in the last 8 hours (when I created this "snapshot"):

This means 9 new articles, 29 comments and 59 edits from 24 Wiki Ninjas! Fantastic work. It's a bit difficult to tell which color is which Ninja, so let's see them in the order of their activity count:

Well done, Jennifer! Who created more new articles?

Thanks, Luan! Now let's see edits and comments as well:

Fernando and Jennifer took the first places of these categories, thank you!

But, these are "just" statistics, and it's better if we don't forget two things.

First, these numbers are just from the last 8 hours of the TechNet Wiki. The sample might be unrepresentative. But make a quick calculation and you can roughly guess how fast Wiki grows. There will be new things to write about, always. And of course, new Ninjas will come and join.

Second, that a single comment or edit can be very important. It can be very heartening if someone posts a simple "thanks" as a comment. It keeps the spirit of all earlier contributors of a Wiki page. And of course, mistakes should be corrected. So, every small thing counts. This is why I left all of the names on the first chart :)

All Wiki Ninjas - thanks for all your contributions!

Zoli

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