Welcome to another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Sat-Fri)

First off, here is the screenshot of this week's leader board:

Congratulations go to everyone above, as it has been an amazing week for wiki deposits... 

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

The person that has saved the most revisions across all their week's article updates is Fernando Lugão Veltem with a MIND BOGGLING 108 revisions over 32 articles!! Outstanding work Fernando!

Second place is Luigi Bruno with an equally eye watering 76 revisions over 73 articles! Wow!

All this uber-work has knocked "Lord of the Wiki" Ed Price - MSFT down to third, with an impressive 72 revisions over 36 articles.

I'd just like to add that this week also saw an amazing amount of work from many others, including Sandro Pereira, Owen Duncan [MSFT], Caio Vilas Boas, yottun8, & Hezequias Vasconcelos (in that order) all putting in between 51 & 43 revisions!

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

The winner this week is Luigi Bruno, with a jaw-dropping 73 updated articles!!

Second is Ed Price - MSFT, just behind with a respectable 36 updated articles!

yottun8 is back in the game, in third, with 33 updates articles!

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

Well, well, according to my crawler, the document that had the most change (including HTML tags) this week was Wiki Ninja Stick Figures by Ana Paula de Almeida

This document is one to watch, as I suspect it could grow and grow. Thanks to Ana for creating and growing it. A glance at the comments section shows this is a collaborative effort, that is at the heart of the Wiki community.

Also worth mentioning is second place - Test Lab Guide Mini-Module: Cross-Forest Certificate Enrollment using Certificate Enrollment Web Services by Kurt L Hudson

It is this week's longest of many professional and high quality documents Kurt uploads to the Wiki. He is a "Senior Technical Writer" for Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD)

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The biggest (longest) document to receive significant changes this week is Windows XP: Certificate Status and Revocation Checking

This is surely one of the longest documents I have seen in a while, with an absolutely amazing amount of techie goodness within.

Congratulations again to Kurt L Hudson (Microsoft) for his outstanding work.

Smallest Significant Edit Award   Size isn't everything! Every edit counts.

Two articles with the same tweak Como ativar o recurso de Hyper-V no Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012 - Server Manager - Verificando Eventos Hyper-V

The tiny tweaker was yottun8, took offense to the existence of "Hyper-V" AND "Hyper V" both being tags. he removed the latter one:

Hyper-V, Hyper V, Windows 8

And of course he's right, it IS actually "Hyper-V".

The point being in this case I guess, is that the search engine will ignore the hyphen anyway, and so they are effectively the same.

Quickest Helping Hand  Correcting each-other's work is what TNWiki is all about.

This award celebrates the act of collaboration, and highlights the fastest update of another's work.

This week's fastest updated article was Windows Server 2012 Server Core: Instalar Microsoft .NET Framework - 11 minutes after the previous author.

This was a tiny change by Adriel Gavazza...

se você tentar executar este esse comando

Congratulations to everyone who wiki'd this week, there has been a noticeable swell of new content and community collaboration.

See you next week for another weekly round-up

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Welcome everyone to todays Wiki Life.

Todays topic will be ratings. Ratings can be a nice tool to measure the usefulness/quality of content. This blog uses them for example, people can rate the blog entries, giving feedback to the authors what topics they liked and in that way influence what topics or style of presentation for content is used in the future. Forums have something similar, there you can vote a posting helpful, indicating again to the author if the content did help.

Sounds good so far, so why aren't ratings used for the wiki? One of the differences between blogs/forums and the wiki is the dynamic of content. While writing a blog or forum post, you usually finalize the content. Of course you can edit it later on as an author, but you usually won't modify it a lot, maybe spelling errors, broken links, or a note you believe should be added. In blogs, if you find the whole entry should be updated, you'd propably rather do a follow up blog post, or write a comment to your blog. Using the forum, you'd most likely simply reply to the ongoing discussion/conversation. The original posts are rather static content.

There is the big difference to the wiki. The entries on a wiki are ideally not static, but very much dynamic. Of course there are also metrics on the wiki that hint at the quality of an article. Not all metrics are visible out of the box, like the number of views an article has (the original author gets an indication with milestone archievements), how many other articles link to it (not visible right now to my knowledge, but who knows, might be something Peter collects over time, see his work here). One metric is visible however, and that's the number of revisions, which also gives us the reason why "simple" ratings don't work well with wiki articles. Instead of rating the article, you would basically rate the revision you see at that moment. Assume you would rate an article as being not so good content. Now someone comes along and improves the article (or you do revise the article yourself): the old revision described the problem, and the addition in the new revision also shows how to work around the problem. The article now is better than the rating it recieved in the past. This can happen the other way around as well, say there is a article describing a fix to a problem with a product. However, the product gets a service pack, and now the described solution would cause more harm than it helps. The good thing about TechNet Wiki is that eventually the articles get modified by the community. The ratings however wouldn't change. So that's why there are no ratings used for wiki articles.

There is of course still the option to give feedback to an article. You can comment on them, or you can edit/add to them. And maybe some day in the future, more metrics will be visible, too. If you have ideas on this topic, you can always suggest them at http://communityninjas.uservoice.com/forums/149974-technet-wiki or start a discussion on the wiki forum over here.

Florian

Hello Community, Luciano Lima here today to update you on the latest news in the TechNet Wiki international community from Brazil.

The highlight of this week goes to Vinicius Mozart, who wrote several of articles about Windows Server 2012.

• Qualidade de Serviço Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012)
• Failover DHCP (Windows Server 2012)
• Conhecendo SMB Multichannel (Windows Server 2012)
• Agrupamento de NIC Windows Server 2012
• Edições do SQL Server 2008 R2 (Edições Core e Especializadas)
• Segurança da Informação (Pilares de Segurança)
• Ingressando Desktop Linux no Active Directory do (Windows Server 2012)
• Contas de Computadores Active Directory
• Convertendo Windows Server Core 2012 para Windows Server 2012 Full (Interface Gráfica)

Big hugs go to the TechNet Wiki community, keep up the contribution, have a great Friday and don’t forget to tweet #TNWIKI and follow us:

@WikiNinjas

@WikiNinjas_BR

They've all gone home for the holidays, and left ME holding the keys!

Do they know what they've done..?

Secrets! 

This means I can tell you two top Microsoft secrets, and they should stay posted here for at least a few days, before anyone comes back from holiday and hides the truth!

Secret 1. I'm sure you heard the rumours, but it's true... Bill Gates reads every TechNet Wiki contribution, and sends chocolates to his favourite contributors!

Secret 2. Ed Price is Santa!

It's obvious really, there's only one man I know who gets that much done... (example)

Spread the love 

Wikis should support one another at this time of the year, so please take the time to consume and maybe even contribute to another lesser known wiki:

The Christmas Specials Wiki

Just for YOU

In honour of the hard work and so much goodness that has been contributed this year, I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has knitted Christmas jumpers for every TechNet Wiki Ninja stick man!

Take your pick...

What is a Ninja stick man? Link 1 - Link 2 

Final thought...

If this were Halloween, I'd be telling you that TechNet Wiki is an anagram for "I chew kitten".

Instead, more fitting for the kind of functions we are subjected to, at this time of year, I can tell you that it's also an anagram for "with necktie"!

Happy holidays from and to all the TechNet Wiki Ninjas!

Normal service will return tomorrow!

Best regards,

Pete Laker

Here is the weekly analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Fri-Sat)

Firstly, here is the usual weekly leader board snapshot:

Heroes one and all, I'm sure you'll agree. 

Here are the usual awards, as a result of a two hour crawl through every change, from the updated articles feed...

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Ed Price - MSFT sets the gold standard for wiki'ing, with an astronomical 271 revisions over 142 articles!!

Second place is Sandro Pereira with a great amount of work, no less than 61 revisions over just three articles! All wonderful resources worth highlighting this week:

• Training Resources for BizTalk Developer
• Training Resources for BizTalk Administrators
• BizTalk: List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions 

At this point, my wiki crawler seems to have broken, as the results do not match a manual follow-up check, but I'd guess Kurt L Hudson is up there, as I see a great number of revisions from Kurt this week.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

The winner this week is of course, the legendary Ed Price - MSFT, with 142 updated articles!!

For the second week running, second is held by Fernando Lugão Veltem, with 14 updated articles, half his previous week's total.

lovely tapan is up to third, just behind, with 12 updated articles.

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

The largest change to a document this week was Step by Step Guide - Two Tier PKI Hierarchy Deployment, started only on Monday, by Nilesh  Patel.

This is a great document, detailing how to set up Active Directory® Certificate Services (AD CS) in a lab environment.

Most of the changes are by Kurt L Hudson who has worked hard to contribute some great content this week.

Another article to arrive with plenty of new goodness is System Center 2012 Scenario: Fabric Monitoring by Brian Wren

This is a great resource which "provides the basic configuration and steps necessary to implement fabric monitoring in a private cloud based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012"

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The biggest (longest) document to receive significant changes this week is as above, the Step by Step Guide - Two Tier PKI Hierarchy Deployment.

This is a truly awesome document that will no doubt enrich many people's lives, built up throughout the week, mostly by Kurt.

Most Revised Article Award   Article with the most revisions in a week

The Article to receive the most revisions is again Step by Step Guide - Two Tier PKI Hierarchy Deployment.

Kurt's hard work building this up has been the real talking point of the week.

Most Edited Article Award  Article with most revisers

This award returns this week, because the Step by Step Guide - Two Tier PKI Hierarchy Deployment was also edited this week, as it grew, by five wiki ninjas:

Nilesh  Patel, Kurt L Hudson, Ed Price - MSFT, Richard Mueller & lovely tapan

Great to see such collaboration!

Smallest Significant Edit Award   Size isn't everything! Every edit counts.

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable contribution was DIEGO RIERA

His addition was an extra link to the fantastic Brazilian Virtualization portal : Virtualização

Reiniciar todas as máquinas virtuais do host.

Keeping the portals up to date with new links is a very valuable contribution.

Congratulations to all wiki ninjas listed above. Your contributions are always noticed and appreciated. 

Catch you next week with more high achievers!

Best regards,
Pete Laker