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

Firstly, here is the weekly leader board snapshot:

Below are the results of a mega-crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Markus Vilcinskas is first, with 74 revisions over 12 articles, including a great bunch of how-to articles, mostly around Powershell and FIM

i.biswajith comes second again this week, with 47 revisions over just 4 articles. Some good hard work here.

Richard Mueller makes it up to third, with an 46 revisions over 23 articles.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Richard Mueller is first, with those 23 articles

Normannp comes second with 14 articles

Luigi Bruno is joint second, with 14 articles.

Markus Vilcinskas is therefore third, with those 12 articles 

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

The article most updated this week is My TechNet WIKI by i.biswajith. This prolific Wiki contributor has listed the pages he has contributed, in a page of it's own.

A nice collection Biswajit (is that the correct name?)

The next most changed article this week is also a new entry, ADMT-Migration ("Domain local" group with all members by i.biswajith 

Thanks for all your work, these are great articles.

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The largest article to receive some attention this week is E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies originally started by Monica Rush 

This is an awesome collection of references that should be in everyone's bookmark collection.

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

The article to receive the most revisions this week is FOR THE SECOND WEEK RUNNING,  Master Data Services in the Sky by JoeyDj.

Joey beat his previous week's revisions with 43 this week!

A man who has clearly learnt the pain of losing unsaved work XD

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

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was from dwpoyner to Windows Small Business Server 2003, 2008, 2011 - External Backup Drives Compatibility List created by Steven Banks - SBS MVP

His addition? Another serial number to the list of missing numbers. (shown here)

Most Popular Article Award  Article with most revisers

This week's most popularly edited article is a REAL jewel, and a new arrival it's Twitter handles of industry experts on Microsoft technologies by Clint Huffman

This week it was edited by Rick Sheikh [MSFT], David E. Craig, Mark Morowczynski [MSFT] and Clint Huffman himself.

This is definitely one to bookmark, as i suspect it will fill to a great collection of handles. Thanks Clint, great idea!

Thanks as always to all you wikipedians, readers and writers alike.

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Hi everyone. Today I will take some time to spotlight every frenchy on the wiki, and most of all to thanks them for their excellent's work on the wiki !!!

Tord G.Nordahl wrote a blog post about the French Wiki Ninjas in the past, but I wanted to see if more was coming to the wiki. I tried to find how well the french community was doing :-)

I'am really happy to see the french's community getting bigger !, and again thanks everyone for your times and contributions !

nb; If I forgetted someone, just let me know I will modify the list

- French Ninja Phil (Wiki, Profile, Twitter)

Hello and welcome everybody to our Thursday - Community Win.

A lot has changed since the old days back in the early 90s, especially in the IT world. Go back with me into this time just for a moment. What was the appearance of computer programs at this time? Normally it was executed in an ugly black console. As a user you needed some knowledge to work with these programs. What has changed since these days? Of course, you could say that programs looks nicer, but there is one thing that has changed dramatically (as part of programs which looks nicer): the user experience. Since the iPhone/iPad and Windows 8 user experience is the holy grail to satisfy your users.

What has this to do with our wiki?

Beside the information you provide in your articles the appearance is an important part of a good article. The ninja guru Ed Price has started an article about the User Experience Guidelines for the wiki. It will help you to transform your article into a master piece. It starts with guidelines about casing rules and gives information about fonts, page layout, links, tags, and many more. Why should I care about all these things? It will help other community members to find information faster and it creates an equal experience throughout the wiki.

- German Ninja Jan (Twitter, Blog, Profile)

Have you ever thought about your copyright on the articles you publish on Technet Wiki, or on other Wiki platforms or other code sharing platforms like Microsoft's Codeplex or open source platform Sourceforge?
What's the consequence of using Technet Wiki for publishing code samples like powershell scripts?

Have you ever read the small print?

A while ago, the following situation happened with powershell code published on your beloved TechNet Wiki platform.
(Names have been changed and anonymized to protect the innocent.) 

An MVP posted a powershell script. A company A ("Defendant") on the other side of the ocean used it in their product.
Some time later another company B ("Plaintiff") from the other side of the world sued the company A for using their scripts.
That means that the company either used the MVPs script as well and the person who grabbed it, doesn’t want to admit it, so company thinks they created it.
Or it means that the dev and the MVP just had the same great idea (which happens a lot, to be honest).

On TechNet Wiki, copyright is handled by the TNWiki Terms of use.
You can find the small print on the footer of the TNWiki main page or any Wiki page.

"ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE

Microsoft provides you with access to a variety of resources on this web site, including documents, photographs, videos, and other graphical, textual or audio-visual content (“Content”), software and computer code, including developer tools and sample code (“Software”), and communication forums and other services ("Services").  The Content, Software, Services and all other aspects of this web site are subject to these Terms of Use.  Microsoft reserves the right to update these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you.  The applicable and most current version of the Terms of Use can be reviewed by clicking on the “Terms of Use” hypertext link located at the bottom of our web pages.

By accessing or using this web site in any way, you agree to and are bound by the terms of this Terms of Use.  If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions contained in the Terms of Use, do not access or use this web site." 

A bit further in the Terms of Use, you'll read:

"SUBMISSIONS PROVIDED TO THIS WEB SITE

Microsoft does not claim ownership of code, content, comments, feedback, suggestions, information or materials that you provide via this web site or any Services ("Submission"). However, by providing a Submission, you are irrevocably granting Microsoft and its affiliated companies the right to make, use, modify, distribute and otherwise commercialize the Submission in any way and for any purpose (including by granting the general public the right to use your Submissions in accordance with this web site’s Terms of Use, which may change over time), and the right to publish your name, city of residence, and e-mail address in connection with your Submission.  These rights are granted under all applicable intellectual property rights you own or control.  

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submissions. Microsoft is under no obligation to post or use any Submission, and Microsoft may remove any Submission at any time.

By providing a Submission you warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission and that your Submission is not subject to any rights of a third party (including any personality or publicity rights of any person). "

And also

"2. Grant of Rights

(A) Copyright Grant - Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create."

Just for your reference,

• in Wikipedia, text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, which is a sligthly different approach.
• Microsoft's Codeplex
• Terms of Use
• Code of Conduct

When discussing the case with the Master TNWiki Ninja he explained it as follows.

Copyright on the TNWiki is handled just like blogs or forums. You can only publish your own content (or content owned by Microsoft).
When you do that, you’re granting Microsoft to use your content in the social context. But you aren’t losing your copyright. You’re just granting permission of use.

It seems that such a case happened a few times before...
The result was that parties were offered to reach an agreement as to what the content on the Wiki should be and in some cases the content was deleted.

How could you solve the case as described earlier?

Removing the content is an option. Legally speaking.
But that's not the end of the story. 
You could ask to have a sample of their content on the Wiki with a link back to the full article (and a note about what content was granted with permission by the author).
This can be done in the same Wiki article, or a new article can be created to do this.

We should also recommend you do not sue each other, since we are talking about a context of a social world where content belongs to everyone.

Just in case the "owner" doesn't want the code freely used, don't publish it on social or community media first of all, but alternatively it's recommended that the owner publishes the code on his own blog.
He should move his blog to his own site (versus a provider), where he can disable the ability to copy content.
Because this is the best way to prevent anyone from copying your content when you publish it online for anyone to copy.

Quoting the Master WikiNinja: "You can sue anyone over anything".
But that's not the spirit of a Wiki Ninja!

Don't forget the TNWiki is an open, social and collaborating community which requires respect for someone elses content!

[Ka-jah Shakaah!]
The Security & Identity Ninja.

Peter Geelen     
peter@fim2010.com
Premier Field Engineer - Security & Identity at Microsoft
CISSP, CISA, MCT

(*) Free interpretation of old school music

Today, we have a bonus featured article: Windows Server 2012 Test Lab Guides.

The Windows Server 2012 (previously known as Windows Server "8") Test Lab Guides (TLGs) are a set of documents that describe how to configure and demonstrate the new features and functionality in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Preview in a simplified and standardized test lab environment.

The test lab starts with the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab, which can consist of two subnets representing a simplified intranet and simulated Internet. The following figure shows the initial setup of the Windows Server 2012 test lab based on the Test Lab Guide: Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration.





Some key changes from the Windows Server 2012 base configuration test lab and the Windows Server 2008 R2 base configuration test lab are the following:

• The configuration of a simplified public key infrastructure (PKI) has been removed. You can add this to your base configuration with the Windows Server 2012 mini-module: Basic PKI
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• Windows PowerShell command equivalents are now available in addition to the UI-based procedures.

For a list of all the Windows Server 2012 Test Labs, see the Windows Server 2012 Test Lab Guides article.

About the article:

• 27 edits
• 28 comments
• Originally and mostly written by Joe Davies
• Significant contributions from Kurt Hudson and Justin Hall
• Total of 9 contributors

Go check out Windows Server 2012 Test Lab Guides, and let us know what you think!

Enjoy!

- Ninja Ed