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:

An amazing score from everyone this week, hats off to all of you, and thank you, your work is being admired, discussed and appreciated by all in the TNWiki communities.

Below are the results of a humongously arduous crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Ed Price - MSFT comes first this week, with 341 revisions over 195 articles!! Ed wins the coveted "Wiki Legend" badge!

Yagmoth555 is second, with an omg 167 revisions over 142 articles and enters the TNWiki Hall of Fame (if we had one) 

Fernando Lugão Veltem comes third, with 74 revisions over 29 articles, another strong performance Fernando!

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Ed Price - MSFT comes first, with 195 articles! Wow Ed, lovin' your work there...

Yagmoth555 comes second, with 142 articles. Nice work!

Richard Mueller comes third, with 45 articles! Also very impressive!

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

The article most updated this week is Accessing an Web Service from a SQL Server CLR Assembly (Procedure or Function) by Wagner Bertolini Junior. This is also a new article from our legendary Brazilian community, and well made too. Thank you Wagner Bertolini Junior. And I guess thanks should go to Wagner Bertolini Senior for giving us him :D

Another great arrival worth mentioning is second largest changed - Using URL Rewrite to block certain clients from Exchange by Austin McCollum. A great extract for a specific and very useful aspect of security for Exchange. Well worth highlighting. 

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The largest article to receive some attention this week is Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule by Ed Price - MSFT. This is where you will find the history and ongoing list of us Wiki Ninja Blog contributors. Worth knowing if you want to watch out for posts from your favourite authors.

We all appreciate you rooting for us, and posting comments in support. The readership count for these posts are always impressive, but we'd love to hear from you too!

As that's not a real article, I give you number 2, or rather "#1 longest article" to be tinkered with this week - New Spatial Features in SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”, by Spatial Ed, recently tweaked by the one and only Yagmoth555.

I truly love this article. Just grab a cuppa and settle in. Who needs telly!

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

The article to receive the most revisions this week is Integrating Service Management Portal and API with System Center 2012 SP1, by Bruce R. Hamilton, with 20 revisions.

This is a an article that arrived last week, and Bruce has been working it to perfection over the last week. Well worth a read. Thanks Bruce.

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

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was by David-Allen to MP best Practice: Using the seed pattern for easy discovery byDan Rogers.

The smallest of typo corrections, simply adding a space between two joined words, but beloved by us all in the Wiki office when we were deciding on a winner this week.

Thanks as always to everyone above for enriching us with your knowledge and to all of you for reading this!

We are really very grateful for your time.

Best regards,
Pete Laker

 Hello Community, Luiz Henrique Lima Campos here today to update you on the latest news in the international community TechNet Wiki.
 
Let's talk first of the winners of the last day TechNet Wiki, February 20.

Brazil community

Priscila Mayumi Sato  with Article: Utilizando Entity Framework com SQL CE - as she took the Award: a Microsoft Windows 8 Mug!

Congratulations Priscila and always keep helping us with TechNet Wiki!

 
  
Congratulations and thanks for your commitment and dedication to contribute to the community of Microsoft TechNet Wiki.

International community

Serhad MAKBULOGLU with Article: Windows Server 2012 Kurulumu (TR-tr) - as he took the Award: a book... Windows® 8 Administration Pocket Consultant

Congratulations MAKBULOGLU and always keep helping us with TechNet Wiki!

 
  
Congratulations and thanks for your commitment and dedication to contribute to the community of Microsoft TechNet Wiki.

  Now for the prize of the Day March 20, 2013

  The next prize will be on March 20, 2013, two awards are again one will be for the international community, and one Award for Brazil, as we previously reported we will send mug and Book for any place in the world and the winner is also to anywhere in Brazil, we expect the participation of all.

Let Rewarding in Brazil a Mug of Windows 8 and to the international community we will reward with a pocket guide of Windows 8.

 
 
Want to know about the day TechNet Wiki? Go to:  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/14147.technet-wiki-day.aspx

In the eighth week, see you again!!

A big hug to everyone.

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Most of you know the KISS-principle, although some of you rather link it to the Ninja like painted rock band.
It usually stands for "keep it stupid simple", "keep it short and simple", "keep it simple sir", "keep it super simple", ..."keep it simple and straightforward" or "keep it simple and sincere".

In fact it comes down to the "Less is more" approach, which should be one of the core principles when developing and maintaining your Wiki articles.

Keep it simply structured

Most Wiki articles start small but quickly grow to a more elaborated document.
It's a good practice to build some structure from the beginning.

A basic structure can include

- [TOC] tag to get an idea of the content at first sight
- introduction to explain what the article is about
- Chapters (with header layout), to build the TOC
- References ("See also" section), References help to build credibility and provide additional information from other sources.

Keep it simply structured

Although a fancy layout is attractive and nice, keep it limited.
The more complex the layout, the higher the risk that other contributers scramble your article.

Don't go extreme on colours and exotic fonts...

Use tables only when really needed, don't box your article with tables.

Kick in swiftly and straightforward

Don't hesitate to start an article when you feel there is a need for it.
If you have information to share, give it a go!

BTW
If you think, for whatever reason, that the article has no reason to exist anymore, you can clean it and mark is as "candidate for deletion".
Or ping the WIki moderator Ninjas directly to remove it.

Keep information shared and social

In one of my recent Wiki blog posts I mentioned the fair use and privacy rights.

Be fair. if you publish copyrighted information, refer to the proper source and make sure it's ok to publish it.
When you publish to the Wiki, be aware that your article can be edited by other contributes.

Keep invisibility simple and sincere

A while Ana Paula devoted an interesting article on "The Principle of Invisibility", see Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility.

"Who" should receive the biggest highlight in an article?
In a Wiki it is article itself and the information it contains.

 "When editing a page, main namespace articles should not be signed, because the article is a shared work, based on the contributions of many people, and one editor should not be singled out above others." (from Wikipedia: Signatures)

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

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

2/23 UPDATE: FINAL WINNER: PowerShell: Running Executables

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For today's Wiki Life, you're going to help us pick which article to feature on the home page of TechNet Wiki!

We've done this in the past, and we're at it again this week!

On the home page of TechNet Wiki, we feature four articles:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/

And, once again, you get to pick the next article!

Simply reply with a comment and let me know which article you want featured. Everybody gets one vote.

Your deadline is 2PM PST, Saturday, 2/23/13.

We'll keep the runner up article from last week, and you get 4 new articles this week!

Here are your five candidates to choose from:

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): How to Set a Popup Window to Open in a New Tab - by Ed

Outlook, Outlook for Mac, and Entourage Version and Features Comparison Chart - by Henrik

PowerShell: Running Executables - by Jrich

SQL Server Samples Readme - by Marianne

WCF Data Services: Overview- by Glenn

Which article do you think we should feature? Leave a comment! One vote per person.

Here's the TechNet Wiki tag of the previously featured Wiki articles. That's basically a list sorted by most recently edited. Or for lists sorted by technology or chronologically when it was featured, read the list at the bottom of the TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees article.

The options were pulled from the list of nominations. Do you want to nominate an article to get featured? Simply add it as a nominee in the Nominees section of the TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees article.

Wiki Wiki, a little bit tricky,

- Ninja Ed

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday.

Like some of you have already noticed when I'm writing the Article Spotlight I have a penchant for articles about Windows Azure (Windows Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Azure FAQ) or books. Today I want to present another great article about a part of Windows Azure: Windows Azure SQL Database. One question I hear often when it comes to the decision which database to use is "For what should we go: SQL Server or Windows Azure SQL Database". Meanwhile with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines this question is not about should someone go with Windows Azure or not. To the contrary this question arises more often since the preview of the virtual machines. Should I use a SQL Server with Windows Azure Virtual Machines or should I use Windows Azure SQL Database?

Because this question is not that easy to answer Dinakar started "Compare SQL Server with Windows Azure SQL Database" nearly two and a half years ago. At this time it was a decision for or against Windows Azure, but the key points for the decisions remain the same. Dinakar and the other contributors shows similarities and differences between these two technologies, for example what you should keep in mind when talking about the logical and physical administration. Worth a look for developers, a must read for database administrators and decision makers.

- German Ninja Jan (Twitter, Blog, Profile)