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

Firstly, the usual weekly leader board snapshot...

Yey for Ed to jump to the top this week! And hello Asil, leading new articles over the last month!

As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Microsofty Ed Price - MSFT is the main man this week, with 115 revisions over 64 articles!

Richard Mueller roars into second, with  94 revisions over 53 articles! Wow!

Naomi  N jumps into the leader board at third, with 79 revisions over 25 articles.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Same order for this category.

#1 Ed Price - MSFT with 64 articles!

#2 Richard Mueller with 53 articles!

#3 Naomi  N with 25 articles.

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

The article to have the most change this week was New Forums Design: Suggestions, Impressions, Ideas by Naomi  N, an excellent collection of suggestions and vote links for the forum re-redesign. Thanks for all your hard work Naomi.

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is Active Directory: Get-QADUser Properties & Get-QADUser Full Help, by i.biswajith although this looks like it's been copied directly from another source, as the text matches this document : ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory, in which case the sources need to be attributed/linked.

Therefore I'll mention second largest document to get tweaked, this week by Carsten Siemens, the awesome Creating a Custom Shape for Visio Management Pack Designer by Brian Wren, an invaluable read for creating your own monitoring shapes to implement different scenarios.

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

This week's most fiddled with article is as above, New Forums Design: Suggestions, Impressions, Ideas by Naomi  N. Seven people have contributed to it this week so far, and it should be quite a good one to follow.

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

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was to Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal by Luigi Bruno. Ed Price - MSFT added a link to How to Nominate a TechNet Wiki Article to Be Featured on the Home Page of TechNet Wiki, also worth a read - see if you can spot the hidden message :D 

You're awesome! Wiki-away!

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Welcome to the Monday Interview with a Wiki Ninja! Today's Wiki Ninja is...

Osman Shener Profile

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

I live in Cambridge, UK and work for CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) as a Senior IS Engineer. My MVP expertise area is SPD&S (Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing). I do and support internal IS projects, support internal customers and our IS teams worldwide. Although I’m somewhat of a generalist, at the moment I work on MS System Centre family, Security/Network, Setup/Deployment and MS SQL products in majority.

Turkish : Cambridge – Ingiltere’de yaşıyorum ve CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) firmasında Kıdemli Bilgi Sistemleri Mühendisi olarak calışıyorum. MVP ünvan alanım SPD&S (Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing). Firma içi projeler yapmakta, diğer projelere, iç müşterilere ve Dünya çapında dağınık olan diğer bilgi sistemleri takımlarımiza destek vermekteyim. Bir çok teknoloji ve konuda bilgi ve deneyimim olmakla beraber, şu anda ağırlıklı olarak MS System Centre family, Security/Network, Setup/Deployment ve MS SQL ürünleri ile daha çok calışmaktayım.

What are your big projects right now?

Currently I am working on a setup and deployment project to implement an infrastructure for our global OS migration and deployment project. I use SCCM, MDT, DB, scripting and some other related technologies to create automated, customized and centrally managed deployment system that can be used globally and meet localization requirements of our remote offices as well.

I am studying ICT Degree at university and preparing content for Microsoft Virtual Academy. I am also planning to upgrade my MCITP certification to re-born MCSE.

Turkish : Şu anda tüm firma genelinde kullanılacak olan global işletim sistemi yayma ve yükseltme projesi üzerine çalışıyorum. Projede SCCM, MDT, DB, kodlama ve diğer konu ile ilgili teknolojileri kullanarak, kullanıcı müdahelesi gerektirmeyen, merkezi olarak yönetilebilen ve uzak ofislerdeki farklı dil ihtiyaçlarını karşılayacak bir sistem kurmaktayım.

Bilgi ve İletişim Teknolojileri alanında lisans eğitimime devam etmekte, Microsoft Virtual Academy için içerik hazırlamakta ve MCITP sertifikasyonumu yeniden doğan MCSE’e yükseltmeyi planlamaktayım.

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

I am one of the admins of SiteBuilders.org, which can be the oldest and still popular mail-list based group in Turkey, mainly used to get help about Microsoft products and IT issues. Occasionally we organize free seminars for our members or events to meet and socialize. I am also moderating a few MS TechNet Forums in Turkish. I have a personal blog that I blog generally how-to’s when I experience a problem and can’t find the adequate or direct answer on the internet.

Turkish: SiteBuilders.org adında mail listesi tabanlı bir kullanıcı topluluğunun yöneticilerinden biriyim, Türkiye’deki en eskilerden ve aynı zamanda halen popüler olan grup genelde Microsoft ürünleri ve genel bilişim teknolikileri alanında yardım arayanlar tarafından kullanılmakta. Zaman zaman üyelerimize ücretsiz seminerler düzenlemekte veya buluşmalar organize edilmektedir. Ayrica MS Tehnet forumlarında bir kaç forumun moderatörlüğünüde yapmaktayım. Kişisel blogumda ise genelde tatmin edici cevap bulamadığım sorunlarla ilgili nasıl yapılır yaziları yazmaktayım.

What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

It’s a great and living technical resource for everybody, so anybody can join and help to make it bigger, better and more useful.

Turkish : TechNet Wiki herkesin kulanımına açık çok büyük ve yaşayan bir kaynak; isteyen herkes katkıda bulunabilir ve onun daha kapsamlı ve faydalı olmasına katkı sağlayabilir.

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

It’s a great resource for me to look when I need, as articles go beyond the standard technical descriptions by reflecting knowledge and experiences of other users.

Turkish: İhtiyacım olduğunda çok faydalı bir kaynak sayarak başvurmaktayım, çünkü diğer meslektaşlarımın bilgi ve deneyimlerinide içerdiğinden normal teknik dokumanların ötesinde kullanışlı bir kaynak.

What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

Wiki topics are like living organism so they enhance by time and provide more in-depth and practical information. I love to idea of seeing growing articles and being surprised when I re-visit an article.

Turkish: Wikiler canlı organizmalar gibi, zamanla gelişmekte, daha detaylı ve aynı zamanda pratik bilgiler sunmakta. Bir yazıyı tekrar ziyaret ettiğimde onun zamanla ne kadar değiştigini ve geliştiğini görüp şaşırmak güzel.

What are your favourite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

My favourite is the one about NetBootGUIDs, it provides very simple but not easily locatable and tested how-to information about cleaning pre-staging properties from computer objects. I have written it to solve specific deployment problems when WDS used to create computer accounts.

Turkish : Favorim NetBootGUID hakkında olan diyebilirim, cok basit ancak kolay bulunamayan bir nasıl yapılır bilgisi içermekte AD’de WDS tarafından yaratılmıs bilgisayar objelerinde bulunan bu değeri temizlemek icin, bununla ilgili bir sorun yasadığımda araştırmış ve yazmıştım.

What are your top 5 favourite Wiki articles?

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Best Practices

SQL Server Performance Survival Guide

System Center 2012 Integration Guide - Operations Manager

Windows PowerShell Survival Guide

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

Not someone, everyone in the Wiki impressed me! Knowledge grows when shared.

Turkish: Birisi değil, herkes etkiledi. Bilgi paylaştıkça çoğalır.

What does success look like for TechNet Wiki?

Becoming one of the most respected and visited authoritative resource for technical contents will be the success.

Turkish: TecnNet Wiki’nin saygı gören ve çok başvurulan referans bir kaynak hale gelmesi başarısı olacaktır.

Thank you Osman, for the interview and for your great contributions to the Turkish community on TechNet Wiki!

Turkish Ninja Serhad

Blog: http://serhadmakbuloglu.com/

Twitter: @smakbuloglu

Congratulations to Sachin S, our C# Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013.

Sachin S took the gold, with this contribution:

Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript) 

Here are our three winners for May:

Visual C# Technical Guru - May 2013

Here are excerpts from the article:

Description

It implements the component wrapper over Win32 SpellChecker library. A wrapper that it can be easily used by caller of Windows Store App irrespective of Application Language and without worrying about C++ and COM intricacies.

 
Spell checking client sample (C++) 
 

Also it needs to have spell checker provider installed. See the below link for more details

Spell checking provider sample

Internals

The functionality to check spellings is exposed by the ISpellCheckerFactory and ISpellChecker interface.

ISpellCheckerFactory : public IUnknown
    {
    public:
        virtual /* [propget] */ HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE get_SupportedLanguages( 
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt IEnumString **value) = 0;
        
        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IsSupported( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__out BOOL *value) = 0;
        
        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE CreateSpellChecker( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt ISpellChecker **value) = 0;
        
    };

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Read the entire article here:

Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript)

Thanks again to Sachin S for a great contribution! You can read about all the May winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - May 2013

See the June contributions here: TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013

Come on in, the Wiki is fantasmic!

   - Ninja Ed

UPDATE: We have a winner! SharePoint 2010: Adding Charts to Standard Webparts and Visual Webparts - by Matthew. This article was featured on the home page of TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/

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Today, you get to help us decide which May TechNet Guru we should feature next on the home page of TechNet Wiki! See all the winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - May 2013

We've done this in the past (had you pick the featured article), 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/

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

Your deadline is 2PM PST, Friday, 6/21/13.

Here are your five candidates to choose from:

SharePoint 2010: Adding Charts to Standard Webparts and Visual Webparts - by Matthew

T-SQL: Dynamic Pivot on Multiple Columns - by Naomi

SQL Server PIVOT - by Naomi

C#: Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript) - by Sachin

Retreiving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator - by Isenthil

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.

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.

Remember to Wiki while you work (or after work).

   - Ninja Ed

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

Firstly, the usual weekly leader board snapshot...

Ed taking top spot for a second week! Hello Abhishek.Sur, leading most new articles for the last month!

As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Ed Price - MSFT is the top dog again, with 169 revisions over 60 articles!

Richard Mueller remains in second, with  113 revisions over 96 articles!

Kris Bash arrives to the leader board in third, with 89 revisions over 17 articles.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Slightly different this week from above:

#1 Richard Mueller with 96 articles!

#2 Ed Price - MSFT with 60 articles!

#3 Fernando Lugão Veltem  with 42 articles.

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

The article to have the most change this week was a new contribution called Hybrid IT Infrastructure Design Considerations for Enterprise IT by Thomas W Shinder - MSFT. This is an excellent and detailed introduction to the world of cloud computing. In fact I spent so long reading through the articles indexed here that I was too tired last night to finish this blog, sorry about that :/

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is another new arrival, SCOM 2012: UNIX/Linux Authoring Library MP Reference - Unit Monitor Types by Kris Bash. This is one of a series of new articles Kris has added this week, detailing how to integrate common UNIX and Linux monitoring scenarios for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, indexed here. Great work Kris!

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

This week's most fiddled with article is as above, Hybrid IT Infrastructure Design Considerations for Enterprise IT by Thomas W Shinder - MSFT. These sensational new "cloud" arrivals had me riveted to my seat for several hours last night. Deeply love this work, thank you to everyone involved.

As it was previously mentioned, I'll also highlight second most fiddled with: Compatible Tape Libraries for System Center 2012 DPM by Rayne Wiselman [MSFT], more System Center documentation, gratefully received. If any of you follow trends, System Center really seems to be one we need to stay up with.

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

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was to Wiki: How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki by tonysoper_MSFT. Our old friend yottun8 simply corrected a few typos, but this is a valuable job that shows people really care, and we thank you yottun8 for your continued support.

Thanks again for another VERY busy week at TechNet Wiki

Best regards,
Pete Laker