Hi everyone, and welcome to our "Friday - International Update" post!

As I know that they are some football fans among the wiki ninjas, our famous "Footix" welcomes you today, with the legend: "Hey look right here, they are really good French articles!"

Today I will focus on French wiki articles dedicated to SharePoint, for 2 reasons:

• First, I'm a French guy, and I'm proud to see that the French Community has reached the 5th place in the last Locale Tag Ranking, so I wanted to show you what kind of articles french authors have written, 
• Second, I'm a SharePoint addict, and I couldn't write about something else for my first blog post in this category (You know, SharePoint is a little bit jealous, and I wouldn't not him to be upset when I will apply updates to the next farm :)).

How To Find French Wiki Articles ?

To build the list below, I used Tomoaki Yoshizawa's script : Count of TechNet Wiki Article's Amount for Each Tag.

To view a complete list of French wiki articles related to SharePoint, you can use these links:

• SharePoint (fr-FR)
• SharePoint 2007 (fr-FR)
• SharePoint 2010 (fr-FR)
• SharePoint 2013 (fr-FR)

Who are the Contributors ?

I wanted to thanks all wiki ninjas who write or translate SharePoint Articles in French, here they are:

• Gokan Ozcifci
• Hezequias Vasconcelos - MTFC
• Benoit Jester - MTFC

If someone is missing in the list, please tell me and I will update it.

By the way, you can have a look at the article Guide ultime des articles français du WIKI (fr-FR) to find all French articles on the TechNet Wiki!

Benoît, The French Wiki Niinja

All the votes are in! 

And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, November 2013 !!!!

The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU!

Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts), and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet.

See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.

We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon.

The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category.

The last column is just a few of the comments judges made during the judging process.

In some cases, we have not obtained permission to use the judges names, so they have been reduced to initials.

My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those.

Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.

Any of our judges can exercise their right to veto an article, if they do not feel it meets minimum requirements for a medal.  

When this is the case, we will at least give an indication of the reason, so you understand why.

A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.

BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013

	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics	Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!" TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!" Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
	Suleiman Shakhtour	BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline	Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!" Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
	Tomasso Groenendijk	How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool	Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"

Congratulations to Steef-Jan, Suleiman and Tomasso!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• BizTalk Server: An Easy Way to Get BizTalk Alerts by Suleiman Shakhtour
  Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice addition to the Wiki! The goal and the steps are very clear. I'm bookmarking this one!"
  TGN: "i kinda loved this, although I dont agree on relying on the event log for monitoring. Great blog post and addition to the TechNet Wiki BizTalk space"
  
• Provisioning Windows Azure BizTalk Services - GA by Steef-Jan Wiggers
  TGN: "I was waiting for this, love it Steef-Jan, very valuable for the community!"
  
• BizTalk Server 2010: Fetching ISA and GS Segment Values From Interchange Envelope and Mapping by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
  
• BizTalk Server 2013:How to Configure SFTP Send Port Dynamically by Suleiman Shakhtour
  
• BizTalk Server:Using Global Variable in Mapping by Suleiman Shakhtour
  Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great solution to a common problem. Suleiman - you're on a roll! Thank you for the source code links!"
  

BizTalk Server 2010: How to use SFTP Adapter by Mohit Gupta
This article failed our quality/content bar. Judge comment was "This article needs a lot more work to work better"
 

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to Brandon, Matthew and Benoit!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint 2010: How to add a Deep Zoom to a SharePoint Site by Steven Andrews
  GO: "This is a great way to show how to insert a Deep Zoom image to a SharePoint Site. Clear and Clever. This article can be considered as a guide to a codeplex (Seadragon solution). Before putting this in Production please test in on D or Q environment!"
  Craig Lussier: "Unique article! Great insight into integrating Deep Zoom images within SharePoint."
  TVG: "Nice solution for this specific business requirement... please test CodePlex solutions before installing in production." 
• Create Publishing Pages from XML in Sandbox by Jurgen Wiersema
  GO: "The title is a little bit misleading. It should be Office 365 and not SharePoint 365. It's a well structured artcile but I miss the final touch."
  Craig Lussier: "Nice work and targeted to SharePoint 2013 on premise and SharePoint Online." 
• Sharepoint 2010 :Setting Default value of managed metadata column for a completely new site collection by Nilesh Jain
  GO: "Nice Article, great way to work with Managed Metadata"
  Craig Lussier: "Detailed walk through and good explanations. " 

Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to litdev, Nonki and Joe!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• How to Remove Goto Statements by Nonki Takahashi
  Ed Price: "Great method for structured programming!"

SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to Johnsom, Tim and Michael!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SSRS: Chaining Parameters by Tim Pacl
• MDX CurrentMember and DAX HASONEVALUE by Christian Wade

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013

 
Congratulations to Naomi, Ronen and Saeid!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Query to generate combinations with output unpivoted into individual rows by Kev Riley
  Richard Mueller: "I would prefer more intuitive notation to describe possibilities."
  Samuel Lester: "Great info! Fun project to tackle a problem in the combinatorics / "n choose k" space. I really enjoyed this one!" 
• Hierarchical table sorting with a parent-child relation by Kev Riley
  Richard Mueller: "A better explanation of the problem is needed, or else the solution looks wrong."
  Samuel Lester: "From the comments, it looks like Kev wants to wait to resubmit this article later, so I'm keeping it out of this month's judging. " 

Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013

	Reed Kimble	Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net	Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained." MR: "Great article and well written." SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well" Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
	.paul.	Shapes - Areas + Volumes	SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB." Ed Price: ".paul. earns another Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers." Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code." MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"

Congratulations to Reed and Paul!

 
.paul. - hangMan 
This article failed our quality/content bar. Judge comment was "As an 'article' this doesn't help someone understand concepts and how to go about creating this."

SB: "I like the example but this is purely a code example. A bit of narrative to explain logic or what we are trying to achieve would have made this go to the top."
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. This is a fun one! I also think this deserves to be broken down into code sections with more explanation. "
Richard Mueller: "Good synergy with Gallery. Could use more explanation of how it works."
MR: "Fun app"

Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to Jaliya, Deeptendra and Muralidharan! 
 

Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to mcosmin!

Dave Smits - Checklist for great apps
This article failed our quality/content bar. Judge comment was "Following the suggestions as stated violate accessibility guidelines"

Ed Price: "Some great tips! Carsten has a good suggestion in the comments... to use the Format Code Block tool."
RC: "These are some good ideas (but when overriding colours be sure to respect high contrast!), but are a bit limited and miss many higher profile issues to be a checklist for high quality. "

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013

	dev hedgehog	Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel	Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!" Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
	Magnus (MM8)	WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid	Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation." Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
	Ayyappan	WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework	Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation." Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"

 
Congratulations to dev hedgehog, Magnus and Ayyappan!

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to Uwe and Ronen!

Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013

Congratulations to MrX for another clean sweep, but be warned, Yagmoth555 and Kelly could be giving you some competition!

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• KDC Resource SID Compression by Mr X
  Richard Mueller: "Great information. Very good tables and links."
  GL: "Interesting article, I'd like to know how prevalent Kerberos auth failures are without this. "
  JM: "This is a good article. Tip: define acronyms on first use so that readers know what they mean when reading" 
• How to allow the Delegation of Filtered Properties in Active Directory Users and Computers by Mr X
  JM: "Another excellent article!"
  GL: "Interesting hidden procedure. I wonder how often this is needed but not known."
  Richard Mueller: "Excellent information."
  Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Great topic!"
• How to apply an AD DS Fine-Grained Password Policy on users under an Organizational Unit by Mr X
  JM: "This is an excellent article, nice work."
  JH: "great script, very useful, fills gap in content set"
  GL: "Good article."
  Richard Mueller: "Useful PowerShell snippet."
• Windows 2012 R2: How to Install and Prepare for Active Directory by Yagmoth555
  Ed Price: "Great step-by-step guide with images that clarify each step. Love the Tips sections!"
  Richard Mueller: "Detailed steps with great images. TOC needs more headings."
  JM: "This is very similar to your article on AD installation; might be a good idea to combine these into one article"
  GL: "Good article." 
• Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Best Practices for SharePoint use by Yagmoth555
  JM: "This is a very good article."
  GL: "Good article. This needs a little more context."
  Richard Mueller: "Just what SharePoint users need." 
• Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Installation by Yagmoth555
  JH: "nice screenshots, good flow, useful. mentions tip to use .local which is not a good idea"
  JM: "This is a good article and would benefit if you add instructions on how to deploy these technologies using Windows PowerShell"
  Richard Mueller: "Detailed steps with great images. TOC needs more headings."
  GL: "Good article."
• Active Directory: Ultimate Reading Collection by Kelly Bush
  Richard Mueller: "Great collection of links, very valuable."
  GL: "This is a good list, but not quite comprehensive. The links are very useful though."
  JH: "Extensive set of links, a good reference resource"
  JM: "Great idea for an article and nice work!"

I hope you find the extra comments for the runners up useful, as we get so much useful feedback it seems a shame to waste any.

We are very lucky to have over 30 Microsoft employees and Wiki Council judges helping us with this project, and some real "players" in these technologies, shown above and hiding behind initials, so thank you to the judges for another month's judging and all your comments.

A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to November's competition.

Hopefully we will see you ALL again in December's listings?

If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D

Best regards,
Pete Laker

More about the TechNet Guru Awards:

• TechNet Guru Competitions
• TechNet Guru Contributions for DECEMBER 2013

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Wiki Ninjas Blog: The Contributors

Anyone can join us! Here's how: Wiki Ninjas Blog: How to Become an Author

The names are listed in order of when they completed their first blog post (the dates in parentheses).  

Here are the current authors (chronologically ordered):

1. Ed Price - MSFT (10/30/11)

•  

• RECOGNITION POINTS: 245K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 772

• ARTICLE EDITS: 22K

• WIKI COMMENTS: 8K

• BLOG POSTS: 565

• BLOG COMMENTS: 2,107

• KNOWN FOR: Wiki Ninjas Blogs, Community Council 

• INTERVIEWS: 11/14/11, 12/5/11, 7/30/12, 6/17/13

2. Luiz Henrique Lima Campos - MVP (11/10/11) 

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 44K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 225

• ARTICLE EDITS: 1,375

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,281

• BLOG POSTS: 31

• BLOG COMMENTS: 77

• KNOWN FOR: Portuguese Leader in the International Council, Author on Wiki Ninjas Brasil

• INTERVIEW: 10/15/12

3. Peter Geelen - MSFT (12/6/11)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 18K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 68

• ARTICLE EDITS: 6,851

• WIKI COMMENTS: 309

• BLOG POSTS: 44

• BLOG COMMENTS: 16

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the Wiki Ninjas Twitter account; leading Spam and Plagiarism administration on the Community Council.Peter actually started as an MVP on this blog, and then he later  became a Microsoft FTE (Full-Time Employee).

• INTERVIEW: 12/26/11

                                                

4. Steef-Jan Wiggers - MVP (12/10/11)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 50K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 82

• ARTICLE EDITS: 2,275

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,984

• BLOG POSTS: 53

• BLOG COMMENTS: 196   

• KNOWN FOR: Helping lead the BizTalk community as an MVP, as a member of the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board, and as Wiki Ninja Blog Author. Also won the most BizTalk Guru gold medals in the TechNet Guru competitions!

• INTERVIEWS: 11/7/11, 11/11/13

5. Tord G.Nordahl - MVP (3/26/12)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 14K  

• WIKI ARTICLES: 89

• ARTICLE EDITS: 524

• WIKI COMMENTS: 559

• BLOG POSTS: 30

• BLOG COMMENTS: 136

• KNOWN FOR: Helping lead the BizTalk community as an MVP, as a member of the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board, and as Wiki Ninja Blog Author.

• INTERVIEWS: 4/9/12, 12/1/13

6. Yagmoth555 (3/28/12)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 22K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 83

• ARTICLE EDITS: 1,390

• WIKI COMMENTS: 378

• BLOG POSTS: 17

• BLOG COMMENTS: 91

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the French community on the TechNet Wiki International Council; leading in the area of Portal Growth in the TechNet Wiki Community Council

• INTERVIEWS: 5/29/12, 7/8/13

7. Horizon Net - MVP (3/29/12)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 36K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 196

• ARTICLE EDITS: 1,483

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,051

• BLOG POSTS: 68

• BLOG COMMENTS: 775

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the German community on the TechNet Wiki International Council  Jan is an MVP, and on the Wiki, he champions content around Microsoft certifications.

• INTERVIEW: 4/16/12

8. Margriet Bruggeman - MVP (5/19/12)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 28K 

• WIKI ARTICLES: 81

• ARTICLE EDITS: 915

• WIKI COMMENTS: 828

• BLOG POSTS: 36

• BLOG COMMENTS: 79

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the SharePoint community as an MVP with her SharePoint Best Practices Wiki articles, Gallery scripts, and incredibly clever Wiki Ninja blog posts; She also champions SharePoint Wiki content as a member of the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board, and she helps with the Wiki Ninja Belts award system, as a member of the TechNet Wiki Community Council.

• INTERVIEW: 6/4/12

9. XAML guy -  (10/24/12)

• RECOGNITION POINTS: 36K 

• WIKI ARTICLES: 87

• ARTICLE EDITS: 558

• WIKI COMMENTS: 556

• BLOG POSTS: 79

• BLOG COMMENTS: 173

• KNOWN FOR: Creating the Windows 8 TechNet Wiki app, taking over (and vastly improving) the Weekly Top Contributors Saturday blog posts, founding and leading the TechNet Guru competition (as part of the TechNet Wiki Community Council), including making a fantastic app for the judges and for publishing the award info. Also as part of the Community Council, he helps with leading the Wiki Ninjas blog, the communication/collaboration tools for the council, and he is helping us improve and automate the Wiki Ninja Belts award system.

• INTERVIEWS: 10/22/12, 10/23/12, 10/28/13

10. Gokan Ozcifci - MVP (11/29/12)

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•  RECOGNITION POINTS: 25K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 345

• ARTICLE EDITS: 4,188

• WIKI COMMENTS: 2,405

• BLOG POSTS: 40

• BLOG COMMENTS: 415

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the Turkish community on the TechNet Wiki International Council, including leading the Turkish blog, Turkish forum (for Wiki discussions), and progress for the TAT team to make in content on TechNet Wiki. Gokan is an MVP and is also known for his SharePoint blogs, Gallery scripts, representing SharePoint in the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board, and his work on the TechNet Wiki Community Council, focusing on Community Evangelism (through TechNet Wiki White Papers and TechNet Wiki TV) and TechNet Wiki Featured Articles.

• INTERVIEWS: 11/12/12, 7/8/13

11. Tomoaki Yoshizawa - MVP (1/4/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 13K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 187

• ARTICLE EDITS: 2,046

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,122

• BLOG POSTS: 12

• BLOG COMMENTS: 81

• KNOWN FOR: Leading the Japanese language on the TechNet Wiki International Council, Windows IT Pro MVP, and the author of the Wiki Ninja blog post series, Progress in Each Language (first Friday of each month). Here are the November results.

• INTERVIEW: 4/23/12

12. Craig Lussier (2/24/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 22K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 59

• ARTICLE EDITS: 3,161

• WIKI COMMENTS: 2,411

• BLOG POSTS: 3

• BLOG COMMENTS: 132

• KNOWN FOR: As part of the TechNet Wiki Community Council, leading our efforts to integrate TechNet Wiki with Microsoft User Groups, including a partnership with MSTC. Example blog post.

• INTERVIEW: 1/21/13

13. Markus Vilcinskas - MSFT (4/3/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 25K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 113

• ARTICLE EDITS: 1,218

• WIKI COMMENTS: 8

• BLOG POSTS: 2

• BLOG COMMENTS: 1

• KNOWN FOR: Leadership on FIM content on the TechNet Wiki (and in the forums). As a member of the TechNet Wiki Community Council, he has helped with our efforts to improve code snippets on the Wiki.  

• INTERVIEW: 7/16/12

14. Sandro Pereira - MVP (7/22/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 23K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 51

• ARTICLE EDITS: 2,276

• WIKI COMMENTS: 501

• BLOG POSTS: 4

• BLOG COMMENTS: 47

• KNOWN FOR: Leadership in the BizTalk community, as an MVP on the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board. He helps lead us in our efforts for quality content when migrated from the Forums. 

• INTERVIEW: 2/6/12

15. Santosh Bhandarkar - MVP (7/24/13) 

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 30K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 26

• ARTICLE EDITS: 139

• WIKI COMMENTS: 145

• BLOG POSTS: 5

• BLOG COMMENTS: 179

• KNOWN FOR: Directory Services MVP and member of the TechNet Wiki Advisory Board.                       

• INTERVIEW: 3/24/13

16. Hezequias Vasconcelos (8/28/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 20K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 156

• ARTICLE EDITS: 1,348

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,300

• BLOG POSTS: 38

• BLOG COMMENTS: 272

• KNOWN FOR: Being an author on both the Wiki Ninjas English blog and the Wiki Ninjas Brasil blog. He's a winner of the MTFC award.    

• INTERVIEW: 12/10/12

17. Maheshkumar S Tiwari (10/5/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 8K

• WIKI ARTICLES: 31

• ARTICLE EDITS: 4,329

• WIKI COMMENTS: 3,603

• BLOG POSTS: 11

• BLOG COMMENTS: 87

• KNOWN FOR: Helping champion BizTalk content.    

• INTERVIEW: 9/16/13

18. Naomi N (10/28/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 185K  

• WIKI ARTICLES: 106

• ARTICLE EDITS: 2,999

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,455

• BLOG POSTS: 4

• BLOG COMMENTS: 157

• KNOWN FOR: Winning the most TechNet Guru medals. She is a member of the TechNet Wiki Community Council and has an impressive impact on the TechNet Forums (especially T-SQL)!

• INTERVIEW: 6/10/13

19. Benoit Jester (11/20/13)

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• RECOGNITION POINTS: 3K  

• WIKI ARTICLES: 147

• ARTICLE EDITS: 3,067

• WIKI COMMENTS: 1,046

• BLOG POSTS: 3

• BLOG COMMENTS: 101

• KNOWN FOR: Being a key contributor to the French TNWiki community, winning TechNet Guru medals (in SharePoint), and he recently joined the TechNet Wiki Community Council to help us with the Wiki Ninja Belts award system.

• INTERVIEW: 8/26/13

Hasn't started yet - SathyanarrayananS - MCC

Hasn't started yet  - Durval Ramos 

Hasn't started yet - Matthew Yarlett 

Hasn't started yet - Brent Groom - MSFT

And these are our former authors (they got busy; also in chronological order of when they started):

• TonySoper - MSFT (11/1/11)
• Eric Battalio - MSFT (11/3/11)
• Yuri Diogenes - MSFT (11/4/11)
• Kurt L Hudson - MSFT (11/8/11)
• Bruno Lewin - MSFT (11/18/11)
• Thomas W Shinder - MSFT (11/22/11)
• Monica Rush - MSFT (11/28/11)
• Luigi Bruno - MCC (12/11/11)
• Rich Prescott  - MCC (2/8/12)  
• Luciano Lima - MVP (2/3/12)
• Zoltán Horváth (4/3/12)
• Fernando Lugão Veltem - MVP (4/4/12)
• Ana Paula de Almeida (9/11/12)
• FZB - MCC (9/15/12)
• Serhad Makbuloğlu (3/14/13)
• Patris_70 (7/2/13)
• LeoPonti - MSFT (8/13/13)

Thanks to everyone who helps make this blog so great!

   - NInja Ed

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TechNet Wiki Community Council: Areas of Focus

As of the year 2013, the TechNet Wiki Community Council has 14 members (5 internal Microsoft employees and 9 community members). There are 16 areas of focus, and each member is assigned to a different area of focus each month. The council member leads the community in that area for the month.

What's interesting is that you can go back to the Focus Areas in the previous months, see who was working on what, and when the new areas were added. You can click to go right to those sections:

 And finally, I'll end with showing you what December looked like for the Council...

December 2013 Areas of Focus

1. Guidelines & Best Practices - Peter Geelen (& Ed Price)
   • General Governance Guidelines - Identify issues and disputes
   • Identifying best content and then publishing it as a White Paper series (Gokan)
   • As disputes and issues come up, the council determines what the “rules” should be and evangelizes them out to everyone, making them official
   • For example, we had a community member publish scripts to the Wiki. Then Company #1 used the code (or independently created similar code). Then Company #2 used the code. Later, Company #1 sued Company #2 for using their code (obviously not knowing that Company #2 got the code from the Wiki and likely that Company #1 also got the code from the Wiki).
   • For example, we have a lot of people pasting in Blogs. But the content is very personal. What are the best practices around converting that content for the Wiki?
   • These are behavior-based, but many issues will naturally create Best Practices...
   • Example: We created the concept of the Other Languages section at the bottom of each article. Each language cross-links with the others, so that it’s easy to navigate between the languages. Now we need to spread this through the community a little better.
   • Example: Using the language codes in the titles on the English/regular Wiki, such as including “(es-ES)” in the title of Spanish articles. We need to spread through the community these nuances a little better (such as not to use "(en-US)" in a title).
   • Example: Using title casing rather than sentence casing or inconsistent casing. We need to spread this through the community a little better.
   • Example: Using the same fonts and font sizes (Segoe UI 12). We need to spread this through the community a little better.
   • Example: We currently have articles that use titles like, “About Hyper-V”, “Hyper-V”, “Hyper-V Overview”. Which one is right? Should we be consistent? We need to make a final decision and then spread it through the community.
   • Example: We currently have articles that use titles like, “How Do I Use Hyper-V”, “How to Use Hyper-V”, and “Using Hyper-V”. Which one should we use? The stake in the ground (made with Tony Soper and me) was that “How to Use Hyper-V” was the right one, but it would be better to decide this by the council and have various council members work toward making sure the community implements this practice.
   • We would identify opportunities like these and then work toward spreading them through the community.
2. Portal Growth - Richard Mueller (& Yagmoth, Ed Price, Naomi)
   • Focus: The Adoption and Evangelism of Wiki Portals.
   • One specific best practice that affects navigation is Portal Growth.
   • Are all the right technologies and articles represented on the portals?
   • Do we have the best story for navigation from the portals?
   • Do we need to add more portals?
   • Should we cross-link portals better?
   • Example: We need to update all the portals with links to current content.
   • Example: We need to cross-link the portals better.
3. Cross-Linking Expansion - Richard Mueller (& Naomi N)
   • Focus: The Adoption and Evangelism of Cross-Linking in Wiki articles.
   • Similarly, a key point of navigation for Wikipedia is cross-linking articles. Each article has a link in the first sentence to the main topical article. The paragraph expands more in an overview format, linking to more related articles. At the bottom you have the See Also section.
   • We would expand these best practices and help influence the community to use them.
   • Example: Embedded cross-link to parent topic in the first sentence of an article. We need to add these more and help lead the community to adopt this practice.
   • Example: Building out the See Also sections at the bottom of the articles. We need to add these more and help lead the community to adopt this practice.
4. Feature Requests & Bugs - Ed Price (& Richard Mueller) 
   • The Council will take a look at community-driven requests, evaluate them, and communicate them to the Wiki app team (and then take the information back to the community).
   • The team will evaluate and maintain the following Feature Requests article as a collaboration point with the community: Feature Requests for TechNet and MSDN Profiles and Social Platform Tools
   • #1 Bug - the Activity for Wiki hasn't been updated for 24 days. Example: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Profile/peter%20geelen%20-%20msft/activity
   • Maintain this page: Wiki: Known Issues  
   • A lot of this work is done. It is mostly being maintained while we focus on other areas.
5. Spam, Plagiarism, & Article Deletion - Peter Geelen (& Naomi)
   • Evaluate and delete spam appropriately
   • There are other articles to evaluate whether we should delete them in addition to spam, such as test articles and duplicate articles.
   • We have built some best practices… you rename the title, replace the content with a note about spam, replace the tags with “spam” and “Candidate for deletion”.
   • The council will need to evaluate and delete the spam articles. 
   • Evaluate Spam account removal requests. 
   • This is mostly maintainance now.
6. TechNet Wiki Featured Articles - Ed Price (& Bruno Lewin, Gokan, Yagmoth)
   • Making sure we have a plan and people for featuring articles each week on the homepage of TNWiki
   • Helping refine the plan, process, and future schedule
   • Extend the plan for other languages as well, such as the Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese Wikis
   • To do: We need to update the Chinese and Russian featured articles. This includes several steps of building small teams with those key community members (small teams for each language) to pick the best articles.
   • To do: Build a monthly process of small teams for Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese so that it becomes a self-sustaining system where they submit the featured article updates each month. Since Portuguese is so active, we can rotate two new articles in every two weeks.
   • Ed created this framework: TechNet Wiki: Featured Article Teams 
7. TechNet Guru (Leveraging Forums) - Peter Laker (& Ed Price)
   • Is the Active Directory forum community contributing to the Wiki? What about PowerPivot?
   • Peter Laker launched a hugely expansive effort across forums... TechNet Guru Contributions - May
   • Example: Markus V's work in the FIM.
   • Example: DSForum2Wiki – this was an effort I liked so much that I wrote a blog article to figure out how it got started. Articles (which came from the DS forum). Blog explanation.
   • Example: Small Basic – I held a contest on the Small Basic blog to get some good content started. Then I blog about the resulting articles.
   • So there’s a whole world of possibilities in building and expanding communities around technologies on TechNet Wiki.
   • Example: BizTalk - Steef-Jan blogs about BizTalk + TechNet Wiki about twice a month on Sundays (lots of views). The community includes Sandro, Tord, Steef-Jan (all MVPs), and MS technical writers like Nitin and Mandi
   • We need to get into the individual forums and Microsoft blogs (MSDN/TechNet/Office) and start some Wiki competitions and efforts to migrate forum content to the Wiki.
   • Each forum should have a sticky note at the top with a discussion around adding that technogy's content to TechNet Wiki. Small Basic forum example.
8. Wiki Ninjas Blog Planning - Ed Price (& Peter Laker)
   • Running the quarterly schedules of the Wiki Ninjas blogs
   • Starting new blogs (per language)
   • Running the Wiki Ninjas Announcements blog
   • New contests or competitions (Translation Challenge, TechNet Guru, ...?)
   • Weekly Top Contributors
   • Where do we want to take the blog?
   • How can we make it more interesting or more interactive?
   • What kind of competitions do we want?
   • Inviting people who meet the requirements to become blog authors
   • Manage any authoring requests or changes
9. TechNet Wiki Discussion Forum Community Growth- ?
   • How do we want to integrate the forums?
   • Improve this forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tnwiki/threads 
   • For example, the Small Basic community uses the forums for community driven contests and discussions around games they built. We could have a lot more of those discussions about Wiki content, content ideas, best practices, and community projects (like events or contests).
   • For example, the Portuguese community uses their Portuguese TechNet Wiki Forum to collaborate their efforts and goals better.
   • How can we integrate the Wiki Blog, Wiki Forum, and Wiki together better to increase community planning?
   • Example: Forum management... Evaluating Forum Moderation needs and adding/removing Moderators, Building Forum Moderation Best Practices, and Adding Sticky Posts and Announcements
10. Community Evangelism and Social Initiatives - Gokan (& Peter Geelen)
    • All Non-Blog efforts
    • Such as contests/competitions, events, and efforts.
    • Determining strategies around other social tools, such as Twitter (Peter Geelen owns) and Facebook.
    • TechNet TV (Gokan)
    • TechNet Wiki White Papers (Gokan)
    • Spurring each other on to proactively get involved with contests, events, and community interactions
    • Example: Social Media explorations... Should there be a Facebook page?
    • Example: Should there be any updates to the Wiki Ninjas Twitter account? Should we add authors?
    • The Microsoft Answer Community started to create Wiki pages on their platforms. On the TNWiki there is page done for consumer product (a grey line there) Can both communities help each other? (I had this discussion some time ago with Jennifer-P: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/feedback/forum/fdbk_commsite-suggest/now-seeking-wiki-authors/611bd41c-a816-4084-909b-9c9e7e90b7be?page=2 ) 
11. TechNet Wiki International Council - Bruno Lewin (& Ed Price)
    • We created an article about the steps to getting your language established as a Wiki instance: Wiki: How to Get a New Language Started or Expanded on TechNet Wiki
    • We invited the initial members to join the council. private Forum in place.
    • We created an article that explains the council and lists the members: TechNet Wiki International Council
    • We have a French Forum to test effectiveness of language specific Wiki Forums. Bruno/Yagmoth need to figure roll out plan.
    • Next step: kick-off, establish communication channels, get input on what areas members want to work on [ETA week of 8/26]  
12. TechNet Wiki Advisory Board - Ed Price  
    • Resurrect and grow the board: TechNet Wiki Advisory Board
    • This was re-launched.
    • The Advisory Board would exist to give feedback and advice on Wiki related articles, ideas, and activities.
    • It also exists so that the MVPs own their area of content.
    • Seek to fill it with MVPs only.
    • And then the monthly task is to keep it alive and kicking; to be the liaison between the Advisory Board and the Community Council and to also gather requests and topics from the Microsoft Technical Writers.
    • Next step: Add communication tools
13. Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings - Benoit Jester (& Craig Lussier, Ed Price, Margriet Bruggeman)
    • Work to execute on this idea (a TechNet Wiki reward program): Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings
    • Done: Fill out the descriptions with short and creative/fun bits about how great each rank is. Try to tie it into the requirements if possible.
    • Done: Refine titles, order of ranks, and requirements. I think more requirements can be added. Refine the weight of the requirements.
    • Doing: Identify all the rewards with dependencies. Work to create solutions/processes around those dependencies.
      • For example, one reward is to make a Wiki Ninja statue. Kurt Hudson has made some of those. See if he would be willing to make them. Identify how many people would "win" those statues. Is it too much for him? Is there a backup plan or alternative prize?
      • For example, it would be great to have one reward be that our profile lists our rank. Well, that's maybe a year's worth of meetings and jumping in hoops to get that to happen. So work must be done!
      • For example, one reward is to get an article featured in TechNet Magazine. We need stakeholder buyoff and participation from the TechNet Magazine team to make that happen.
    • Done: Work with Peter Laker to tie in the rank Requirements with his weekly TechNet Wiki Top Contributors awards.
      • For example, one requirement might be that you need the "Longest Article" award from his blog post on one of your articles.
    • Doing: After the Wiki Ninja Belt program is perfected, then it needs to be rolled out with regular blog posts announcing the progress, winners, and prizes. So we need a structure/system around announcing that. I suggest that we move toward Thursdays being a permanent day for the Wiki Ninja Belts. The Community Win idea was great, but it's become less about community stories (which are great), and more about a combination between Tuesday (feature an article) and Wednesday (feature something about Wiki best practices and solutions). So Thursdays could become a Wiki Ninja Ceremony day instead (which is actually a good transition from Community Win, since the Belt awards are community wins). So the bloggers would basically report out on a Wiki article (or two), which is tracking who wins what.
    • Done: Create a Wiki article that tracks how people are progressing through the Wiki Ninja ranks.  
14. Collaborating with Microsoft Field Representatives - Brent Groom
    • To leverage their content and customer interactions on TechNet Wiki.
    • First Brent is working to get TechNet Wiki involved in the Field Representatives' existing community initiatives.
15. Leveraging User Groups - Craig Lussier (& Ed Price)
    • To leverage user groups as pockets of communities (focused on individual products) who can work together on TechNet Wiki content creation and evangelism.
    • This includes a partnership with MSTC to use the Wiki to advertise MSTC and then use MSTC to help funnel user groups to using TehcNet Wiki.
    • Also will use TechNet Wiki as the home of content related to User Group info and best practices.
16. Tag Navigation - Craig Lussier

• Craig is developing an Azure web application to make it easier to filter across multiple tags and access the results.

Thanks to all our council members!

   - Ninja Ed

First, go learn about the TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge here (if you haven't yet):

The 2013 TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge!!! BATTLE TIME!!! Who will win? Portuguese, Turkish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Farsi, Chinese, or Vietnamese?

This contest lasts from November 30, 2013 to January 12th, 2014 (6 weeks).

All the tags are listed here: Wiki: Translation Tags 

I wrote this article for you to follow the directions when you translate articles: Wiki: How to Translate TechNet Wiki Articles 

Hezequias joins the battle with two languages... French and Portuguese!

You can follow the list of articles translated for this challenge here:

TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge: November 2013 to January 2014 

So how are the languages doing now? 

1. Portuguese - 73 articles

• Durval - 72
• Hezequias - 1

2. French - 48 articles

• Benoit - 41
• Hezequias - 6
• Yagmoth - 1

   

3. German - 27 articles
 

• Thanks to Carsten!
  
  

4. Japanese - 5 articles

• Thanks to Tomoaki!
  
  

5. Italian - 2 articles

• Thanks to Luigi and Carmelo!
   

6. Russian - 1 article

• Thanks to Dmitri!
  
  

Go community go!

   - Ninja Ed