Are you a community lead or SME and are you looking for ways to energize your community? Maybe you are new to a leadership role, or maybe you want to take the community to the next level. Do you consume and/or publish TechNet Wiki articles or blog posts? If not, one of the best ways to lead is by example.

Some things you may not know about the TechNet Wiki

There are thousands of articles on the TechNet Wiki and each month, the TechNet Wiki Ninjas compile a list of the top wiki articles. The best articles are published in a Guru Awards blog post. Quickly review the two previous links and you'll see that the worldwide TechNet Wiki community is very active and there are experts across many categories.

Five ways to foster community contributions:

• Include a link and/or content from the monthly Guru Awards blog post in a recurring newsletter

• Recognize community members that received a Guru Award or honorable mention.

• Provide judges to assist with an existing Guru Awards category, or if there is not a category specific to your community, create a new category for the Guru Awards.

• Encourage community members to publish articles (Ed Price has written some excellent articles about using the TechNet Wiki. These articles also provide ample content to include in newsletters)

• Create a public facing blog for your internal community. Then, manage an authoring schedule with publishing assignments. See an example here. This is an excellent route to unite internal communities with external experts and MVPs.

Looking for some more ideas? Read my last blog post.

Hello community!!
How's everything? Today is Friday with International Community Update.

The end of March is as follows:

The topic of this month:

• 3rd largest amount of contribution in this month is French! This is the first time.
• German almost caught up with Japanese. Indonesian is also approaching.
• Danish contributed some articles for the first time in two and a half years.

That's the end of the report for this month.

I have a news. I became a Microsoft MVP (Windows Expert-IT Pro) for another year. Thank you. TechNet Wiki made it happen!!
How to become an MVP? Please see "How to Become an MVP or MCC".

Tomoaki Yoshizawa (yottun8)
TechNet Profile : Tomoaki Yoshizawa
twitter : @yottun8

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

It is over! Build 2014 is over! Last week the Build Conference in San Francisco has hit us like a hurricane. A lot of new stuff, especially if you are working with Windows Azure. But, instead of covering one of the new things in our Article Spotlight I want to do something different (and give you some time to revive and to write awesome articles about the new stuff).

Like you already know we publish an Article Spotlight every Tuesday. Every Tuesday we show you some articles we think you should be aware of. But how can you see what articles we have covered in the past? Thanks to Durval Ramos you have now a list with all the articles we featured in the past - the Article Spotlight overview.

Hope you enjoy this overview! And here is my call to action for you: look at the articles listed in the overview and (in the comments to this post) let me know what your favorite Article Spotlight of all time is!

- German Ninja Jan (Twitter, Blog, Profile)

Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (a day late, due to real life commitments, sorry)

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

Fernando exploding out in front this week, hats off to him!

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

#1 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 321 revisions.

#2 Ed Price - MSFT with 40 revisions.

#3 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 30 revisions.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
 

#4 Shanky_621 with 23 revisions.

#5 pituach with 19 revisions.

#6 Richard Mueller with 16 revisions.

#7 Markus Vilcinskas with 14 revisions.

#8 Carsten Siemens with 12 revisions.

#9 .paul. _ with 12 revisions.

#10 Denis Dyagilev with 12 revisions.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

#1 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 259 articles.

#2 Ed Price - MSFT with 25 articles.

#3 Richard Mueller with 10 articles.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
 

#4 Carsten Siemens with 10 articles.

#5 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 8 articles.

#6 Shanky_621 with 6 articles.

#7 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 6 articles.

#8 Naomi N with 5 articles.

#9 Denis Dyagilev with 4 articles.

#10 Solenoid with 3 articles.

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

The article to have the most change this week was Actualizando a Nokia Lumia Black Solo para Windows Phone 8, by Pedro dorian

This week's reviser was Pedro dorian

This new article from Pedro Dorian is a Spanish translation of the new features that the Nokia Black update brings to our beloved Windows Phone. Thanks for this Pedro, I didn't realise there were so many cool new features! 

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is Windows Azure Pack (#WAPack) and Related Blogs, Videos and TechNet Articles, by Hans Vredevoort - Hyper-V MVP

This week's reviser was Hans Vredevoort - Hyper-V MVP

Continuing to lead the pack, when it comes to Azure Pack documentation, Hans has enhanced his already awesome tome of knowledge with update with links to new blogs and videos on WAP, SMA, DSC, HNV. 

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

This week's most fiddled with article is Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule , by Ed Price - MSFT. It was revised 26 times last week.

This week's revisers were Maheshkumar S Tiwari, Bruno Lewin - MSFT, Ed Price - MSFT, Hezequias Vasconcelos, Benoit Jester - MTFC, Sandro Pereira, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Gokan Ozcifci, Durval Ramos, SathyanarrayananS, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Horizon_Net, Margriet Bruggeman, Matthew Yarlett, Yagmoth555 & Alan Nascimento Carlos

Hooray for another season of bloggers' slots! This Spring and Summer will be crammed with more goodies and interviews across the community, so please keep us bookmarked!As you can see, our army of authors will be keeping you amused and enlightened on almost a daily basis, and sometimes twice a day! 

Worth therefore mentioning the second most fiddled with article this week, Project Siena: Creating a WADL Configuration File, by Manpratap Suri - Microsoft. It was revised 20 times last week.

This week's revisers were Ben Hodes & Manpratap Suri - Microsoft

This is a fascinating series I'm glad I stumbled upon whilst creating this weekly summary, and will be following with great interest! Project Siena is about "making consuming services as easy as an Excel function" and it looks like they are well on the way to achieving this. One to watch!

Most Popular Article Award   Collaboration is the name of the game!

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule , by Ed Price - MSFT

This week's revisers were Maheshkumar S Tiwari, Bruno Lewin - MSFT, Ed Price - MSFT, Hezequias Vasconcelos, Benoit Jester - MTFC, Sandro Pereira, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Gokan Ozcifci, Durval Ramos, SathyanarrayananS, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Horizon_Net, Margriet Bruggeman, Matthew Yarlett, Yagmoth555 & Alan Nascimento Carlos

A great start to the schedule, thanks to all our bloggers of course, and looking forward to some more amazing blogs. 

The article to be updated by the second  most people this week is TechNet Guru Contributions for March, by XAML guy (me)

This week's revisers were Shanky_621, XAML guy, Naomi N, Magnus (MM8), Eihab Isaac, Mr X, Micah Rowland - Xtreme Consulting, Durval Ramos, Jayakumaur (JK), Praveen Rayan D'sa & pituach

A mad cram for the end of March. Articles are now with the judges, and we hope to get a result to you by mid April. 

The article to be updated by the most people this week is TechNet Guru Contributions for April 2014, by XAML guy (me :)

This week's revisers were pituach, .paul. _, Jesper Arnecke, Steven Andrews, XAML guy & Visakh16

Of course April's competition now kicks in, and already we have some great entries! We're all really excited to see such great contributions, month after month. We are building a great liost of community big hitters. 

Ninja Edit Award   A ninja needs lightning fast reactions!

Below is a list of this week's fastest ninja edits. That's an edit to an article after another person

• Revision 25 of TechNet Guru Contributions - SQL Server Database Engine was saved by Naomi N just 3 minutes after Shanky_621
• Revision 1 of Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server was saved by Fernando Lugão Veltem just 3 minutes after Jayakumaur (JK)

  Congratulations to the pair of you!
  Also in the top 10:

• Revision 80 of TechNet Guru Contributions for March was saved by Eihab Isaac just 4 minutes after Mr X
• Revision 84 of TechNet Guru Contributions for March was saved by XAML guy (yes me again!) just 4 minutes after Naomi N
• Revision 3 of How to Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attributes Side by Side was saved by Fernando Lugão Veltem just 4 minutes after Micah Rowland - Xtreme Consulting
• Revision 341 of Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule was saved by Steef-Jan Wiggers just 5 minutes after Horizon_Net
• Revision 4 of How to Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attributes Side by Side was saved by Micah Rowland - Xtreme Consulting just 6 minutes after Fernando Lugão Veltem
• Revision 340 of Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule was saved by Horizon_Net just 7 minutes after Margriet Bruggeman
• Revision 338 of Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule was saved by Matthew Yarlett just 11 minutes after Yagmoth555
• Revision 3 of Split Date Range into Months was saved by pituach just 12 minutes after Shanky_621

Another sensational week of awesome contributions!

Thank you to everyone again for giving us so much bedtime reading material and long term technical references!

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Hello WikiNinjas,

Today I want to share the famous videos that we presented at the WikiNinjas Web Days presented by the Turkish Avengers Team.

The content is only Wiki Articles related and we tried to evangelize the Wiki on a different way. I’m a proud man because after a marathon of 6 hours we finally finished our first TechNet WikiNinjas Web Days 2014. The Turkish WikiNinjas provided 6 hours of NON-STOP IT PRO sessions. Many sessions between level 100 (Keynote) to 400 (failover clustering).

We had almost 40 online attendees from several countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan and Deutschland. Please find the PowerPoint Presentation that I used at the Online Event.

Have a nice watch !  

Gokan Ozcifci(MVP)

Ugur Demir

Mehmet Parlakyigit & Recep Yuksel

Asil Mutlu & Davut EREN

Yavuz Tasci & Hasan Dimdik

Elguc Yusifbeyli

- Turkish Ninja Gokan