• Friday with International Community Update – Progress in each language (Oct. 2014)

    Hello Community!
    Today is Friday with International Community Update.

    The end of October is as follows:

    The topic of this month:

    • Articles of Simplified Chinese increased rapidly!! Their order was raised up from 15th to 8th by them.
    • The performance of Saudi Arabia is amazing, too.
    • Contributions from 16 locales are the first time in 7 months.

    100 Over in a Month

    Chinese contributed large number of posts in this month, so I checked the locale that contributed higher than 100 articles in a month.

    The top is Turkish!! Portuguese has a long and a rich history. This month Chinese went into 5th place. The effort of Spanish is very impressive.

    Thank you!!


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

  • Top Contributors Awards! Migration overviews, how to pinpoint your position, all-in-one values and... THE TOC...!!

    Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Congratulations to Peter for topping the charts this week with some valuable work.

    WindowsPhoneContent to dominate the new articles chart for the next week, so congrats to Erdem also for most articles.

     

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

     

    Ninja Award Most Revisions Award  
    Who has made the most individual revisions
     

     

    #1 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 91 revisions.

      

    #2 Erdem SELÇUK - TAT with 28 revisions.

      

    #3 Ashwin Menon with 24 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Richard Mueller with 22 revisions.

      

    #5 Nonki Takahashi with 20 revisions.

      

    #6 Hasan Dimdik - TAT with 16 revisions.

      

    #7 - Sergio Figueiredo with 15 revisions.

      

    #8 Shanky_621 with 13 revisions.

      

    #9 Chervine with 12 revisions.

      

    #10 Emre Göztürkk with 9 revisions.

      

     

    Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award  
    Who has updated the most articles
     

     

    #1 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 34 articles.

      

    #2 Richard Mueller with 16 articles.

      

    #3 Ashwin Menon with 13 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 - Sergio Figueiredo with 12 articles.

      

    #5 Erdem SELÇUK - TAT with 11 articles.

      

    #6 Nonki Takahashi with 9 articles.

      

    #7 Durval Ramos with 6 articles.

      

    #8 Chervine with 5 articles.

      

    #9 Shanky_621 with 4 articles.

      

    #10 Hasan Dimdik - TAT with 4 articles.

      

     

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

     

    The article to have the most change this week was Wiki: Makalelerinize Otomatik olarak Table of Contents (TOC) Etiketi Ekleme (tr-TR), by Erdem SELÇUK - TAT

    This week's revisers were Peter Geelen - MSFT & Erdem SELÇUK - TAT

    Most change because it's all new from Erdem, nice work too. Definitely a Turkish delight!

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week
     

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is Windows Phone Migrated Content Overview, by Peter Geelen - MSFT

    This week's reviser was Peter Geelen - MSFT

    A summary/portal page for all the articles copied in from the old Nokia Windows Phone wiki. Peter has collated the results of a tag search into one page.

     

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is Getting longitude, latitude using geolocation API in C# code, by Joon84. It was revised 13 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Chervine, Ashwin Menon, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Erdem SELÇUK - TAT & Joon84

    Top tip of the week, love this article. Thanks Joon84!

     

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

     

    The article to be updated by the most people this week is SQL Server: Representing List of Values Using a Single Value, by pituach

    Such a cool article that everyone wants to help buff it to perfection! Great work Pituach!

    This week's revisers were pituach, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Jan Pieter Posthuma & Shanky_621

     

    Ninja Award 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

     

    Ninja Award Winner Summary  
    Let's celebrate our winners!
     

     

    Below are a few statistics on this week's award winners.

    These stats are a few weeks out of date, we hope to have them updated in the next week or two.



    Most Revisions Award Winner
    The reviser is the winner of this category.

    Peter Geelen - MSFT

    Peter Geelen - MSFT has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

    Peter Geelen - MSFT has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    Peter Geelen - MSFT has won 32 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

    Peter Geelen - MSFT has not yet had any TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Peter Geelen - MSFT's profile page



    Most Articles Award Winner
    The reviser is the winner of this category.

    Peter Geelen - MSFT

    Peter Geelen - MSFT is mentioned above.



    Most Updated Article Award Winner
    The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes.

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards:

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT's profile page



    Longest Article Award Winner
    The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long!

    Peter Geelen - MSFT

    Peter Geelen - MSFT is mentioned above.



    Most Revised Article Winner
    The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most

    Joon84

    This is the first Top Contributors award for Joon84 on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Joon84!

    Joon84 has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Joon84's profile page



    Most Popular Article Winner
    The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention.

    pituach

    pituach has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

    pituach has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    pituach has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

    pituach has won 5 previous Top Contributor Awards:

    pituach's profile page



    Ninja Edit Award Winner
    The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest!

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT

    Erdem SELÇUK - TAT is mentioned above.



    Another sensational week all round the wiki! See you again next week!

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker (XAML guy)

     

  • Interview with a Wiki Ninja and Hyper-V expert - Yahya Zahedi

    Welcome to another interview day! Today we are going to interview Yahya. He is the last MTPC award winner, so you know him a little. Let's have a look at his TechNet profile:

    He has more than 40 articles in TN which most of them are about virtualization and hyper-v technologies. This is his article which won the award. Let's get to the interview!

    Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?
    I am Yahya Zahedi Fard (LinkedIn) form Iran living in Tehran. I’m 25 years old and live alone.
    I’m student in IT (Network Computers) at SRBIAU in Tehran.
    I work for Bahan Gostar Engineering Company as IT administrator. In this situation I just do normal jobs (Not virtualization, do jobs other IT admins do in small companies)
    My focus is Virtualization specially Hyper-V.

    What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?
    TechNet Wiki is for everyone who wants to learn. Every one wants to learn Microsoft technologies!
    There is no difference that you are starter or an IT pro .You have lots of article about everything that you want about Microsoft products .Everyone can share their information and experiences.

    What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?
    I write articles and read lots of them. In my job, usually I have approximately 3 to 5 hours of free time a day, so I read wiki or write wiki (Payman: this is what I loved about his interview! He uses Wiki instead of article.), but for now because I’m so busy, I can’t write articles but as soon possible I will start to Wiki again!

    What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?
    Every one, with minimum experience (such as Me) can write Wiki and then thousands of people could see it and if there is a problem, they could warn you or even correct it by themselves.
    You enjoy that Microsoft respects your language, now it’s time to say thank you to Microsoft because of Persian Support in wiki and blog.

    On what articles have you collaborated with other community members on #TNWiki? What was that experience like?
    At first, I connected to Patris and he help me a lot (how to write wiki, how to correct my errors and so on). After that on hyper-v articles I connected to Payman Biukaghazadeh.

    On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?
    On Hyper-V Articles I spent approximately 6 months, because I was in the learning stage and then wrote articles and then tested them in my lab, and finally when they was OK I published it.

    What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?
    Full Persian reference for Hyper-V


    Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?
    Patris, because he learned me there is Wiki and there is a big world on Net to publish my articles.
    I would especially like to thank Omid Koushki & Payman Biukaghazadeh.


    What does success look like for TechNet Wiki?
    TechNet wiki is for all of International languages. But in some language such as Turkish, Spanish, French, Persian and … you have some great wiki in their own languages. So everyone with their own language can use it . (if your Language does not have any wiki, you become the first person that publish TechNet wiki in your language )

    Congratulations to Yahya for his great contributions in Persian!

    BTW, we could use Yahya's terminology about wiki. What is your idea? ;-)

     

    Wiki (wiki, wikied, wikied)

    verb

    • To write a TechNet Wiki article; widely used in first decades of 21th century in Microsoft communities. Example: I wikied about BizTalk!
    • To contribute to a TechNet Wiki articles

    Ninja Payman

  • TNWiki Article Spotlight - SQL Server 2014 News

    Hello,

    This is my first English blog entry so please forgive me if there are errors.

    I will talk about a very nice Turkish article about SQL Server 2014 enhancements. I saw this article while looking for something related to SQL Server and I wanted to share it with you.

    The article has been written by Abdullah KISE with high quality pictures. I thought you will enjoy reading this article.

    Pleasant reading.

    SQL Server 2014 News Hybrid Cloud Features
    SQL Server 2014 Yenilikleri - 1 (Hybrid Cloud) (tr-TR)


    SQL Server 2014 News In Memory OLTP
    SQL Server 2014 Yenilikleri - 2 (In-Memory OLTP) (tr-TR)


    SQL Server 2014 News Power BI
    SQL Server 2014 Yenilikleri - 3 (Power BI) (tr-TR)


    SQL Server 2014 News In Memory DW Column Store Index
    SQL Server 2014 Yenilikleri - 4 (In-Memory DW - ColumnStore Index) (tr-TR)

     


    Abdullah KISE TechNet Profile link is here. Abdullak Kise Profile

    Try SQL Server 2014 now, SQL Server 2014 Download Link

    Thank you reading this blog post, have nice day.

  • Wiki Ninjas - Follow the Guidelines

    Did you know about the  Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal?

         

    It's pretty awesome. There's a link to it on the home page of TechNet Wiki (on the right).

    There's stuff like this...

        

       

    It's pretty cool. There's a lot more good stuff...

    Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal

     

    And the cool thing is that it's pretty easy to get to, what with being on the right with the other links of the Wiki homepage:

    Help & Feedback

     

    Pretty cool, huh?

       - Ninja Ed