• 2014 Curah! Awards + the Week of Curah! Awards (1 Year Celebration!)

    What a great week for Curah!! The results are in and we are excited to share that the community added 146 curations this week! Thank you All for your great contributions, every single curation made a big difference to the overall effort. Let’s give a round of applause to the winners of the curation contest:

      

    Top Curators of the Week

    First Place:

    Gokan Ozcifci    https://curah.microsoft.com/curator/32715

     

    Second Place:

    Click                      https://curah.microsoft.com/curator/41245

     

    Third Place:

    Ming Man           https://curah.microsoft.com/curator/7708

     

    Curators with Featured Curations of the Week

    VFreeze_31

    Vasudev

    Paras Wadehra

    Ming Man

    Gokan Ozcifci

    Curah! for CRM

    Corrine

    Ayman El-Hattab

      

    The Curah! Anniversary Week Participant   

    Adão Gonçalves

    AncA Lev Bonaparte Yachine

    Ayman El-Hattab

    Chaminda Chandrasekara

    Chen V

    click

    Corrine

    Curah! for CRM

    Daniel Christian

    Emre GÖZTÜRK

    Freek Berson

    FreeWorld

    Fujiwo

    Gokan Ozcifci

    Hasan Dimdik

    Juan Carlos González Martín - MVP SharePoint Server

    Karan Khanna

    Karen Tazayan

    Koopakiller

    Mauricio Junior

    Mayank Modi

    Michele Locuratolo

    Ming Man

    Mourad Louha

    Nuno Silva - MVP Windows Expert Consumer

    Paras Wadehra

    Peter Geelen

    Pit

    Prasad kulkarni

    Rafael Zaccanini

    rakoellner (MVP Office 365)

    Sean C. - Piraeus Consulting

    Team of Russian Curations

    Vasudev

    VFreeze_31

    Yamazaki Daisuke

     

    In addition we would like to recognize our most dedicated and active contributors over the past year.  We’ve awarded a Curah! badge to each person in the following categories:

       

    Badge – The most active curator

    Andy Gonzalez

    Gokan Ozcifci

    Walter Oswald

    Juan Carlos González Martín - MVP SharePoint Server

    Anil Avula

    Nuno Silva - MVP Windows Expert Consumer

    AMOL GHUGE

    Ming Man

    Prasad kulkarni

    Recep YÜKSEL

     

    Badge – The most popular curator (based on the page views)

    Nathan Barnett

    Vikas Ahlawat

    Prasad kulkarni

    Vikas Ahlawat

    Rick Anderson

    Shivprasad Koirala

    Andy Lewis

    Nipit P.

    Donna Edwards

     


    Badge – The most featured curator (curator with most featured curations)

    Walter Oswald

    Terry Sheng

    Gokan Ozcifci

    Nuno Silva - MVP Windows Expert Consumer

    Prasad kulkarni

    Ming Man

    Marc.Grote

    Yoshihisa Ozaki

    saramgsilva

    click

    Byron Ricks

     

    To claim your badge, please email to CurahFeedback@microsoft.com and we will send you the image directly.

    Please feel free to post the image on your blog, site or other social media as you see fit.

     

    Thank you All for your generous contributions to Curah!! And many thanks to Wiki Ninjas for their great support in this effort!

     

    The Curah! team

     

  • A big thank you Yelena! (Week of Curah!)

    I could actually begin with a « happy birthday too youuu » song, but as I’m the last blogger of the week, I’m a little bit too late. As you might know the Curah! Team are celebrating Curah! Week for one week, and they are holding a contest! For now, the prizes are virtual announcements and badges, but this will evolve over time!

     

    If you participate in this contest, here are the prizes you can win...

     

    Week of Curah Awards - The awards you win for participating this week!

    • Every contest participant will receive

      • “Member of Curah!” – 1st birthday participant badge.

    • Category: “Most Curations – all languages”

      • You'll be listed in this category: “Curah! Award – top curator of the week” 1st  place, 2nd  place, 3rd place

    • Category: “Featured Curations” – everyone who’s curation gets featured that week will get a reward

      • You'll be listed in this category: “Curah! Award – featured curations of the week”

     

    2014 Curah Awards - The awards you win for participating in the 2014 Calendar Year

    • Badge – The most active curators

      • You'll be listed in this category: “Curah! 2014 – Top 10 Curah! Influencers”

    • Badge – The most popular curator (based on the page views)

      • You'll be listed in this category: “Curah! 2014 – Top 10 popular curators”

    • Badge – The most featured curators (curator with most featured curations)

      • You'll be listed in this category: “Curah! 2014 – Top 10 featured curators”

    The contest will end this Sunday at midnight and results will be available the following Monday.  

    Also before ending the curah! Week and context, as a fellow WikiNinja I’d like to thank Yelena House for her E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T work for us!

     

    Thank you Yelena!!

  • Top Contributors Awards! The Avengers, 2012 [AD], Spanish, Gurus and LOVE! Lots and lots of LOVE! <3

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

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

    Ashwin romping to the front this week, thanks to him for such dedicated work.

     

    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 Ashwin Menon with 92 revisions.

      

    #2 Julio Iglesias Pérez with 60 revisions.

      

    #3 Richard Mueller with 37 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Burak_B with 34 revisions.

      

    #5 Ezgi Can_Cloud with 25 revisions.

      

    #6 Chervine with 23 revisions.

      

    #7 Ed Price - MSFT with 20 revisions.

      

    #8 Nonki Takahashi with 16 revisions.

      

    #9 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 16 revisions.

      

    #10 Ana Paula de Almeida with 15 revisions.

      

     

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

     

    #1 Ashwin Menon with 27 articles.

      

    #2 Richard Mueller with 20 articles.

      

    #3 Ed Price - MSFT with 15 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Chervine with 12 articles.

      

    #5 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 12 articles.

      

    #6 Nonki Takahashi with 9 articles.

      

    #7 Ezgi Can_Cloud with 8 articles.

      

    #8 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 8 articles.

      

    #9 Burak_B with 8 articles.

      

    #10 Tomoaki Yoshizawa with 6 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 Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Installation, by Yagmoth555

    This week's reviser was Yagmoth555

    An excellent read from Yagmoth555, the legend grows...

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week
     

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci

    This week's revisers were Recep YUKSEL - TAT, M.Ufuk TATLIDIL - TAT, Alper Yazgan - TAT, Erdem SELÇUK - TAT & Davut EREN - TAT

    The TAT going from strength to strength, as they educate us all with words of wisdom! <3

     

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is Artículos TechNet Wiki en Español (es-ES), by Julio Iglesias Pérez. It was revised 37 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Vicente Gerardo Guzman Lucio, Emre Göztürkk & Julio Iglesias Pérez

    Julio very busy bee this week, takes the award for most busy fingers!

     

    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 TechNet Guru Contributions - November 2014, by XAML guy

    Yaha for, well, all of us, as the facts and fun comes flooding in from the wiki's finest authors! Keep it coming folks!

    This week's revisers were Richard Mueller, saramgsilva, JaredHamilton, Anushka Weerakkodyge, Steven Andrews, Emiliano Musso, chilberto & João Eduardo Sousa

     

     

    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, mostly up to date now...

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

    Ashwin Menon

    Ashwin Menon has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

    Ashwin Menon has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards:

    Ashwin Menon has not yet had any featured articles or interviews (see below)

    Ashwin Menon's profile page



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

    Ashwin Menon

    Ashwin Menon is mentioned above.



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

    Yagmoth555

    Yagmoth555 has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    Yagmoth555 has won 14 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

    Yagmoth555 has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Yagmoth555's profile page



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

    Gokan Ozcifci

    Gokan Ozcifci has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    Gokan Ozcifci has won 61 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

    Gokan Ozcifci has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Gokan Ozcifci's profile page



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

    Julio Iglesias Pérez

    Julio Iglesias Pérez has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards:

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

    Julio Iglesias Pérez's profile page



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

    XAML guy

    XAML guy has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

    XAML guy has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    XAML guy has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

    XAML guy has won 60 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

    XAML guy's profile page



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

    Recep YUKSEL - TAT

    Recep YUKSEL - TAT has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

    Recep YUKSEL - TAT has won 10 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

    Recep YUKSEL - TAT has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

    Recep YUKSEL - TAT's profile page



    You gotta love these folks churning out such gems. Please take the time to read though and don't forget to spread some love in the comments!

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker (XAML guy)

     

  • Curah for everyone!!!

    Curah for everyone

    Hello Wiki Ninjas and valued readers, we are celebrating  1 year of curah. For this celebration, I strongly recommend this article written by Peter Geelen:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/11/17/interview-with-the-curah-ninja-team-celebrating-1-year-curah.aspx

    And also, you want to read this valued article written by Horizon_Net

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/11/19/wiki-life-one-year-of-curah.aspx

    While this blog post is a bit of a Wiki Life, it's being written in English and Turkish to help evangelize Curah to the world!

    Now in Turkish: 

    Merhaba Wiki Ninjalar ve çok değerli okuyucular, Curah’ın 1 yılını kutluyoruz. Bu ilk yılda Peter Geelen’in yazmış olduğu güzel yazıyı okumanızı şiddetle öneriyorum. http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/11/17/interview-with-the-curah-ninja-team-celebrating-1-year-curah.aspx

    Ayrıca, Horizon_Net in yazdığı bu değerli yazıyı incelemek isteyebilirsiniz http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/11/19/wiki-life-one-year-of-curah.aspx

     

    What is Curah? How do you Use it?

    Most people search software, hardware or system problems on the internet. But, it is hard to find, trusted, qualified, and true information on the internet. Most of time, when we search, we can see many page for this problems but less page has true and trusted information. Some of time, when we visit website we get virüs/trojan to our computers. However, you can connect to clean, trusted information with CURAH! Also you can help to improve for our sector. Add a link for curah and help to people.

    In Turkish... 

    Curah Nedir? Nasıl Kullanılır?

    Birçoğumuz, gerek yazılım kaynaklı olsun gerek sistemsel, bir problem yaşadığımızda o problemin çözümünü internette araştırıyoruz. Fakat artık internette kaliteli, doğru, güvenilir içeriği bulabilmek gerçekten zor olmaya başladı. Çoğu zaman aradığımız sorguya ait bir sürü sayfa çıkıyor ama işe yarar birkaç sonuç bulabiliyoruz. Bazen de girdiğimiz sitelerden virüz/trojan gibi zararlı yazılımları bulaştırabiliriz.  Fakat CURAH ile temiz, güvenilir bilgiye erişmek her zaman mümkün! Sektördeki bizim gibi bilişim uzmanlarının eklediği, faydalı bulduğu notları, makaleleri curahınıza ekleyerek sizde sektördeki diğer kişilere yardımcı olabilirsiniz.

      

    How we can Achieve this goal?

    3 steps are enough. Firstly go to https://curah.microsoft.com, Sign In and create a curah. Publish. That's all. Very simple. G oto https://curah.microsoft.com/

    In Turkish...

    Nasıl Yapılır?

    3 adım yeterli; https://curah.microsoft.com a git, sign in  ol ve curah’ını oluştur, paylaş hepsi bu…

    https://curah.microsoft.com/ adresine gidiyoruz

     

    You can search your problems on supported language or you can choose English by default. Noi I want to say “add my curah” then pls continue to read.

    Burada arama yapmak istediğiniz dili seçerek problem yaşadığınız konular hakkında Search alanından aramanızı gerçekleştirebilirseniz. Yok hayır ben curah eklemek istiyorum diyorsanız okumaya devam ediyoruz.

    You can Sign In with your Microsoft Account.

     

     

    Kullandığınız bir Microsoft hesabı ile Sign in oluyoruz.

    When you login, click my curations button.

    Gelen ekranda My curations u seçerek kendi curah sayfanıza gidiyorsunuz

    And click to New curation button

    New curation butonuna basıyoruz.

    Choose your language of your article if you couldn’t see on drop down menu. Then choose English by default. Write a title and describe your articles on description area for example, shortly about resolve of problems. Etc.. Tags are important for SEO so write excellent tags. If you want to  Show your curah for all over the World, then we choose good tags. And click to save button.

     

    Language alanından eklediğiniz yazının diline ait seçimi yapabilirsiniz. Kısa bir başlık yazarak Description of curation alanına hangi konularda curah ekelemek istiyorsunuz, hangi problemlerin çözümü vs. gibi bilgilere yer verebilirsiniz. Ve Tags, tagler arama motorları üzerindeki yardımcı araçlarımızdır. Eğer curahınızı daha büyük kesimlere ulaştırmak istiyorsanız doğru tagler kullanmalısınız. Save diyerek Curah ı kaydediyorum.

    Click add a link button.

    Add a link ile bir curah linki ekleyelim

     

    1-If you like an article or this article was resolve your problem. Then copy  and paste url to URL area. You don’t need publish your article. 2-Click to Extrck title and site name button, it will fill automatic some of area. 3-description will fill automatic. If you want to add more description, write some thing as you think.. 4-If you know author name, write name to author area. And if you want to add more link pls return to 1. Step

     

    1-URL alanına hoşunuza giden, doğru çözümün olduğuna inandığınız makalenin adresini girin, illa bu makale size ait olması gerekmiyor, faydalı bulduğunuz herhangi bir makale olabilir. 2- Extract title and site name butonuna basarak gerekli alanların dolmasını sağlayınız. 3- Description otomatik olarak gelicektir. 4-Eğer biliyorsanız, Yazar adını author alanına yazıyoruz ve save butonu ile ilk linkinizi kaydedebilirsiniz. Hoşunuza giden diğer linkler için 1. Adıma giderek bu işlemi yeniden uygulamalıyız.

    My curation almost ready. Click to Publish button for see everyone.

    Benim curahım hazır. En son bu şekilde görünücek, publish butonuna basarak curahımızı herkesin görebilmesi için yayınlıyoruz.

    Everything Okey for Curah

    Ve herşey tamam.

    You can see my curation here: https://curah.microsoft.com/240408/system-center-service-manager-2012yi-kesfedin

    If you want to see different curation check it https://curah.microsoft.com/19002/best-practices-and-patterns-in-enterprise-software-development

     

    Hazırlamış olduğum curaha https://curah.microsoft.com/240408/system-center-service-manager-2012yi-kesfedin buradan ulaşabilirsiniz. ya da başka bir curah i incelemek isterseniz https://curah.microsoft.com/19002/best-practices-and-patterns-in-enterprise-software-development

    Here you can follow, your best author’s curah when you click him/her name or you can click to tags. If you want to interest about curah with other language http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20643.what-is-curah-and-how-do-i-get-started.aspx read it.

     

    Burada eğer hoşunuza giden kişilerin curah larını takip etmek istiyorsanız sarı işaretli alana tıklayarak sevdiğiniz kişilerin curahlarını takip edebilirsiniz. Ya da sayfa üzerindeki merak ettiğiniz konulara ait taglere tıklayın..

    Eğer farklı diller de curah hakkında merak ediyorsanız, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20643.what-is-curah-and-how-do-i-get-started.aspx adresinden başlayabilirsiniz.

     

     

     

    Turkish Wiki Ninja

    Davut

     

     

  • Curah International Spotlight - What are the International Curations?

    We're rounding off the Week of Curah by taking a look at some of our non-English Curations!

    Please reply in the comments below with your favorite non-English Curations, and we'll add them to this list!

     

    Also, we'll bold the lists that contain at least one link to TechNet Wiki!!!

    German

    Portuguese

    http://curah.microsoft.com/feeds/latest?lang=pt-PT

    Spanish

    Turkish

       

    I'll add more languages as we go!

    What other non-English curations can you find?

    Join the Curation Nation!

       - Ninja Ed