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TechNet Wiki - Enter the Council

  • Artikkeli

Do you know about the TechNet Wiki Community Council? Well we've been running hard for a month, and I think we're ready to tell you about some of the bag of tricks we've been up to.

This is part of a series:

  1. Enter the Council (this blog post)
  2. A New Hope 
  3. Council Strikes Back
  4. Return of the Council 

 

First, here are the current 2013 members...

Microsoft Employees (4)

Observers:

External (7)

And what are we doing? We're working on the TechNet Wiki Community Council Areas of Focus.

The basic idea is that we're pushing forward and making progress in a lot of areas. 

I want to brag about (announce) the great things we have going in some of the areas...

  1.  General Guidelines & Best Practices - Luigi Bruno
    1. Luigi made this new portal to include all our articles on this topic: Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal
    2. I linked to that article from the Home Page of TechNet Wiki.
    3. Got ideas for Luigi? Leave a comment!
  2.  Portal Growth - Luiz Henrique Lima Campos
    1. Luiz came up with a new list of four articles to feature on the home page of the Portuguese Wiki.
    2. I completed writing up the administrative process for our support team and submitted the request. They updated the Portuguese Wiki with the new recommended articles.
    3. Luiz has a lot of other big ideas to improve our portals. Leave a comment if you want to help him.
  3. Cross-Linking Expansion - Markus Vilcinskas
    1. Markus is getting started. Leave a comment with any questions for him or if you want to help.
  4. General Wiki Feature Requests and Bug Requests - Richard Mueller (& Ed Price)
    1. Richard is currently updating the Wiki: Known Issues.
    2. Richard is collecting feedback on what bugs are fixed in this Wiki Discussion forum thread. Please check it out and let him know when you've last seen those bugs. 
    3. I've assembled the feature requests and bugs into a spreadsheet that we review with the wiki/social tools team monthly to track progress. We had our first meeting, and it went very well.
  5. Spammers & Article Deletion - Peter Geelen
    1. Peter has done a fantastic job getting the last three years of spam and spammers cleaned up. Thanks to all the community members who have marked the Wiki articles as spam for him!
    2. If you come across any spam on TechNet Wiki, Peter's article does a great job of giving you steps to take... Wiki User Guide: Handling Abuse.
    3. Eventually we'll probably retire this area of focus and focus on another area instead.
  6. TechNet Wiki Featured Articles
    1. No one is assigned to this area yet.
  7. Product-based Community Growth (Leveraging Forums + Blogs) - Peter Laker (& Ed Price)
    1. Peter added this WPF forum thread to integrate that forum with TechNet Wiki better.
    2. Peter is off to an amazing start with the new TechNet Guru contest! Check out the TechNet Guru Contributions for May.
    3. We're starting with contests with some of the most popular forums:
      1. VisualBasic
      2. VisualC#
      3. SharePoint 2010 General and SharePoint 2010 Development
      4. Transact SQL
      5. Windows Phone Development
    4. Starting in June, I hope to add...
      1. Small Basic
      2. BizTalk
      3. SSAS
      4. SSRS
      5. SSIS
      6. WPF
    5. If you have any questions or requests, please leave a comment!
  8. Wiki Ninjas Blog Planning
    1. No one is assigned to this area yet.
  9. TNWiki Forum Community - Steef-Jan Wiggers
    1. Steef-Jan left an announcement on the Wiki Discussion forum about the Wiki Ninjas blog (this blog).
    2. Steef-Jan started this forum thread to discuss connecting the forums to TechNet Wiki better.
    3. If you have any more ideas or suggestions for Steef-Jan, leave a comment!
  10. General Community Projects and Social Initiatives - Peter Geelen (& Peter Laker)
    1. Both Peters are getting started with their ideas on this one. Leave a comment if you have ideas!
  11. TechNet Wiki International Council - Bruno Lewin (& Luigi Bruno)
    1. The two "Bruno's" are getting a new council going that specializes on growing non-English languages on TechNet Wiki.
  12. TechNet Wiki Advisory Board - Ed Price (& Monica Rush)  
    1. I'm working with Monica Rush to get this board going again: TechNet Wiki Advisory Board
    2. Leave a comment if you have any ideas or suggestions!
  13. Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings - Margriet Bruggeman (& Ed Price)
    1. Margriet and I are building out a new idea for a TechNet Wiki rewards system: Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings

 

So there you are! A lot of amazing things are going on! Let us know if you want to help with any of these individual efforts (or if you have any questions)!

   - Ninja Ed

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2013
    it seems very exiting Ed.. If I can help, I will be honnored! ^^

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    Gokan, The first thing that comes to mind is Bruno's International Council. Second, if you want to help anyone in any of their areas, let us know. Each person/area can use help. In other words, pick any area. =^) Then obviously I'll recommend whoever is helping us to the council when it comes time to invite a new member. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    I would be proud if I could help.

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    I am amazed by the number of Spam articles Peter Geelen has deleted. Also, I'm very impressed by the response to Peter Laker's TechNet guru contest. People are paying attention and responding. Great work.

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    Payman, in which area would you like to help? Same question for Gokan. We'll have the area owner sync with you and give you some ways that you can help. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    Ed, no one is assigned to section 6 (TechNet featured articles). May I help in this section?

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    Payman, you see how easy it is to get things started? All you had to do was ask, and that motivated me. =^) So I added a new article with the framework we'd need: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../17517.technet-wiki-featured-article-teams.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    Payman, can you email me? It's edprice at Microsoft. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2013
    This is really great work Ed! It's good too see that so many have so much time to contribute to the community. Keep it up!

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2013
    @ Patris: I have emailed Ed, it would be a pleasure to work together Patris. ^ ^

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2013
    Okay. Great! I followed up with Patris and Payman. Thanks to both of you!

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2013
    Ed, I'm curious as to something.  You've encouraged the "From Forum" tag within the Wiki but we currently don't have any such usage within the Galleries.  I've uploaded a contribution or two that have been sourced from there and believe that there's plenty more that can be done. If interested, can I drop you an email on the idea to discuss? Cheers, Steven

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2013
    Steven, Yes! I believe there is a "has Gallery link" tag. We could use a lot more Gallery integration! We've written several blogs to encourage this... From Craig: blogs.technet.com/.../synergy-between-the-technet-wiki-and-technet-gallery.aspx From me: blogs.technet.com/.../gallery-technet-wiki-community-synergy.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2013
    Thanks Ed for the words. Unfortunately tomorrow I will not be able to attend the meeting will be traveling. : (

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2013
    Tord, Well I'm not sure we have time. But we're making time! Slowly. Over time. =^)

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2013
    Ed, maybe I can help Peter Geelen?

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2013
    Gokan, YES! Peter's #5 (spam) or #10 (other community projects)? Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2013
    I choose for #5 ..( spam ) ..

  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2013
    Ed, On the Wiki pt-BR, we need the guide created by Luigi (item 1 - "Governance and Guidelines Portal"). It was excellent and we not have this reference guide in Wiki pt-BR. I can start this translation (no problems)? I liked to help Luiz (item 2 - "Growth Portal") and, I can also help the two "Bruno's" (item 13 - "Wiki International Council"). I love SQL and believe that my knowledge can help, but today it is more important organize the content for the Community to create more information that can be lost. This does not mean I'll stop creating my articles.

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    Hello Community for today's Monday Interview with a Wiki Ninja post (wait, what?! It's two of

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    Updates... Gokan is now a member and focuses on #10 (other community projects). Durval, yes, you can help with this for a bit. You just became a blog author, so we'll get the community comfortable with you through that. We'll chat some more in Skype. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2014
    Congratulations