Top Contributors Awards! May Week 3
Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week, up till Saturday. Two days late, as per recent tradition... :}
Some issues with the wiki and the crawler have changed results slightly, but I've pulled as much together as I can.
As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.
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Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions |
#1 Peter Geelen with 37 revisions.
#2 SMSVikasK with 17 revisions.
#3 [Kamlesh Kumar] with 17 revisions.
Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
#4 charlie.mott with 16 revisions.
#5 Anil Maharjan with 11 revisions.
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Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles |
#1 SMSVikasK with 13 articles.
#2 [Kamlesh Kumar] with 12 articles.
#3 Peter Geelen with 10 articles.
Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
#4 Richard Mueller with 3 articles.
#5 emilio jose sanchez gonzalez with 2 articles.
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Most Updated Article Award Largest amount of updated content in a single article |
The article to have the most change this week was Creating Azure Mobile App With Visual Studio, by Sibeesh Venu
This week's reviser was Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013)
A great article here from Sibeesh, well worth a look!
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Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week |
This week's largest document to get some attention is Wiki: Glossary of Technology Acronyms, by Richard Mueller
This week's reviser was Richard Mueller
Legendary legend Richard tweaking this hub of all that is shortened.
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Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week |
This week's most fiddled with article is Small Basic: Making a Color Solarisation, by YLed. It was revised 12 times last week.
This week's revisers were Ed Price - MSFT, Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013), YLed & Peter Geelen
Great work going into this ofering from YLed, even the greats Peter and Ed having a look and edit.
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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 - May 2016, by XAML guy
Community LIVES! Gurus from across the world converge at TechNet Wiki. Behold, more great reads!
This week's revisers were chilberto, Tarh ik, Anil Maharjan, Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013), Matt McNabb, George Chondrompilas & XAML guy
As guru almost always wins, the article to be updated by the SECOND most people this week is DirectX: DrawIndexedInstanced and the Concepts behind a Home-Made Game Engine, by Tarh ik
Fascinating read from Tarh. Be sure to pop by and pull up a chair for a well produced and presented story.
This week's revisers were Peter Geelen, Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013), Richard Mueller & Tarh ik
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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 5 of BizTalk Server : Feedback was saved by TWolverson just 4 minutes after charlie.mott
Revision 1 of List of Build Numbers System Center – Operation Manager (MOM/SCOM) was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 5 minutes after Waleed.Mostafa
Revision 2 of Office 365: How to Manage User License Lifecycle with PowerShell was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 5 minutes after Matt McNabb
Revision 7 of Small Basic: Making a Color Solarisation was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 5 minutes after YLed
Revision 4 of Power BI: The Ultimate Guide to Lookups was saved by Peter Geelen just 6 minutes after Greg Deckler (Fusion Alliance)
Revision 2 of Small Basic: Making a Color Solarisation was saved by Peter Geelen just 12 minutes after YLed
Revision 18 of How to use Powershell to Export the FIM Sync Run History to a CSV File was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 19 minutes after Peter Geelen
Revision 6 of BizTalk Server : Feedback was saved by charlie.mott just 20 minutes after TWolverson
Winner Summary Let's celebrate our winners! Below are a few statistics on this week's award winners.
Most Updated Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes.Sibeesh Venu
Sibeesh Venu has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards:
- 16 May '16: Most Updated Article Award for creating-azure-mobile-app-with-visual-studio
- 08 May '16: Most Updated Article Award for creating-azure-mobile-app-with-visual-studio
- 08 May '16: Most Popular Article Award for creating-azure-mobile-app-with-visual-studio
- 01 May '16: Most Updated Article Award for programmatically-extract-or-unzip-ziprar-files-and-check
Sibeesh Venu has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)
Longest Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long!Richard Mueller
Richard Mueller has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!
- 17 Sep '12: monday-interview-with-a-mvp-richard-mueller
- 17 Jun '13: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-richard-and-ed
Richard Mueller has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!
- 09 Jul '15: Wiki: Cross-Linking
Richard Mueller has won 149 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:
- 16 May '16: Longest Article Award for wiki-glossary-of-technology-acronyms
- 01 Apr '16: Most Articles Updated Award
- 14 Mar '16: Most Revisions Award
- 14 Mar '16: Most Articles Updated Award
- 14 Mar '16: Longest Article Award for wiki-glossary-of-technology-acronyms
Richard Mueller has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Oct '14: Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
- In Nov '14: Filters with PowerShell Active Directory Module Cmdlets
- In Dec '14: Active Directory: Leading Spaces in Names
- In Jan '15: Active Directory: Fun with Maximum Password Age
- In Feb '15: Document Your Active Directory Organization
- In Feb '15: Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
- In Feb '15: Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
- In Feb '15: Document Your Active Directory Organization
- In Feb '15: Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
- In Feb '15: Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
- In Mar '15: PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
- In May '15: Active Directory: Large Integer Attributes
- In Aug '15: Wiki: How to Add Entries to a TechNet Wiki Glossary
- In Aug '15: Active Directory: Non-Linked Multi-Valued Attribute Size Limits
- In Sep '15: Active Directory: Allow Linked Multi-Valued Attributes to use LVR
- In Oct '15: Active Directory: Bad Passwords and Account Lockout Richard Mueller's profile page
Most Revised Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the mostYLed
This is the first Top Contributors award for YLed on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations YLed!
YLed has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)
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 been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!
- 23 Oct '12: interview-with-2-wikininjas-peter-laker-amp-ana-paula-de-almeida
- 28 Oct '13: interview-with-quot-xaml-guy-quot
XAML guy has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!
- 11 Nov '12: TechNet Wiki Widget (Windows 8)
- 23 Nov '12: Blackboard Design Pattern: A Practical Example - Radar Defense System
XAML guy has won 111 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:
- 16 May '16: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-may-2016
- 08 May '16: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-may-2016
- 01 May '16: Most Revised Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-april-2016
- 24 Apr '16: Most Revised Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-april-2016
- 18 Apr '16: Most Revised Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-april-2016
XAML guy has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Jun '13: WPF: How to manage available/selected lists. Simple examples. MVVM and Code behind
- In Jul '13: WPF Data, Item and Control Templates - Minimum code, maximum awesome
- In Aug '13: Best ComboBox Tutorial Ever
- In Oct '13: WPF: Watermarked TextBox and PasswordBox
- In May '14: TechNet Guru Competition: Judge System Explanation
- In Jun '14: History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
- In Mar '15: Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings XAML guy's profile page
Tarh ik
This is the first Top Contributors award for Tarh ik on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Tarh ik!
Tarh ik has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)
Thank you to everyone again for another great week! See you again soon!
Best regards,
Pete Laker (XAML guy)- More about TechNet Wiki Ninja Belts
- Get nominated for a TechNet Wiki Featured Article
- More about being interviewed on TechNet Wiki blogs
- And if you want to get listed HERE, you'd better get busy! :D
Comments
- Anonymous
May 16, 2016
Well done all Contributors! - Anonymous
May 16, 2016
Looks like serious issues with crawler as I was(even today) on top of edits n I know I edited more article then the mentioned in winner list. Could you please check?- Anonymous
May 17, 2016
It is becuase of couple of my articles marked for deletion?- Anonymous
May 17, 2016
@Waqas, yes, as discussed offline, some of your articles were reported for duplicate content by the community. That might impact the revision count in this week's overview. But it's a overview... so next week it's business as usual (if nothing else is reported, from any of the Wiki ninja's ;) ...)
- Anonymous
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- Anonymous
May 17, 2016
Well done all contributors :-)Congrats to all winners - Anonymous
May 17, 2016
Congrats to all winners - Anonymous
May 18, 2016
Thank you very much!!!! And thank you XAML Guy for your kind words!!!! I'm crossing my fingers, hoping that my article lives up to the expectations!!Congratulations to all Contributors!!! - Anonymous
May 18, 2016
Great job writers! Thanks Pete for sharing! :-) - Anonymous
May 19, 2016
Congrats to all the Contributors :) - Anonymous
May 23, 2016
Congrats everyone. - Anonymous
May 24, 2016
looks like no award for week 4. :(