Top Contributors Awards! Skype, Active Directory, PowerShell and a lot of Wiki Wordsmanship!
Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.
Just a couple of days late, but some big scores last week, worth shouting about!
First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...
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 Edward van Biljon with 254 revisions.
#2 [Kamlesh Kumar] with 88 revisions.
#3 Prashanth Jayaram with 81 revisions.
Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
#4 Peter Geelen with 73 revisions.
#5 Vincent Karunaidas with 45 revisions.
#6 Burak Ugur with 27 revisions.
#7 Sabah Shariq with 19 revisions.
#8 Renato Groffe with 15 revisions.
#9 Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) with 13 revisions.
#10 Nonki Takahashi with 13 revisions.
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Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles |
#1 Edward van Biljon with 245 articles.
#2 [Kamlesh Kumar] with 79 articles.
#3 Peter Geelen with 29 articles.
Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
#4 Vincent Karunaidas with 16 articles.
#5 Burak Ugur with 15 articles.
#6 Sabah Shariq with 11 articles.
#7 Prashanth Jayaram with 9 articles.
#8 Luiz Henrique Lima Campos [MVP] with 5 articles.
#9 Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) with 4 articles.
#10 Nonki Takahashi with 3 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 In-Place Upgrade Lync Server 2013 to Skype for Business Server 2015, by Edward van Biljon
This week's reviser was GrahameA
A great article from Ed here, nicely updated from Lync to Skype :)
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Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week |
This week's largest document to get some attention is Main classes associated with Active Directory using C#, by Ricardo Lacerda
This week's revisers were Ricardo Lacerda & Sabah Shariq
A great summary of AD classes here from Ricardo. A great reference!
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Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week |
This week's most fiddled with article is PowerShell : CSV - Disk Space Report - Excel , by Prashanth Jayaram. It was revised 50 times last week.
This week's revisers were Prashanth Jayaram, Peter Geelen & Vincent Karunaidas
Nice article here from Prashanth, very useful!
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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 Competitions - September 2016, by Peter Geelen
Go go Guru givers! They just keep on giving, and we love them for it.
This week's revisers were Mandar Dharmadhikari, Sandeep Shekhawat, Kjetil Tonstad, Dileepa Kariyawasam, Peter Geelen, Harvansh Singh & Carmelo La Monica
As Guru often wins, the article to be updated by the SECOND most people this week is BizTalk: PowerShell Script To Create and Configure HTTP Receive Location, by Mandar Dharmadhikari
A great script, updated by wiki greats! Thanks everyone!
This week's revisers were Mandar Dharmadhikari, Peter Geelen, Vincent Karunaidas & Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013)
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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 1 of Skype for Business Client Registration Process through HLB was saved by Burak Ugur just 2 minutes after Shankar.PaulrajCongratulations to Burak Ugur! Two minutes is a great win.
Also in the top ten are: - Revision 2 of PowerShell : CSV - Disk Space Report - HTML was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 4 minutes after Prashanth Jayaram
Revision 23 of PowerShell : CSV - Disk Space Report - Excel was saved by Peter Geelen just 4 minutes after Prashanth Jayaram
Revision 2 of C#: Dependency Injection In Console Application was saved by Burak Ugur just 6 minutes after Sandeep Shekhawat
Revision 3 of PowerShell : CSV - Disk Space Report - HTML was saved by Prashanth Jayaram just 6 minutes after Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013)
Revision 2 of Skype for Business Client Registration Process through HLB was saved by Shankar.Paulraj just 9 minutes after Burak Ugur
Revision 5 of SQL Server: Handling Indexes Fragmentation was saved by Peter Geelen just 14 minutes after Edward van Biljon
Revision 2 of What is Customer Lockbox in Office 365 and How to Enable it was saved by Vincent Karunaidas just 19 minutes after Dileepa Kariyawasam
Revision 2 of Windows Troubleshooting: Logon Creates temporary profile automatically was saved by Burak Ugur just 22 minutes after Santhakumar Munuswamy
Revision 2 of c#: Web Api design was saved by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013) just 24 minutes after Mauricio-Junior
Winner Summary Let's celebrate our winners! Below are a few statistics on this week's award winners.
Most Revisions Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.Edward van Biljon
Ed (DareDevil57) has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!
Ed (DareDevil57) has won 48 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:
- 26 Sep '16: Most Revisions Award
- 26 Sep '16: Most Articles Updated Award
- 26 Sep '16: Most Updated Article Award for in-place-upgrade-lync-server-2013-to-skype-for-business-server-2015
- 03 Sep '16: Most Revisions Award
- 03 Sep '16: Most Articles Updated Award
Ed (DareDevil57) has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)
Ed (DareDevil57)'s profile page
Most Articles Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.Edward van Biljon
Edward van Biljon is mentioned above.
Most Updated Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes.Edward van Biljon
Edward van Biljon is mentioned above.
Longest Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long!Ricardo Lacerda
Ricardo Lacerda has won 6 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:
- 26 Sep '16: Longest Article Award for main-classes-associated-with-active-directory-using-c
- 27 Jun '15: Most Revisions Award
- 27 Jun '15: Most Revised Article Award for power-bi-changing-data-culture-with-microsoft-datazen
- 22 Jun '15: Most Revised Article Award for power-bi-changing-data-culture-with-microsoft-datazen
- 04 Apr '15: Most Revised Article Award for ssis-data-maintenance-with-microsoft-azure-sql-database
Ricardo Lacerda has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Feb '15: Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals - Accumulated Earnings
- In Feb '15: Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals - Accumulated Earnings
- In Mar '15: SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- In Jun '15: Power BI - Changing Data Culture with Microsoft Datazen
Ricardo Lacerda has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below)
Ricardo Lacerda's profile page
Most Revised Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the mostPrashanth Jayaram
Prashanth Jayaram has won 3 previous Top Contributor Awards:
- 26 Sep '16: Most Revisions Award
- 26 Sep '16: Most Revised Article Award for powershell-csv-disk-space-report-excel
- 31 Jul '16: Most Revisions Award
Prashanth Jayaram has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Nov '14: Capturing Database(s) and Table Usage stats – sp_spaceused simulation using DMV’s
- In Dec '14: SSAS - Discuss various backup methods & Automating cube database backup with AMO - PowerShell
- In Jun '16: PowerShell-List-and-Export-Installed-Program(s)-Local/Remote-system(s)
- In Jul '16: PowerShell- DiskSpaceGUI-Tool-MultiServer(s)-Grid-Email-Search-Features
Prashanth Jayaram has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below)
Prashanth Jayaram's profile page
Most Popular Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention.Peter Geelen
Peter Geelen has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!
Peter Geelen has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!
- 19 Aug '11: Wiki: How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your TechNet Wiki Article
- 05 Sep '11: Forefront Identity Manager Resources
- 03 Jan '12: FIM 2010 Wiki Articles
- 08 May '12: How to Use PowerShell to Create a Wiki Catalog Page
- 09 Mar '13: FIM 2010 Software Solutions from Partners
- 11 Apr '15: Wiki Governance: Copyright, Privacy & Piracy
- 31 Dec '15: Wiki Governance: Copyright, Privacy & Piracy
Peter Geelen has won 132 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:
- 26 Sep '16: Most Articles Updated Award
- 26 Sep '16: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-competitions-september-2016
- 11 Sep '16: Most Revisions Award
- 11 Sep '16: Most Articles Updated Award
- 11 Sep '16: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-competitions-september-2016
Peter Geelen has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Nov '14: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) - Resource Portal
- In Sep '15: FIM 2010: Verifying the Sync Engine Security Groups
- In Sep '15: PowerShell: Event viewer statistics
- In Jan '16: FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services – Part 1. Introduction
- In Jan '16: FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services – Part 4. Detailed Description
- In May '16: FIM2010 / MIM2016: Run profile statistics with PowerShell and Excel Pivot Tables
- In May '16: FIM2010 / MIM2016: Run profile statistics with SQL and Excel Pivot Tables
- In May '16: Wiki: Fixing table layout (table right side off page)
- In Jun '16: Translation Wiki: Getting started
- In Jun '16: Wiki: Before you post your article – Quick check list
- In Jun '16: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) Portal
- In Jul '16: Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook: Online Companion Guide
- In Jul '16: Wiki: Collection of Practical hints & tips for writing an article (from Wiki blog)
- In Jul '16: Wiki: Portal or Survival guide?
- In Jul '16: Best Practices for Internal AD Domain and Network Names Peter Geelen's profile page
Mandar Dharmadhikari
This is the first Top Contributors award for Mandar Dharmadhikari on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Mandar Dharmadhikari!
Mandar Dharmadhikari has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:
- In Jul '16: Analysis of Scenario Which Results in TDDS Crash
Mandar Dharmadhikari has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below)
Mandar Dharmadhikari's profile page
Ninja Edit Award Winner
The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest!Burak Ugur
Burak Ugur has won 2 previous Top Contributor Awards:
- 26 Sep '16: Ninja Edit Award for skype-for-business-client-registration-process-through-hlb
- 11 Sep '16: Most Revisions Award
Burak Ugur has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)
What an awesome week of word wizardry!
Please watch out next week, hopefully for a new "Top Contribs" presenter.
I must soon move onto new projects. But we have a Wiki legend stepping up to help.
Best regards,
Pete Laker (XAML guy)
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Comments
- Anonymous
September 26, 2016
Happy to be in the list of the top contributors of the technet wiki... - Anonymous
September 27, 2016
Congratulations to all contributors!!! - Anonymous
September 27, 2016
Thanks for sharing Pete Laker!!! - Anonymous
September 27, 2016
Congrats to all the cotributors :) - Anonymous
September 27, 2016
Well done all contributors :-)