Top Contributors Awards! VB.NET Type conversions and many more!

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

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

 

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

 

Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions

 

#1 Peter Geelen with 111 revisions.

 

#2 Ramabadran Vasudevan with 36 revisions.

 

#3 Emre Ozan Memis with 31 revisions.

 

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

 

#4 Dave Rendón with 22 revisions.

 

#5 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 11 revisions.

 

#6 Edward van Biljon with 10 revisions.

 

#7 Leon Laude with 9 revisions.

 

#8 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 8 revisions.

 

#9 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 8 revisions.

 

#10 Av111 with 8 revisions.

 

 

Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles

 

#1 Peter Geelen with 45 articles.

 

#2 Emre Ozan Memis with 19 articles.

 

#3 Ramabadran Vasudevan with 17 articles.

 

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

 

#4 Dave Rendón with 9 articles.

 

#5 Av111 with 4 articles.

 

#6 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 4 articles.

 

#7 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 3 articles.

 

#8 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 2 articles.

 

#9 Richard Mueller with 2 articles.

 

#10 Leon Laude with 2 articles.

 

 

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

 

The article to have the most change this week was Azure Managed Instance: Configure P2S VPN Using Certificates and Connect to SQL managed Instance from On-premise Machine , by Shanky_621

This week's reviser was George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos

 

Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week

 

This week's largest document to get some attention is VB.NET Type conversions (Part 1), by Kareninstructor

This week's revisers were Peter Geelen & Kareninstructor

 

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

 

This week's most fiddled with article is Microsoft Power Platform: Entendendo , by Fernando Lugão Veltem. It was revised 15 times last week.

This week's revisers were Fernando Lugão Veltem, Dave Rendón & Peter Geelen

 

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

 

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Windows server 2019 Step-By-Step: Setup Active Directory environment using PowerShell , by Ramabadran Vasudevan

This week's revisers were Ramabadran Vasudevan, George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos, Emre Ozan Memis & Peter Geelen

 

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 Microsoft Power Platform: Entendendo was saved by Peter Geelen just 10 minutes after Fernando Lugão Veltem

  Congratulations to Peter Geelen!
  Also in the top ten are:

• Revision 39 of PowerShell Script Editors was saved by Peter Geelen just 38 minutes after Himanshu Kulkarni

• Revision 11 of Windows server 2019 Step-By-Step: Setup Active Directory environment using PowerShell was saved by Emre Ozan Memis just 42 minutes after Peter Geelen

• Revision 11 of Windows Server: Installing roles and features in different ways was saved by Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh just 50 minutes after Leon Laude

• Revision 13 of Windows Server: Installing roles and features in different ways was saved by Dave Rendón just 75 minutes after Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh

• Revision 7 of Microsoft Power Platform: Entendendo was saved by Dave Rendón just 162 minutes after Peter Geelen

• Revision 12 of Windows server 2019 Step-By-Step: Setup Active Directory environment using PowerShell was saved by Ramabadran Vasudevan just 202 minutes after Emre Ozan Memis

• Revision 27 of TechNet Guru Competitions: April 2019 was saved by Kareninstructor just 354 minutes after Shanky_621

• Revision 1 of T-SQL: Dynamic MERGE Script was saved by Peter Geelen just 448 minutes after Natiq Rzazade

• Revision 1 of Exchange 2010/2013/2016: Check Mailbox Database Copy status with PowerShell was saved by Peter Geelen just 472 minutes after Edward van Biljon

 

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.

Peter Geelen

Peter Geelen has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 26 Dec '11: interview-with-a-forefront-identity-manager-mvp-peter-geelen-wiki-tips-experiences-amp-tips-on-becoming-an-mvp

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 295 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 20 Apr '19: Most Revisions Award
• 20 Apr '19: Most Articles Updated Award
• 20 Apr '19: Ninja Edit Award for microsoft-power-platform-entendendo
• 13 Apr '19: Most Revisions Award
• 13 Apr '19: Most Articles Updated Award

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
• In Aug '16: FIM/MIM Forum: How to get the maximum return on your forum question?
• In Sep '16: FIM/MIM Troubleshooting Error 25009
• In Sep '16: MIM Troubleshooting: upgrade from ILM fails with error 25009 (<hr=0x80230406>)
• In Sep '16: Wiki: report broken links
• In Oct '16: MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: FIM MA Full import error 0x80070002
• In Oct '16: Wiki Governance: Why certain Wiki content is removed or archived
• In Oct '16: Active Directory PowerShell: List items with “Protect object from accidental deletion” setting
• In Nov '16: Forums: How to get the maximum return on your forum question?
• In Nov '16: Wiki Template: Alternate TOC with scrollable tables
• In Dec '16: FIM 2010 / MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: The requestor’s identity was not found.
• In Mar '17: O365: Admin password recovery options
• In Apr '17: MIM2016/FIM2010 Troubleshooting: Uninstall fails with error - Administrator privileges required
• In Apr '17: MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: Unable to run the Management Agent (Error: 0x8023063d)
• In Apr '17: FIM2010/MIM2016 Troubleshooting: Issues with deleted objects (from CN=Deleted objects container)
• In Apr '17: Security Compliance Manager (SCM): Quick Links (curation)
• In Apr '17: Xamarin: Wiki portal
• In Apr '17: Microsoft Bot Framework: Wiki Portal
• In Dec '17: Windows Component Services Troubleshooting: Unable to edit DCOM security permissions
• In Feb '18: MIM 2016 Service and Portal Troubleshooting: Hotfix installation failure (Unauthorized operation)
• In Feb '18: MIM 2016 Service and Portal Troubleshooting: Hotfix installation failure (deployment or retraction is already under way)
• In Feb '18: MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: no-start-bad-ma-configuration
• In Apr '18: MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: SQL Connection issues
• In May '18: MIM/FIM Troubleshooting: Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334 (Primary Server)
• In May '18: MIM/FIM Troubleshooting Collection: Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334
• In Jul '18: MIM 2016: finding & removing orphaned users and groups in MIM Portal
• In Jul '18: Word Quick Tip: Automatically adding a page to odd page-number document
• In Aug '18: Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting: Client App windows fails to minimize (showing purple square)

Peter Geelen's profile page

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

Peter Geelen

Peter Geelen is mentioned above.

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

Shanky_621

Shanky_621 has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 13 Jan '14: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-and-sql-server-guru-winner-shanky-621

Shanky_621 has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

• 26 Oct '13: SQL Server: Understanding Lock Escalation
• 09 Jul '15: Understanding Logging in Tempdb. Is Tempdb Recreated or Rebuilt after SQL Server Starts?

Shanky_621 has won 9 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 20 Apr '19: Most Updated Article Award for azure-managed-instance-configure-p2s-vpn-using-certificates-and-connect-to-sql-managed-instance-from-on-premise-machine
• 16 Sep '18: Most Revised Article Award for sql-server-troubleshooting-database-corruption-recovery-simulation
• 26 Jul '14: Most Updated Article Award for how-to-install-sql-server-2012-sp2-on-standalone-sql-server-instance
• 22 Jun '14: Most Revisions Award
• 22 Jun '14: Most Articles Updated Award

Shanky_621 has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

• In Jul '13: How to Transfer Records from SQL Server to Postgres
• In Sep '13: Understanding Lock Escalation
• In Oct '13: What does 'Log Truncation'
• In Jan '14: SQL Server Memory and Troubleshooting
• In Jan '14: When Using DBCC SHRINKFILE for log files can we use TRUNCATEONLY OPTION
• In Mar '14: Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL Server restart
• In May '14: Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery Model
• In Jun '14: SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
• In Jul '14: How to Install SQL Server 2012 SP2 on Standalone Instance of SQL Server
• In Sep '14: An Examination of Logging in Truncate Table Statement and Its Comparison With Delete Statement
• In Oct '14: In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
• In Nov '14: SQL Server 2012 Memory changes :Do Not Refer to Buffer Pool value in Dbcc Memorystatus and Counter SQL Server Buffer Manager: Target pages
• In Jan '15: Ways of improving user experience with MSDN forums
• In Apr '15: Does SQL Server Backup Operation Uses Parallelism
• In Apr '15: Should we move resource database ?
• In May '16: What Does Fragmentation Means In a Heap Table In SQL Server

Shanky_621's profile page

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

Kareninstructor

Kareninstructor has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 04 Jun '18: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/2018/06/04/interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-mvp-and-moderator-under-vb-net-more-karen-payne/

Kareninstructor has won 15 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 20 Apr '19: Longest Article Award for vb-net-type-conversions-part-1
• 02 Feb '19: Longest Article Award for ms-access-with-vb-net-best-practices-part-1
• 26 Jan '19: Longest Article Award for best-practices-working-with-ms-access-with-vb-net-part-1
• 03 Nov '18: Longest Article Award for excel-operations-with-open-xml-automation-and-oledb
• 20 Oct '18: Longest Article Award for c-processing-csv-files-part-1

Kareninstructor has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

• In Feb '18: Defensive data programming part 1
• In Mar '18: SQL-Server application using classes for data access
• In Mar '18: Fundamentals for master detail data view
• In Mar '18: Excel operations with Open XML, Automation and OleDb
• In Mar '18: How to: display unit test methods in Visual Studio Test Explorer
• In Mar '18: Writing SQL for your application
• In Apr '18: Working with parameterized SQL operations
• In Apr '18: Working with parameterized SQL operations part 2
• In Apr '18: Entity Framework unit testing with mocked data and auto cleanup of data
• In May '18: Essential VB.NET Tuples
• In May '18: .NET: Defensive data programming (Part 2)
• In May '18: Working with SMTP email with C# (Part 1)
• In May '18: Windows forms Auto complete ComboBox C#
• In Jun '18: .NET: Defensive data programming (Part 3)
• In Jun '18: SQL-Server- C# Find duplicate record with identity
• In Jul '18: VB.NET Reading images from SQL-Server
• In Jul '18: C# unit testing extension methods and validation
• In Jul '18: C# DataGridView - ListBox - CheckListBox - ListView move items up/down
• In Jul '18: C# 7 new method for returning data with out parameters and ValueTuple
• In Aug '18: VB.NET: Export from SQL-Server to Excel
• In Aug '18: SQL-Server dynamic WHERE conditions in C#
• In Oct '18: How to: Consistent modal message dialogs with C# and jQuery
• In Oct '18: C# Excel connection component tray builder
• In Oct '18: SMO/SQL-Server (VB.NET) Part 1
• In Oct '18: VB.NET: Dynamic filter (WHERE) conditions when working with SQL server queries
• In Oct '18: C# Processing CSV  files part 1
• In Oct '18: SMO/SQL-Server (VB.NET) Part 1
• In Oct '18: VB.NET: Dynamic filter (WHERE) conditions when working with SQL server queries
• In Oct '18: C# Processing CSV  files part 1
• In Nov '18: jQuery – HTML5 Geolocation custom class
• In Nov '18: DataGridView setup header text using SQL-Server
• In Nov '18: DataGridView setup for surveys
• In Jan '19: Database selective connection strings
• In Jan '19: Secure connection string for Windows Forms (VB.NET)
• In Jan '19: C# Working with SQL-Server time type in Windows forms
• In Jan '19: Basic operations: Open XML SDK 2.5 Office Word documents
• In Jan '19: Extension methods (C#)

Kareninstructor has not yet had any featured articles (see below)

Kareninstructor's profile page

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

Fernando Lugão Veltem

Fernando Lugão Veltem has won 54 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 20 Apr '19: Most Revised Article Award for microsoft-power-platform-entendendo
• 29 Apr '18: Most Updated Article Award for configurando-excecoes-no-data-loss-prevention
• 04 Dec '16: Most Updated Article Award for instalacao-e-configuracao-do-monitoring-server-role-pt-br
• 14 Aug '16: Most Updated Article Award for azure-network-security-group
• 17 Jan '16: Most Popular Article Award for agenda-de-publicacoes-no-blog-wiki-ninjas-brasil

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

Fernando Lugão Veltem's profile page

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

Ramabadran Vasudevan

Ramabadran Vasudevan has won 3 previous Top Contributor Awards:

• 20 Apr '19: Most Revisions Award
• 20 Apr '19: Most Articles Updated Award
• 20 Apr '19: Most Popular Article Award for windows-server-2019-step-by-step-setup-active-directory-environment-using-powershell

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

Ramabadran Vasudevan's profile page

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

Peter Geelen

Peter Geelen is mentioned above.

 

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Comments

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2019
  Thanks for sharing :-)　Congrats to the top contributors of the week?Well done to all contributorsNote! If you are planning to be nominated for MVP or any other reward including getting new job, you can use these announcement as proof to your contribution. I recommend to save any announcement like this which mention your name... It can only help in the future?
• Anonymous
  May 03, 2019
  Congrats to all!