MSDN Online Community Content turns 1!
Exactly one year ago today, I announced the broad customer availability of the Community Content feature in the MSDN Online Library. This feature allows developers to contribute code and content in a wiki environment alongside the official online documentation.
A year has gone by and I am pleased to say that this feature has been extended to over 3.3 million topics of documentation, covering 8 languages, in the MSDN and TechNet online libraries.
More importantly, I want to take this opportunity to thank the close to 4,000 registered contributors worldwide that have added comments, tips, notes and code samples directly alongside the developer and ITPro documentation we publish. These contributions will benefit the community of developers and IT professionals around the world.
Moving forward, we have a set of exciting new features in the pipeline. The most significant ones are:
- Improved discoverability of the community content feature, based on feedback we have received from you
- Scoped RSS feeds that will allow you to track contributions to specific areas of the library
- Editor improvements that will make adding content easier and more flexible
- A recognition feature to give more credit to contributors
If you have questions or feedback, you can contact the team via the MSDNWiki feedback alias or visit them online in the MSDN and TechNet Facebook groups.
I would like to extend an invitation to all developers and IT professionals that visit our online libraries to try this feature and contribute code and content. Your unique experience with our products and technologies is worth sharing. The more you contribute, the more we all benefit!
Namaste!
Comments
Anonymous
December 07, 2007
I liked this feature very much. The only reason that I haven't used it myself to contribute is that if you find a documentation error or bug it says that you should not use the community content to report it but you should go to a separate website and file a lengthy bug report, a long process which I am unwilling to spend my time on, although I have found many errors in the documentation which I could have easily fixed by adding a correction in the community content section. But you say that community content is not for that and so I haven't contributed.Anonymous
December 07, 2007
If you come across a documentation error, we encourage you to report it through the community content feature. Please be sure to tag it as "contentbug", so that we can easily find it and use that information to update the documentation as we do that continuously. Once the documentation bug is fixed, we will remove the content block. Another easy way to report a documentation issue is available directly on the topic itself, under "Click to rate and give feedback", on the upper right area of your screen. Looking forward to your contributions!Anonymous
December 07, 2007
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December 08, 2007
Dhruvin, per my previous post, please note that every topic in the MSDN library has a feedback area in the upper right corner of the topic, under "Click to rate and give feedback". We take feedback on the topic, as well as the community content for that topic. I encourage you to use this mechanism to give us feedback on any topic.Anonymous
December 10, 2007
Soma posted on the MSDN Wiki being one year old . It has been a fun project and we have lots more inAnonymous
December 10, 2007
On Friday, we had our 1 year anniversary of Community Content. The team would like to thank all the contributorsAnonymous
December 10, 2007
I have used the click to rate and give feedback but it seems that my feedback is never acted upon. For example, some years ago I reported an error in the samples found in the Platform SDK on the Win32 Treeview Control. They could not even compile. And until this day no fix was provided. Generally, now that I have the opportunity, the Win32 topics are very old, the samples need updating and modernizing, they need to adopt the same conventions everywhere, there should be more accessible even to beginners and they should be more complete in all areas. Richer samples are also needed. The .NET topics appear to me much better, whilst the old Win32 topics are, well old. Written in the 80s or 90s it seems. Please modernize them and take feedback seriously. If I were you I would have re-written many of them and put more descriptions for every little detail and also more sample code. Programming for Win32 API especially for a beginner is much much much than .NET, partly thanks to the old documentation.Anonymous
December 10, 2007
On Friday, we had our 1 year anniversary of Community Content. The team would like to thank all the contributorsAnonymous
December 10, 2007
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December 10, 2007
Check out Soma’s blog entry about the Community Content feature in the MSDN Online Library. This featureAnonymous
December 10, 2007
Check out Soma’s blog entry about the Community Content feature in the MSDN Online Library. This featureAnonymous
December 10, 2007
Anon, I will pass your feedback to our content team. We take documentation feedback from customers and work on improving our content. We got 80,000 plus customer comments for our VS 2005 content. We incorporate these feedback and improve our product and documentation. I will make sure your feedback is taken in improving the Win32 API content. Cheers. Anand.. Group Manager Microsoft Corp. http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/Anonymous
December 24, 2007
Three Cheers for MSDN Wiki!! where is d Party? ;)Anonymous
July 23, 2008
Soma wrote: >> If you have questions or feedback, you can contact the team via the MSDNWiki feedback alias or visit them online in the MSDN and TechNet Facebook groups. << The email links are broken. mailto:wikifdbk @ what domain?! How do I email them? I have feedback specific to the topic being discussed here. I'll be glad if you could provide the email address of the team. Thanks. Rajesh.Anonymous
July 23, 2008
Rajesh - you can contact the team at wikifdbk@microsoft.com. -Meghan