The MSDN Article on TNWiki: Around the world in 4 DAYS!!!
Today is Community Win Thursday, where we talk about community-oriented collaborations on TechNet Wiki, which would not be possible on closed/selfish authoring platforms.
Part 1: Stubbed (from the United States)
Observe the history of this MSDN article I created on TechNet Wiki:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7079.msdn-en-us/history.aspx?PageIndex=2
It all began last week on Friday (less than a week ago)...
I decided to stub out this article about MSDN and then come back later:
[Original] | Fri, Jan 27 2012 2:59 PM | by: Ed Price |
Part 2: Content (from Italy)
Maybe somebody with more knowledge wanted to take a crack at adding some intro information before I could.
Well, only 24 minutes after I created the article, Luigi Bruno (an MCC) swooped in and added the Introduction and Community Resources sections:
I responded (via comment in the article tab):
Ed Price - MSFT Fri, Jan 27 2012 3:28 PM
Wow, that was instant. =^)
Luigi, do you want to just create the TechNet one too? There's nothing about it yet (like no Overview yet).
Thanks!
Then one minute after Luigi's last change, I retired the stubbyness:
Then two minutes after my last change, Luigi added more sections:
He kept adding more sections on the next day, Saturday:
[Rev 11] | Sat, Jan 28 2012 1:39 PM | by: Luigi Bruno |
Part 3: Going to Germany
Then on Sunday, FZB (a Microsoft Partner) did another amazing thing... he added a link to the German version, which he translated:
[Rev 12] | Sun, Jan 29 2012 2:56 PM | by: FZB |
Scroll down to the bottom to see it:
I responded via the comments in the article tab:
Ed Price - MSFT Sun, Jan 29 2012 4:57 PM
A German version already! Thanks FZB!
Then I made some more tweaks on Sunday and Monday:
Part 4: Going to Italy
Only a few hours later, Luigi had translated the Italian version and added the link to the article:
[Revision #16] | Mon, Jan 30 2012 2:26 PM | by: Luigi Bruno |
The next day, (Tuesday), Luigi added the "See Also" section (that links to other TechNet Wiki articles:
Part 5: Going to Brazil
Four hours later, Luciano Lima (an MVP) added a link to the translated version of that article:
[Current Revision] | Tue, Jan 31 2012 2:43 PM | by: Luciano Lima [MVP] Brazil |
Check out the change at the bottom of the page:
Conclusion
In just four days (including all planning and research), the community decided to write an article into four different languages! We truly went around the world in 4 days (maybe an additional Russian or Chinese version might have helped cover more eastern land, but this is still super impressive)!
German (de-DE)
Italian (it-IT)
Portuguese (pt-BR)
English (en-US)
Special thanks to Luigi, FZB, and Luciano! And, yes, they also translated the TechNet version from Luigi: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7082.microsoft-technet-en-us.aspx
Until next time,