A great Wiki article provides one or more nuggets of information needed by the reader based on the title and first paragraph. If you promise to describe how to deploy a certain feature in a particular environment, your article should concisely and succinctly describe the environment and preconditions, list the steps, and describe the end state with diagrams, videos, and other supporting material as needed so that the reader can complete the task.
To create a great Wiki article:
If you fill a need, readers will find your article.
Your article could fill many different types of needs. Here are a few types of needs that you might find:
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Ana Paula de Almeida edited Revision 35. Comment: Included link: User xp guidelines
Ana Paula de Almeida edited Revision 33. Comment: Included: Design principles
FZB edited Revision 32. Comment: spacing
Zoltán Horváth edited Revision 30. Comment: typo
Peter Geelen - MSFT edited Revision 29. Comment: Added NL-NL (Dutch)
Scott Somohano edited Revision 28. Comment: In 'To create a great Wiki article' list, added details about linking and keywords.
tonysoper_MSFT edited Revision 26. Comment: + sugg cox site
yottun8 edited Revision 25. Comment: Added Japanese version.
Horizon_Net edited Revision 24. Comment: added language tag in title
Luciano Lima [MVP] Brazil edited Revision 21. Comment: Added link to the article Wiki: Como Fazer um Excelente Artigo no Wiki (pt-BR).
Fixed, http://aka.ms/ninja is back in space!
the "To find an idea of an article to write" link is throwing a 404 error. Does someone have an updated link?
Yagmoth555 edited Revision 19. Comment: added the fr-FR link!
Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert edited Revision 18. Comment: spacing
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 14. Comment: Inserted horizontal lines.