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 33. Comment: Included: Design principles
Ana Paula de Almeida edited Revision 35. Comment: Included link: User xp guidelines
Eric Battalio MSFT edited Original. Comment: added Wiki to the title
Eric Battalio MSFT edited Revision 1. Comment: initial list
Tony Soper_MSFT edited Revision 2. Comment: Added penultimate bullet point re asking for user behavior you want.
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 4. Comment: Added "See Also" link, made a few minor edits, and added "Connect the articles" bullet.
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: Added "Types of Articles" section.
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 6. Comment: Edited links.
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: Fixed links.
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 8. Comment: Fixed links.
the "To find an idea of an article to write" link is throwing a 404 error. Does someone have an updated link?
Fixed, http://aka.ms/ninja is back in space!
You mean: DON'T do this.
wow :) great article
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