Over on the council, we have these focus thingies... TechNet Wiki Community Council: Areas of Focus
Lately Richard has been leading us in Focus Area #2...
2. Portal Growth - Richard Mueller (& Yagmoth, Ed Price, Naomi)
- Focus: The Adoption and Evangelism of Wiki Portals.
- One specific best practice that affects navigation is Portal Growth.
- Are all the right technologies and articles represented on the portals?
- Do we have the best story for navigation from the portals?
- Do we need to add more portals?
- Should we cross-link portals better?
- Example: We need to update all the portals with links to current content.
- Example: We need to cross-link the portals better.
We were making so many portals that I started this tag: TechNet Wiki Portal
And then Richard put together a portal portal for us...
Wiki: Portal of TechNet Wiki Portals
We divided the portal sections by technology, but we also have...
General Technology
- Wiki: Development Portal
- Wiki: Gaming Portal
- Wiki: Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands Portal
- Wiki: Portal of TechNet Wiki Glossaries
- Wiki: Survival Guides Portal
That's where the portals actually include all the technologies and they are more about something that applies to many techs, like Troubleshooting articles.
And then this is also an interesting section:
Other Subjects
Those are mostly like portals around Microsoft social technologies. And User Groups. =^)
Anyway, the bottom section on the page is really cool... all our international portals...
Non-English Language Portals
General Technology
- Wiki: Yönetim Portal (tr-TR)
- Wiki: 管理ポータル (ja-JP)
- Wiki: Portale Tecnologie (it-IT)
- Wiki: 技術ポータル (ja-JP)
- Wiki: Teknolojiler Portalı (tr-TR)
- Wiki: Portal de tecnologías (es-ES)
- Wiki: Cloud Portal (de-DE)
- Wiki: クラウド ポータル(ja-JP)
SQL Server
Development
- Wiki: Portal para Desarrolladores (es-ES)
- Wiki: 開発ポータル (ja-JP)
- Entwickler Portal (de-DE)
- ASP.NET Portal (de-DE)
Other Subjects
And Durval even translated this portal article!
Others Languages
So go give this article a look through, check out the portals, and make them better (or don't; nobody's forcing you until we are)...
Wiki: Portal of TechNet Wiki Portals
What goes up, must go Wiki.
- Ninja Ed