Letter to the Editors and Contributors
This week, we’ve got more bloggers, more manpower, and mo’ problems.
New Syndicated Bloggers
We welcomed three new bloggers into the family:
I wrote a blog entry introducing them yesterday, and this brings us up to 26 syndicated bloggers!
Until now, we’ve been able to get away with one monster RSS feed and a big list of bloggers. We’re at the point where we may want to break out the bloggers into groups like we do with our list of SQL Server people on Twitter. In fact, it probably makes sense to use one organization format in both – perhaps even a database!
New Wiki Articles On The Way, Looking for More
A couple of weeks ago, I went through the blogosphere and hand-picked some of my favorite blog posts from other bloggers. I was looking for really good articles and tutorials that could be expanded and turned into full-blown wiki articles. We’ve been working with the bloggers and Quest’s team of content editors, and you can expect to see the results coming over the next week.
After the first round of articles go live, I’d like each section editor to choose one blog post per month that they’d like to turn into a wiki article. It can be from their own blog or someone else’s – as long as it matches the content in your section, we’re interested. We’ll make the whole process as easy as possible for the blogger, for you, and for the editors involved.
Then we’ll also be taking the articles to the next level by using them for podcast fodder too. (I’ve been off the podcast wagon the last few weeks due to a ton of internal work at Quest, but I’ll be getting back on that soon.)
Plagiarism Rears Its Cloned Head
We had a report of plagiarized content in the SQLServerPedia wiki, and I blogged about how we tracked it down. I want to talk about it again, though, as a reference to how we’ll handle incidents like this in the future. I’m sure it’s not going to be the last time, unfortunately – that’s just human nature.
If you have any reason to believe any content (blog or wiki) you see on SQLServerPedia is copied from somewhere else, or vice versa, know your ABC’s:
Email us right away, and we’ll start investigating it immediately. We take authors’ rights very seriously, and we want to make sure we always do the right thing by the community.
Updates Progressing on SQLServerPedia.com
Our new Chief of PHP/MySQL, Brett Epps, is already making progress on our list of improvements. He’s made the first round of code changes, and he’ll be blogging about it here. I’m excited that we’re already making headway.
If there’s anything you’d like to see changed about the site, email the ABC’s and we’d love to talk about it. Brett’s to-do list is in no danger of extinction, but we’re always looking for more ideas.
That’s it – go have a nice long holiday weekend.
