Comments on: Wikipedians on LinkedIn.

By: Waldir

Waldir — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:10:16 +0000

Indeed, many of the wikipedia-related groups on linkedin seem to be owned by Jimmy Wales now, including the original (and largest) “evil” group. I wonder if he asked the group owners individually, or requested that to LinkedIn’s admins. In any case, I think this is an excellent opportunity to merge the groups! I joined the largest group, and will suggest that sometime soon.

Btw, the logo for the “evil” group is set to a rubik’s cube, I wonder why (especially since many other groups use the wikipedia logo

By: Piotr Konieczny

Piotr Konieczny — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:10:52 +0000

The “evil” group seems to be owned by Jimbo… or is this a hoax?

By: Klaas van Buiten

Klaas van Buiten — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:33:07 +0000

Great idea, David. It’s been some time I was on Meta. I have very few influence there. I’m just a simple translator en-nl and nl-en.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:42:23 +0000

Good question! The above-warned group was not a sincere Wikipedians group, but there are at least a couple that are sincere … we need an on-wiki list somewhere on Meta, I’d suggest.

By: Klaas van Buiten

Klaas van Buiten — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:53:47 +0000

My group was suspended as well and succeeded to get it back online with the help of some officials. Just to keep an eye on it I stay memeber of some more groups.

Question is: What is the most official group?

By: David Shankbone

David Shankbone — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:06:07 +0000

I’m registered there, but I never go - I have so much trouble keeping up with my Facebook. Love your blog, David.

By: llywrch

llywrch — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:39:53 +0000

I just had another look at my Wikipedia group, & there’s a note stating “Group status suspended” — which explains part of what David encountered. However, this is the first I heard that it was not active. (Another LinkedIn group I belong to whose activity is about as low — ” 10th Mountain Division Descendants” — is active & apparently okay.)

Geoff

By: Waldir

Waldir — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:26:58 +0000

Unfortunately that group has the first mover advantage. I too initially joined it for being the largest, then left it afterwards.

OTOH, there are way too many wikipedia/wikimedia-related groups on LinkedIn; I’ve suggested before to merge the ones that obviously overlap in scope, but it seems people don’t care much. Here’s the link to that discussion (in the Wikimedia Foundation group), I hope it works for you: http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=158280&discussionID=267258

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:51:16 +0000

And I couldn’t connect to your group either just now … when not logged in it said the group was no longer active, when logged in it says “There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request.” I assume all is less than well right now …

By: llywrch

llywrch — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:41:37 +0000

David, for some reason I couldn’t connect to the “official” LinkedIn Wikipedian group.

On the other hand, there is another InkedIn Wikipedia group run by Wikipedians here — although so far it’s not been very active. (Pete & I just have not had the time to do much with it.)

Geoff

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:25:10 +0000

You can leave the spammy group by going to the page http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration (while logged in) and clicking “Leave group” link under “Wikipedia Users Group”.