Hi David, I do believe that you received recently the letter sent by Wikipedians group "owner" Klaas Van Buiten
________________________ LinkedIn Groups Group: Wikipedians Subject: Announcement from Wikipedians Hi everybody, We have an overlap with a much larger group called Wikipedia Users Group. I've seen many of you, including me :-) are yet a member. If some of you want to keep this one alive as well, I'll respect this. If not I will delete this group after everybody is accepted in this one: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=39542&trk=anet_ug_grppro Posted By Klaas Van Buiten ________________________ This letter illustrates the way to consolidate the LinkedIn groups and I guess is there any other way to do that. I'm quite surprised that you're sort of suspicious about http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=39542 as the group "owner" is Jimmy Wales and this name should sound familiar to many of us (his LinkedIn profile claims "I am the founder of Wikia, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. I currently serve as the Chair Emeritus and Board Member of the Wikimedia Foundation and Chair of Wikia, Inc.") :) . I guess that "running it for “networking,”" is not well phrased explanation sent sometime by Steven Burda, who is group manager ("the guy running it" in your wording). Interestingly that http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=39542 is the group that Wikipedians group should be consolidated with according to above mentioned Klaas letter. As to your proposal to create special wiki page to coodinate the consolidation process it can help Regards, Pavlo Shevelo Kyiv, Ukraine On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:47 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a "Wikipedians" group which was apparently started for > "networking" (which in practice seemed to mean spam blasts), per > > http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2009/04/16/wikipedians-on-linkedin/ > > But there's at least a couple more groups which are sincere and were > just put together by Wikipedians (i.e. not Foundation-official), e.g. > > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=104879 > > I have no idea about how to consolidate LinkedIn groups, but for the > moment I suggest it would be an idea to make a wiki page (presumably > on meta) for these. If there isn't one already. Same on other social > networks. Anyone? > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
