Thanks.... "Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9137339/Jimmy-Wales-Wikiped… Chief? Says who? :-) Gordo On 13/03/2012 10:26, Michael Peel wrote: -- Gordon Joly gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals!

Why let the facts get in the way of a snappy headline? ;) Harry ________________________________ From: Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 11:02 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government." - Slashdot On 13 Mar 2012, at 10:35, Gordon Joly wrote: The Telegraph. ;-) Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: What next? Knighthood. Sir Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales.

On 13 March 2012 14:43, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote: Not a British citizen, would have to be Mr Jimmy Donal Wales, KBE (or whatever), like Bob Geldof and Bill Gates. - d.

There are some foreign knighthoods I think. But they are limited by number even more than the British one. Tom Morton On 13 Mar 2012, at 14:49, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote: But that doesn't mean we can't make light of the headline! ;) Btw, I'm pretty sure on has to a British citizen (or possibly even born within the Commonwealth) to be knighted. Harry ------------------------------ *From:* Katie Chan <ktc(a)ktchan.info> *To:* wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 14:44 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government." - Slashdot On 13/03/2012 12:15, Thomas Dalton wrote: wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9137339/Jimmy-Wales-Wikiped… To be fair, if you look below the headline at the top, it all says co-founder. KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Officially allowed or not it doesn't stop the media calling Bob Geldof "Sir Bob". "Sir Jimbo" has quite a nice ring to it so you can guarantee the press would use it. Neil / QuiteUnusual@Wikibooks -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Morton &lt;morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com&gt; Sender: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:48:20 To: HJ Mitchell&lt;hjmitchell(a)ymail.com&gt;om>; wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org<wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government." - Slashdot _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

On 14 March 2012 08:12, Gordon Joly &lt;gordon.joly(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote: I know, a highly original TV series: "Jimbo will (tell you to so) fixit". Charles