On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the phrase in a 1988 sociology paper:
http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1/1/19
I'd call it a pretty obvious play on words, though, so I really doubt we got it from that.
Anyone got a complete wikien-l archive to grovel through?
- d.
going back that far it might be on wikipedia-l, I think, and Joseph Reagle has done quite a bit of work analyzing that -- maybe he can help. We're looking for the orgins of the quote: "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in theory. It could never work in practice."
:) -- phoebe