On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:37 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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
Actually, the other way around, as others have stated.
Now that you mention it, I've seen that quote attributed to Gareth Owen before, so that may actually be the origin of it. I think it's quite a bit older than 2006 though.
-- phoebe