[Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

[Jon Harald Søby]

Yes, it's communism that works in theory but not in practice. :-)

2010/6/17 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>

> Isn't the quote backwards? "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only
> works in practice. It could never work in theory"?
>
> -Dan
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
> > "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in theory. It could
> > never work in practice."
> >
> > I've seen that quote attributed to Jimmy, and also to Miikka Ryokas,
> > quoted by Noam Cohen in his NY Times story about Virginia Tech. But
> > neither of them, I think, originated it.
> >
> > Does anyone have a good attribution for first use of that quote?  (I'm
> > using it in a presentation and want to attribute if I can.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sue
> >
> >
> >
> >
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