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

[phoebe ayers]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at 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