[WikiEN-l] Found on Usenet

[Thomas Dalton]

On 20/01/2008, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Message-ID: <Xns9A2BA4F6679BFwhhvans at news.albasani.net>
>
> "AFAICT, though, the Wikipedia model appears to accept "has been
> posted to Wikipedia by multiple contributors" as constituting
> verification.
>
> Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation.
> It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from
> passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of
> interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about
> something, having a chat."

When was that posted? It was true a few years ago.