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

[geni]

On 17 June 2010 21:14, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>> Isn't the quote backwards? "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. It could never work in theory"?
>>
> It can be formulated various ways. Raul's Laws has yet another variation:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws
>
> I'd note that in the history of that page, it dates back to March 2006
> and even then the original author was listed as unknown. That makes it
> exactly the sort of quote that is easily misattributed to Winston
> Churchill or Abraham Lincoln.
>
> --Michael Snow

"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In
theory, it's a total disaster"

goes back to jan 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gareth_Owen&oldid=35978744

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geni