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

[geni]

On 17 June 2010 21:37, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."

Well I can search wikipedia-en-l as far back as 13.09.04 and I'm not
coming up with anything. Running google searches for mentions pre 2006
doesn't turn up anything however use explodes in 2006 which is rather
fast if than jan 2006 use is the first.



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geni