On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard <dger...@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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l