This is the best source of the "zeroth law" of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws#Laws_by_others
I believe people have tried to track down the original coiner, but noone really knows. Thanks, Pharos 2010/6/17 Jon Harald Søby <jhs...@gmail.com>: > Yes, it's communism that works in theory but not in practice. :-) > > 2010/6/17 Dan Rosenthal <swatjes...@gmail.com> > >> Isn't the quote backwards? "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only >> works in practice. It could never work in theory"? >> >> -Dan >> On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: >> >> > "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in theory. It could >> > never work in practice." >> > >> > I've seen that quote attributed to Jimmy, and also to Miikka Ryokas, >> > quoted by Noam Cohen in his NY Times story about Virginia Tech. But >> > neither of them, I think, originated it. >> > >> > Does anyone have a good attribution for first use of that quote? (I'm >> > using it in a presentation and want to attribute if I can.) >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Sue >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sue Gardner >> > Executive Director >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > 415 839 6885 office >> > 415 816 9967 cell >> > >> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> > >> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Jon Harald Søby > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
