"As the popular joke goes, "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.""
— Wikipedia

January 1, 1970

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Miikka Ryokas (User:Kizor), quoted by Noam Cohen, "The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia", The New York Times (23 April 2007); the earliest known variant is from the user page of User:Gareth Owen (20 January 2006): "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.")