No. Salting mostly prevents rainbow tables from being very useful, but rainbow tables are questionably useful anyway with modern hardware. (Obviously depending on the type of the hash)
>It would have been impossible to use a brute-force attack or even a combined dictionary to crack a phrase of that length. But because the phrase was contained in this Wikipedia article, it wound up in a word list that allowed Chrysannthou to crack the phrase in a matter of minutes.
The attack described is to find potential passwords on the web or somewhere, compute the hash, see if it matches. Rainbow tables aren't any part of this process.
If he took the word list to run login attempts against a server (or a local endpoint checking the leaked database) it's more of a dictionary attack.
Same result, different ways to get there. If you're able to run your cracker locally against a leaked db, it probably doesn't really matter.