On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched.

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Hat tip, 25 Years of Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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History

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Launch and growth

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 {referred to as "Wikipedia Day"}, as a single English language edition with the domain name www.wikipedia.com, and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. The name, proposed by Sanger to forestall any potential damage to the Nupedia name, originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia. Its integral policy of "neutral point of view" arose within its first year. Otherwise, there were initially relatively few rules, and it operated independently of Nupedia. Bomis originally intended for it to be a for-profit business.

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1. Steven Pruitt has written more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pruitt

Steven Pruitt (/ˈpruːɪt/ ⓘ PROO-it; born April 17, 1984), known online as Ser Amantio di Nicolao, is an American Wikipedia editor and administrator with the largest number of edits made to the English Wikipedia, at over 6 million, having made at least one edit to one-third of all articles in the edition. Pruitt first began editing Wikipedia in 2004. He has also created more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles. Pruitt was named as one of the 25 most important influencers on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017.

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2. Wow, that far back!

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3. Someone else is turning 25 in a few days. Not me. NT