Wikipedia Launches

2010

Jimmy Wales in 2010, having co-launched Wikipedia in January 2001 as an open-edit companion to the expert-edited Nupedia. By 2007 it had surpassed Britannica in article count. On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Wikipedia as a free, open-editing companion to the expert-edited Nupedia. By 2007 it surpasses Britannica in article count. By 2015 it has 35 million articles in 290 languages. The single largest collaborative work in human history. The subject dates from 2001; this photograph was taken in 2010.