First Wikipedia edit

History of identifying Wikipedia's first edit

The first edit in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia's database, to HomePage (Wikipedia's home page), was made on January 15, 2001, at 19:27 (UTC), and stated in its entirety "This is the new WikiPedia!" In 2019, co-founder Jimmy Wales said that there had been earlier edits that could not be recovered and that the first words were the text "Hello, World!".

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The first edit in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia's database, to HomePage (Wikipedia's home page), was made on January 15, 2001, at 19:27 (UTC), and stated in its entirety "This is the new WikiPedia!" In 2019, co-founder Jimmy Wales said that there had been earlier edits that could not be recovered and that the first words were the text "Hello, World!". In December 2021, Wales announced that he would sell a website containing a re-creation of this first edit to the highest bidder as a non-fungible token (NFT).

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