First Wikipedia Edit

Date: January 15, 2001 • Location: Rome, Italy

The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.

The first edit in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia's database, to HomePage, 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).