Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began ...
TIME takes a look back at the revolutionary online encyclopedia’s milestones in the 15 years since its first entry. This article has been updated from its original publication date, Jan. 13, 2011, ...
Wikipedia editor and self-professed “bird geek” DocTree spends most of his time on the world’s largest encyclopedia editing the pages for long-dead ornithologists. So it was somewhat unusual when, in ...
A few days after September 11, 2001, as lawmakers were approving a declaration to use military force and people downtown were picking through the rubble, someone in Brooklyn stared bleary-eyed into ...