"Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. It was 2004, when the site was just three years old, and its information about the government of his home nation of Trinidad and Tobago was a decade out of date. But with little more than his Internet connection, he corrected the page in minutes. That was huge, he says. I got hooked pretty much right away."
"He started editing early enough to have watched Wikipedia's credibility evolve. It began as a site that was strongest in niche topicspop culture and tech were overindexedonly to grow into the Internet's first stop for background on an enormous range of subjects, science included. Whether you want a list of microorganisms that have been exposed to the vacuum of space,"
Ian Ramjohn first edited Wikipedia in 2004, correcting decade-old information about Trinidad and Tobago and becoming an active editor. He worked for more than a decade at Wiki Education after years of contributing articles on Trinidadian history and biological topics. Wikipedia evolved from early strengths in niche topics and pop culture into a widely used first-stop reference across science and many subjects. The site offers quick background on diverse topics, from microorganisms exposed to the vacuum of space to anatomy and planetary geology. The Wikimedia Foundation reported human page views fell about 8 percent during certain months in 2025 compared with 2024, and Kepios analyzed Similarweb data on average monthly visits.
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