At 1:12 a.m. on March 3, 2001, Jimmy Wales created a page for Jesus on a three-month-old site called Wikipedia. "Jesus Christ is a central figure in Christianity," he wrote. The site's co-founder followed with a petition to his fellow first-generation editors: "I fear great controversy if this encyclopedia entry isn't written well, and so I think we should all plunge in and duke it out quickly." Four months later, a user called "Hiram" answered the call, changing "a central figure" to "the central figure" and writing a respectable four-paragraph summary of the Biblical story of Jesus. "Added some details. Not enough, I know," he noted in the comments to his edit.
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