<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />TIMELINES: [b]Wikipedia goes online for first time on Jan. 15 of what year?[/b] The Epoch Times Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia goes online for the first time. The nonprofit, user-driven online encyclopedia is initially an offshoot of another free encyclopedia project called Nupedia founded by Jimmy Wales. However, Nupedia's reliance on expert ...