The site that’s become the quasi-permanent record of so many politicians’ misdeeds is now old enough to run for Congress itself: Wikipedia turned 25 years old on Thursday.
The collaboratively written and edited free online encyclopedia has grown immensely from its Jan. 15, 2001, beginning as an English-language offshoot of an earlier collaborative effort called Nupedia. As of Thursday afternoon, it spans 7,122,479 articles in English alone (when I started writing this Thursday…

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