The oldest Wikipedia entries of the 2020 Presidential candidates

A fun way of "going back in time" is looking at the oldest Wikipedia entries for famous people. The very first versions of their Wikipedia entries can be found in the "View History" tab, and then clicking "oldest." For this blog post, I'll show screencaps of the very first Wikipedia pages for the 2020 Presidential candidates, in the order that their pages were created. (One caveat: If a Wikipedia page was created and then deleted, and then a page was created later on the same subject, the earlier (deleted) page would not be part of the current page's history. But let's assume that none of the candidates had earlier versions of their pages deleted.)

Which of the current candidates was the first to have a Wikipedia entry? The answer is a bit surprising: It was Michael Bloomberg, whose Wikipedia page was created on Feb. 11, 2002.

(As a point of comparison, Wikipedia itself began in January 2001 and Hillary Clinton's entry was created on March 7, 2001.  Her first entry is shown below.)

The next 2020 candidate to get their own Wikipedia page was (not surprisingly) Joe Biden. His was created on Nov. 9, 2002, and here's what it looked like at that time.

The next oldest Wikipedia entry for the candidates is Elizabeth Warren. However, the entry is simply a redirect for Betty Ford, and was created on August 6, 2003. Warren would not receive her own Wikipedia page until 2004 (see further down this thread for that).

Next we have Bernie Sanders. His Wikipedia page was created on Nov. 9, 2003 -- exactly one year after Joe Biden's Wikipedia page was created. Presumably this coincidence has to do with the election cycle, because the Wikipedia entries for Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg will also be created on Nov. 9 (in 2005 and 2011 respectively).

A month after Bernie's page is created, the Wikipedia entry for Mike Pence is created on Dec. 7, 2003.

Surprisingly, Donald Trump's Wikipedia page was not created until January 9, 2004. Most people would assume that Trump had a Wikipedia page before Pence did, but not so.

Just as a note of comparison, the Wikipedia page for Mitt Romney was created the very next day: January 10, 2004.

Elizabeth Warren's Wikipedia page (really about her this time, not Betty Ford) begins on March 13, 2004.

Later that same year, on Oct. 13, 2004, the Wikipedia page for former candidate Marianne Williamson was created.

The Wikipedia entry for Amy Klobuchar was created on March 12, 2005 by a user who wrote of being "shocked that none existed previously."

Also in 2005, Wikipedia pages were created for a few of the 2020 candidates who have dropped out of the race. One of them was Cory Booker, whose page was created on June 28, 2005.

Kamala Harris' Wikipedia page was created on Nov. 9, 2005.

Julian Castro's Wikipedia page was created on Dec. 31, 2005.

Beto O'Rourke's Wikipedia page first appeared on June 16, 2006 and has a little message from Beto himself at the bottom.

That same day (June 16, 2006) Beto's Wikipedia page was updated, expanded, and... well, it looks a little strange.

Two of the current candidates had their Wikipedia pages debut in 2010. By now Wikipedia had become a lot more polished and these entries are longer right from the start (so much so that my screencaps only show the tops of them, not the whole article). Tulsi Gabbard's Wikipedia page was created on Feb. 24, 2010.

And Tom Steyer's Wikipedia page was created later that year, on July 6, 2010.

And last but not least, we have Pete Buttigieg, whose Wikipedia page was finally created on November 9, 2011.

History is still being written as we speak, so the entries of the above individuals will continue to be updated as time goes on.  And time only knows what the future holds for each of them, and the country as well.