![]() ![]() Look at all the junk that they are working on. ![]() Our initial idea was: Look at all those people editing Wikipedia. ![]() That very interestingly didn't happen – quite an extraordinary thing. It was our hope initially, because we had vastly more material than we could possibly go through, that if we just put it out there, people would summarize it themselves. However, Assange initially did intend to model Wikileaks after Wikipedia's collaborative processes, according to his remarks at a symposium at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on April 18 ( video, from 36:30, or on YouTube), where he explained what made him change his mind: He observed that while Wikileaks was running on the MediaWiki software, all participatory functions of the software seemed to be disabled, along with those providing transparency (history and recent changes). Julian Assange (2009)Although Wikileaks' founders were sometimes quoted as having "no ties" with Wikipedia at the time, there was widespread confusion between the two, as noted by German Wikipedian Avatar, who described a particularly egregious example in his blog: A commentary published in the January 25, 2007, print edition of Die Welt, one of Germany's major broadsheet newspapers, which called Wikileaks "the youngest branch" of Wikipedia, and went on to explain that "the Internet encyclopedists with their exhibitionist will for subversion now want to spread inaccessible, allegedly suppressed knowledge, too", which "perfectly matches the Wikipedians' weird image, who always communicate the image of being a grassroots democracy in their content, but often appear to be anarchist or even chaotic in their methods." (After Avatar complained to the newspaper, the online version was quickly corrected.)īack to 2010: In a post on his "The Wikipedian" blog some weeks ago, titled " WikiLeaks: No Wiki, Just Leaks", William Beutler ( User:WWB) speculated "that the site was so named to borrow from the credibility enjoyed (and earned) by Wikipedia". To this day, they belong to Wales' company Wikia, although they now appear to be used by Wikileaks in addition to its main site .Īround that time, Wikileaks described itself as "an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." According to internal emails published by Wikileaks co-founder John Young on his own leaking site, Cryptome, the Wikileaks founders deliberately used Wikipedia's fame to draw attention to themselves among "1000 other organizations jostling for time" at the January 2007 World Social Forum in Kenya, where Assange lived around that time: "even those can't but help hearing about the wikpedia." On January 3, 2007, (the day of the first public report of Wikileaks' existence), the domains, , and were registered, apparently by Wales out of concern about the name. ![]() He did say, however that he thinks "the issue of having to protect our name is something I can anticipate coming up again in the future."īoth Wales' concern and the public confusion between the two "web behemoths" ( The Independent) are nothing new. He said it is not the Wikimedia Foundation's "style" to "come to blows with Wikileaks in court". In an interview with The Independent, Wales said he was "fed up" with the volume of e-mails he was receiving that attacked him for "putting the lives of thousands of US troops at risk", but that his reaction was to "just roll my eyes, chuckle to myself and tell them they've got the wrong man." Somehow in agreement with Assange, who had responded to Gardner's statements by pointing out that "wiki" was around a long time before "Wikipedia", Wales said that he could not just copyright the word 'wiki', because he did not want to prevent other people from starting wikis. |5=WikiLeaks and Wikipedia Google–WP collaboration to translate health information.īy Wackywace, Tilman Bayer, and Tony1 Difficult relationship between WikiLeaks and Wikipedia The logo of WikileaksĪs reported in last week's "In the news", the continuing media attention for Julian Assange's website WikiLeaks (which recently published thousands of documents revealing what The Guardian newspaper called "the true Afghan war") has had an adverse effect on Jimmy Wales and Sue Gardner who both reported that they frequently had to deal with people who mistakenly assume that they are involved in Wikileaks.Listed by display format, with the following parameters: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost//Technology report) in various different formats. This is used to link or display a Signpost section (e.g. ![]()
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