Talk:WikiLeaks

Skip to table of contents

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the WikiLeaks article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article was nominated for deletion on January 12, 2007. The result of the discussion was Speedy Keep.

The subject of this article is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless. Feel free to try to improve the article, but don't take it personally if your changes are reversed; instead, come here to the talk page to discuss them. Content must be written from a neutral point of view. Include citations when adding content and consider tagging or removing unsourced information.

This page is not a forum for general discussion about WikiLeaks. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about WikiLeaks at the Reference desk.

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Journalism B‑class Top‑importance

	Journalism portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Journalism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of journalism on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.JournalismWikipedia:WikiProject JournalismTemplate:WikiProject JournalismJournalism articles
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Internet culture B‑class High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture articles

B

This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Internet culture To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : View all requested internet culture articles
Expand : Pick an article from here or here
Photo : Category:Internet culture articles needing images
Stubs : All stubs are located here
Other : Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}}
- See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Libraries B‑class Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Libraries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Libraries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LibrariesWikipedia:WikiProject LibrariesTemplate:WikiProject LibrariesLibraries articles
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Cryptography: Computer science B‑class

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cryptography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Cryptography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CryptographyWikipedia:WikiProject CryptographyTemplate:WikiProject CryptographyCryptography articles
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computer science.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Sweden B‑class Low‑importance

	Sweden portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sweden, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sweden-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SwedenWikipedia:WikiProject SwedenTemplate:WikiProject SwedenSweden articles
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Archives

Archive 1	Archive 2	Archive 3
Archive 4	Archive 5	Archive 6
Archive 7	Archive 8	Archive 9
Archive 10

This page has archives. Sections older than 14 days may be automatically archived by .

The anti-Wikileaks project

Interesting overview:

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/10/the-return-of-aaron-barr-victim-of-embarrassing-hacking-now-cybersecurity-chief-at-large-federal-con.html

Yug (talk) 22:39, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Spy files

Just a heads up of a new release that came out from WikiLeaks and its associated partners:

[1]*[2]*[3]*[4]
[5]*[6]*[7]*[8]

They had a press conference recently but some of the above links are from a few days earlier. Cheers!Calaka (talk) 13:33, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: Note that WSJ had this story a week or so ago but today seems the day when the actual documents are being released? [9] Cheers!Calaka (talk) 13:36, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A few more: [10], [11], [12], [13], [14] Calaka (talk) 14:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Collaborating for GA?

Interested? Does anyone want to try to get this to GA/FA status? I've done a few GAs and FAs, but not ones related to the Internet or journalism, but I'm willing to give it a go. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:15, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Yeah I think it would be an interesting exercise. The easy aspect about this topic is that there are a lot of articles about it available on the web (maybe too much available!).Calaka (talk) 03:42, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

True There is a lot of perspective, so it would be difficult for me to get a grip on it... I've never worked on an article about journalism or a website before, so it would be challenging, but I think rewarding. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Breach of NPOV?

I apologize if I am doing this wrong, but it's my first time trying this. I think the last part of the first paragraph of the Wikileaks article may not be neutral in tone. 24.246.11.219 (talk) 01:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean "Hrafnsson is also a member of the company Sunshine Press Productions along with Assange, Ingi Ragnar Ingason and Gavin MacFadyen"? Belorn (talk) 11:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was refering to "The Guardian argued that WikiLeaks was to blame since they gave the impression that the decryption key was temporal (something not possible for a file decryption key)", but that too, I suppose. 24.246.11.219 (talk) 22:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikileaks' history to be included?

As I remember, at past, wikileaks use wiki to construct its site as shown in http://web.archive.org/web/20071130203851/http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks , and in this article, this is not mentioned, would it be better to also include this part as its history? p.s. I can't remember much about wikileaks at that time and unable to search for info of wikileaks at that time... C933103 (talk) 19:30, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Graham Nash song

sorry if i upset the ppls of wiki, (thanks to HiLo48 for directing me here) I am unsure why a song about the alleged file leaker of wiki leaks, Bradley Manning, would be seen as unneccessary. but to make my arguement, the song is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD0t4gNGx-8 and if you needed additional confirmation the song exists and is about Manning you can find it at Nash's site http://grahamnash.com/almost-gone hope this clears everything up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.70.190 (talk) 07:09, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The song's significance in the context of WikiLeaks as a whole (as opposed to the context of Mr. Manning) is somewhat questionable. --Cybercobra (talk) 07:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Currently Mr Manning is the sole accused in leaking the files. Which I beleive, until the trial is finished, makes him for all intents and purposes the face of WikiLeaks. A song about Manning is synonymous with WikiLeaks until the trial linking him to WikiLeaks absolves, or condemns, him of his alleged crimes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.70.190 (talk) 07:49, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]