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The following original text is preserved, including its selection/vote claims. Preservation is not independent verification of every assertion.
Why: A site publishing secret documents that shook governments.
What to preserve: major leaks, the debate over secrecy
Year and origin: 2006 · International (founded by Australian Julian Assange)
Vote: 4/9 (historian 2 · future kid 1 · curator 1)
Learn more: WikiLeaks on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
WikiLeaks describes itself as a multinational media organization and library founded by Julian Assange in 2006. A 2013 Committee to Protect Journalists report provides a different vantage point: it discusses reporting based on diplomatic cables and military records, while distinguishing news organizations' editorial omissions from unredacted publication that exposed individuals' identities. That contrast makes the selection culturally important beyond a founder's biography. A future archive could examine how readers evaluated documents, how journalists added context and how publishers weighed public-interest claims against potential harm. Preserving the debate need not mean reproducing sensitive files or treating every claim within a leaked record as established fact.
Creator/community: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks collaborators; sources, journalists, readers and people named in documents Place/era: International publication network; organization dates its founding to 2006, with major document-publication debate in 2010–2011
Context and limits
WikiLeaks' self-description is attributed, not an independent guarantee of authentication or security. CPJ's report addresses a historical period, not the present legal status of any person. No raw leak, private identity, secret credential or operational submission instructions are reproduced. Archival value does not remove privacy, safety or copyright considerations.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://wikileaks.org/What-is-WikiLeaks.html
- https://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
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Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0960
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