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WikiLeaks

The logo of WikiLeaks, an hourglass with one globe leaking

to the second
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Web address

WikiLeaks.org[1]

Slogan

"We open governments"[2]

Commercial?

No[3]

Type of site

Document archive and disclosure

Registration

None

Available in

English, but the documents are written in

various others

Owner

Sunshine Press

Created by

Julian Assange

Launched

4 October 2006; 9 years ago[4]

Alexa rank

Current status

15,300 (May 2015)[5]

Online

WikiLeaks /wkiliks/ is an international, non-profit,[3] journalistic[6][7][8] organisation, that

publishes secret information, news leaks,[9] and classified media from anonymous sources.[3][10] Its
website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organization Sunshine Press,[11] claimed a database of
more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch.[12] Julian Assange, an Australian
Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.[13] Kristinn
Hrafnsson, Joseph Farrell, and Sarah Harrison are the only other publicly known and
acknowledged associates of Julian Assange.[14] Hrafnsson is also a member of Sunshine Press
Productions along with Assange, Ingi Ragnar Ingason, and Gavin MacFadyen.[15][16]
The group has released a number of significant documents that have become front-page news
items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the
Afghanistan war and a report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya.[17] In April 2010,
WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi
journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral
Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of
more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public.
[18]
In October 2010, the group released a set of almost 400,000