When Wikileaks Was Still Primarily a Wiki
On July 25th 14 years ago (2010), i.e. months before Cablegate, Wikileaks made this announcement:
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.
The document collection is available on a dedicated webpage.
The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.
We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.
The data is provided in HTML (web), CSV (comma-separated values) and SQL (database) formats, and was rendered into KML (Keyhole Markup Language) mapping data that can be used with Google Earth. Please note that the checksums will change.
So less than 14 years ago the international media based its war journalism on what Wikileaks had published. An insurance file (1.4 GB in size) was included as well, as shown below.
The same trolls who harass and attack my family have done the same to Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staff, even their families. They try to mock Wikileaks for not being a wiki, but it certainly was for many years and the wiki still exists and is functional (e.g. page source for the above). Using a Wiki means that visitors can remotely invoke programs. This makes sites a lot more vulnerable to DDoS attacks. β