WikiLeaks is an international organization that publishes classified documents and leaks to shed light on human rights violations and corruption. It was founded in 2006 and is run by Julian Assange. WikiLeaks aims to promote government transparency and freedom of information. It has published information about human rights abuses in Kenya, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, and US diplomatic cables to widespread attention and impact.

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‫ويكيليكس ) ‪ ،Wikileaks‬ومعناها "تسريبات‬
‫الويكي"( يعتبر موقع ويكيليكس -كما يقول القائمون‬
‫عليه- موقعا للخدمة العامة مخصصا لحماية الشخاص‬
‫الذين يكشفون الفضائح والسرار التي تنال من‬
‫المؤسسات أو الحكومات الفاسدة، وتكشف كل‬
‫النتهاكات التي تمس حقوق النسان أينما وكيفما كانت.‬
‫من أبرز القائمين على الموقع الناشط جوليان أسانغي.‬
‫السم جاء من دمج كلمة "ويكي" والتي تعني الباص‬
‫المتنقل مثل المكوك من وإلى مكان معين، وكلمة‬
‫"ليكس" وتعني بالنجليزية "التسريبات".‬
‫تم تأسيس الموقع في يوليو 7002 وبدأ منذ ذلك الحين بالعمل على نشر المعلومات، وخوض الصراعات والمعارك القضائية‬
‫والسياسية من أجل حماية المبادئ التي قام عليها، وأولها "صدقية وشفافية المعلومات والوثائق التاريخية وحق الناس في خلق تاريخ‬
‫جديد".‬
‫وانطلق الموقع بداية من خلل حوار بين مجموعة من الناشطين على النترنت من أنحاء متفرقة من العالم مدفوعين بحرصهم على‬
‫احترام وحماية حقوق النسان ومعاناته، بدءا من قلة توفر الغذاء والرعاية الصحية والتعليم والقضايا الساسية الخرى.‬
‫ومن هذا المنطلق، رأى القائمون علي الموقع أن أفضل طريقة لوقف هذه النتهاكات هو كشفها وتسليط الضوء عليها.‬
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WikiLeaks is an international new media non-profit organisation
that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents
from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website,
launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.[2] Within a year of
its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than
1.2 million documents.[6] The organisation has described itself as
having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists,
mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the
United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.[2] Julian
Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its
director.[7]
WikiLeaks has won a number of awards, including the 2008
Economist magazine New Media Award.[8] In June 2009, WikiLeaks
and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award
(in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya:
The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",[9] a
report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about
police killings in Kenya.[10] In May 2010, the New York Daily News
listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of "websites that could totally
change the news".[11] Russia extended its support to WikiLeaks and
its founder Julian Assange by issuing a statement which suggested
that Assange should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in the
aftermath of the United States diplomatic cables leak.[12]
In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in
which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by U.S. forces, on a
website called Collateral Murder. 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 for public review.[13] In October, the group released a
package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in
coordination with major commercial media organisations. In
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November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing U.S. State department
diplomatic cables.
WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but
has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication
model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. The site
is available on multiple servers and different domain names
following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance
from different Domain Name System (DNS) providers.[14][15]
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