Is there any connection with WikiLeaks and Wikipedia?
By venkit
@venkit (2955)
India
6 responses
@jshekhar (1562)
• India
8 Dec 10
As far as I know, there is absolutely no link between the two. Personally, I do think that wikileads founder Julian Assange borrowed the "wiki" part of the name from wikipedia to get initial attention. However, considering the kind of work wikileaks has been doing lately, I don't think the results would have been any different had the name been something completely different than "wikileaks".
@tck_01 (96)
•
8 Dec 10
There is no connection between Wikileaks and Wikipedia. WIkileaks is for profit and used to be part of amazon, whereas WIkipedia is a non-for profit organization. Wikileaks does not invite users to provide its content, whereas Wikipedia does. Wikileaks just borrowed the word Wiki from Wikipedia, because of its ability to provide real time leaks, just like Wikipedia provides real time encyclopedia content.
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
8 Dec 10
Nope there's no connection. Nowadays there are quite a number of sites using this 'Wiki' heading but it's just a name. There's a difference between WikiLeaks and WikiPedia. I think it should be the profit difference if I'm not wrong.
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