Wikileaks: Crowdsourcing Cables and Coverage of the Cables. Nothing Else. Wiki

What this Wiki Is
Wikileaks Crowdsourcing is a wiki intended to do exactly three things:


 * 1) Crowdsource cables that haven't yet received any media attention (find one, write a summary, a blog post, anything. Then link to it here)
 * 2) Crowdsource coverage of the cables. What are Tunisians writing about the Tunisian cables?
 * 3) Add context to the cables and the coverage: who wrote the cables? (This is what the "Diplomats" category is for.) What's the angle of the media source you've found? How is that news source regarded in the country of origin? (This is what the "Media outlet" category is for.)

Despite complaints that the Wikileaks revelations have received comparatively little media attention, the idea is to bring attention to what has been written in the media, on the Internet, anywhere about the US embassy cables. You get the idea.

The mission is to create a usable index of all the existing coverage of the cables, and to add to that coverage; to see what has been written and to make that accessible.

What this Wiki is NOT

 * Any "meta" coverage of Wikileaks itself or the personalities involved. This is a space for dealing with the content and context of the cables, period.

Confused?
Go to the How Do I Start? page.

Useful Tools

 * NewsRack, which lets you set up a taxonomy with filtering rules to filter news. Here are the results for WikiLeaks . Note: at the moment it searches mainly Indian newspaper feeds + some number of US newspaper feeds + no blogs at this time). But, it can be extended to track any number of rss feeds (and hence blogs, and other missing news feeds). The taxonomy can also be tweaked further -- this is just a quick first pass based on http://memex.naughtons.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wikileaks_mindmap-v2.jpg


 * CableWiki

Browse coverage by…

 * Country of origin
 * Media outlet
 * Diplomat