Deep Dives Research Challenge | The Wikileaks Archive
“WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote them and we obtain more.”
-Julian Assange
- The Wikileaks archive contains well over 10 million documents
- Wikileaks Docs have been cited in over 28,000 academic papers and US court filings
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The Wikileaks Index
Back in late 2016, Wikileaks revealed the existence of a little known index that combines onsite and offsite resources relating to Wikileaks material. This invaluable tool helps make the mammoth amount of documents available on the Wikileaks website more accessible and systematic.
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/
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The Wikileaks Archive Challenge
- Search the Wikileaks archive at wikileaks.org
- Find an overlooked, underrated, underreported or obscure leak/ email/ cable/document/ court filing on a topic that interests you.
- Build a post around your findings
- Provide additional sources to make your case and strengthen your position
- Explain the significance of the leak and why it’s an important piece of news that should be communicated to the public.
Rules
- Help spread the word, resteem this post
- Limited to 1 contest entry per account
- Submissions must be made in a separate post (not in the comments)
- Submissions must be posted before the deadline (UTC - 12pm Thursday July 5th, 2018)
- This research challenge is open for two weeks!
- Use the lead tag “deepdives”
- Your entry must include references to a document/documents found in the Wikileaks archive
- Provide a link to the specific document or page
- Make an attempt to keep your post concise and to the point
- You may leave a link to your entry in the comments below
- Please, do not plagiarize the work of others
Note: Longer entries with multiple links and references does not equate to higher quality. Clear and concise work with a handful of supporting sources is preferable.
Winners
The Winning Post Should
Meet the rules criteria
Winners will be announced 48hrs after the submission deadline
Well researched
Fully sourced
Clearly presented
Original Content (not widely reported on in the media)
Significance should be clearly articulated
3 Outstanding contributions will be acknowledged
Prizes
• Liquid SBD earned by the original contest post will make up the total rewards
o Example: 100 SBD – 1st place = 50% // 2nd = 30% // 3rd = 20%
• Bonus @v4vapid & @ausbitbank upvotes and resteems for exceptional and/or original contributions
• SP earned from challenge announcements and the winner’s announcements will go to the community account (Deep Dives)
Contributions
Good luck and happy digging!
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"Note: Longer entries with multiple links and references does not equate to higher quality. Clear and concise work with a handful of supporting sources is preferable." You forgot unless your AK I am the exception! I am kidding I may give this a go this weekend.
There are rare exceptions for sure AK ;)
what is AK please?
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Here is my entry...
https://steemit.com/deepdives/@palikari123/deep-dives-research-challenge-zunzuneo-usaid-funded-social-network-for-regime-change
My Entry.
https://steemit.com/deepdives/@yungchief/deep-dives-research-challenge-obama-the-us-congress-and-the-war-against-gadhafi
Been a busy week with some moving during a heatwave, but I did one on The 'Collateral Murder' Massacre.
my entry:
Crossmatch: the biggest breach in privacy sensitive data ever
I wish I had were able to submit something to every promotion you guys run, I did get a good one going for deepdives though. I am a fan of reading Wikileaks and was happy to get back into it for IW! Hope you like it ;)
https://steemit.com/deepdives/@gregorypatrick/cia-operation-cherry-blossom-wikileaks-files-shows-anyone-who-wants-to-learn-to-hack-wifi-deeo-dives-research
I wish I could enter again, there's something shocking very close to us at the moment .. involving a wikileaks file, but I'm too scared diving into it. Because precautions will be made too.. maybe if it's solved and will be on some news I am not to scared anymore.. My hands are itching though.. Unbelievable that this is possible, but then again, our home country Holland does seem to make a mess out of everything..
Great! I will surely be participating in this challenge!
I apologize if this is stupid question, but I'm not fully familiar with content of Wikileaks documents. I heard about Wikileaks million times, but never gone deeply into research about it, so I don't know what kind of material is in there. For example, do that documents have info that show Roman Catholic Church is deeply corrupted organization?
The Wikileaks site has it's own search query, if you enter 'catholic church' you will certainly get thousands of hits.
Refine your search terms to narrow your focus.
Here's an interesting title from Wikileaks -
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/89/895875_catholic-church-grapples-with-donations-from-mexican-cartels.html
have fun!
Thanks for the info! Don't know why, but I'm really passionate about exposing Catholic Church. I will do my best to dig up some info.
Sorry, this time didn't have much time for this research. I will do my best to check this link, so I would understand better how to navigate thru Wikileaks documents and write quality article for one of next Deep Dives projects.