Anonymous Help WikiLeaks with Crowdsourced Journalism. Crowdsourcing wikileaks content. Wikileaks: Cablegate2: The world comm... WikiLeaks uses Twitter to crowdsource latest releases. What to do when you have been given a plethora of official communiqués and you need to read each one of them to uncover a potential story? The answer: crowdsource. On Tuesday, WikiLeaks released a bumper crop of approximately 35,000 diplomatic cables between the U.S. and 20 other embassies and consulates. The task of wading through them was daunting, yet by outsourcing this task to followers of WikiLeaks on Twitter, who collate their finds under the hash-tag #wlfind, new finds are gradually being broken via the micro-blogging site. The list of contacts on WikiLeaks' online data base shows messages between the UK, Austria, Brussels, Spain, a host of African nations, Vietnam, Iraq and Lebanon, to name a few. So what are the advantages to crowd-sourcing tasks like this?
Obviously, systematically sorting through such a database has its challenges: for instance, where to start? Of course, another key advantage is that WikiLeaks doesn't have to pay people to do this. WikiLeaks crowdsources to pull gems from latest doc dump - Faster Forward. Wikileaks_forum: How Can You Help? : #WLFIN... Wikileaks: Whole crowd-source system... The WikiLeaks Crowdsourcing Begins - Niraj Chokshi - Technology. The task of analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing the 90,000 classified documents publicly released by WikiLeaks yesterday is certain to be crowdsourced as people around the world begin ripping into the newly available information. (For its part, The Guardian has posted a spreadsheet of what they call key "incidents" in Afghanistan -- "coalition forces' attacks on civilians, friendly fire incidents and Afghan forces attacking each other.
") Interpretations of the data may be on their way, but in the meantime the Wikipedia community is hard at work maintaining its entry, as can be seen in the discussion page about the entry itself. Even the transcription of this morning's WikiLeaks press conference is being crowdsourced. WikiLeaks created a Google document from its official account -- Wikileaks.transcripts -- that was shared with 45 users at the time of writing, many of them went to work transcribing the event as soon as it ended. Help Al Jazeera to search WikiLeaks cables - Americas. Asher_Wolf: @melissakchan as @AJEnglis... The_CopyEditor: Al Jazeera English uses Tw... LeakFeed - WikiLeaks API and RSS Feeds - Cablegate XML and JSON API.