[Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

[Andreas Kolbe]

Perhaps we should write a guideline that editors should please wait with
the Wikileaks articles until there is secondary-source coverage, and that
they should sum up *that coverage* rather than the original document.

If Wikisource should decide they can host the original documents, it is 
always possible to provide a link there.

This article started out as a simple copy of the Wikileaks document:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Critical_Foreign_Dependencies_Initiative&oldid=401201163#cite_ref-2

I'm sure editors will create similar articles on other Wikileaks releases.

A.


--- On Sun, 12/12/10, Cool Hand Luke <User.CoolHandLuke at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Cool Hand Luke <User.CoolHandLuke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material
> To: "fredbaud" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sunday, 12 December, 2010, 17:27
> Exactly right.  Using the
> documents themselves prior to secondary analysis
> is a WP:PSTS problem in the first place.  Once
> secondary sources have
> analyzed them, the sourcing problem will be resolved, and
> any secrecy
> concern will be even more moot than it is already.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>wrote:
> 
> > We might suppress a leak made directly into Wikipedia,
> for example
> > information about a troop movement, but once something
> has been published
> > on a thousand mirrors there is little point. I don't
> think links on
> > Wikipedia to documents which remain classified is a
> good idea. The
> > disclosed primary documents will come under intense
> analysis in reliable
> > sources; those analyses are notable and properly
> included in Wikipedia
> > despite their source in classified primary documents.
> Copying a list of
> > potential military targets from a classified document
> would seem out of
> > bounds unless a source generally considered reliable
> has widely
> > distributed the list.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > User:Fred Bauder
> >
> > > This might need some eyes and attention:
> > >
> > >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents>
> > >
> > > It concerns Wikipedia articles reproducing the
> content of the recent
> > > Wikileaks releases, notably
> > >
> > >
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Critical_Foreign_Dependencies_Initiative
> > >
> > > Andreas
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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