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This is a timeline of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organization that publishes news leaks.^[1]

Big picture

Time period	Development summary
1990s	Julian Assange starts hacking systems and is punished with the first cybercrime charges. By the end of the decade, Assange registers `leaks.org`.
2000s	`wikiLeaks.org` website launches in the mid-decade. Collaboration with The Guardian begins. WikiLeaks starts being recognized with awards.
2010s	Massive information leaks happen at the beginning of the decade,^[2] as well as the Bradley Manning case. The organization receives many awards in the 2010s. However, condemnation rises in several countries. In 2016, WikiLeaks intervention disrupts the 2016 United States elections and more precisely the Democrats political campaign. WikiLeaks publishes the biggest ever leak of CIA documents, revealing the agency’s hacking and surveillance techniques.^[3]

Full timeline

Year	Month and date	Event type	Details
1971		Prelude	United States military analyst Daniel Ellsberg releases the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. This study would be Julian Assange inspiration for WikiLeaks.^[4]
1971	July 3	Prelude	Julian Assange is born in the province of Queensland, Australia.^[5]^[6]
1990s		Prelude	Julian Assange and other hackers gain control over MILNET for two years with the use of a back door, gaining full access to the Pentagon Security Coordination Center. The IT rebels are also able to use their computers to interfere with the authorities who are investigating them.^[7]
1991		Prelude	Assange, now a noted computer hacker, pleads guilty to a host of cybercrime charges, but because of his youth he receives only minimal punishment.^[4]
c.1993		Prelude	Assange cumulates 31 counts of computer hacking and related crimes, eventually pleading guilty and paying a minimal fine.^[5]
1999		Launch	Assange registers `leaks.org`.^[7]
2006		Launch	Assange starts using `leaks.org` actively.^[5]
2006	December	Launch	Sunshine Press launches the `wikiLeaks.org` website, as part of an international non-profit organization that obtains and publishes sensitive information.^[7]^[4]
2006	December 26	Release	The first posting on `leaks.org` is a decision (never verified) by a Somali rebel leader to execute government officials.^[5]^[8]
2007		Launch	Assange announces the formal launch of WikiLeaks.^[5]
2007		Partnership	Assange initiates a relationship with British daily newspaper The Guardian, which reportedly receives regular emails from WikiLeaks “editor-in-chief” Assange, sometimes with a "good story to tell".^[5]
2007	August 31	Partnership	WikiLeaks and The Guardian work in tandem for the first time, with WikiLeaks posting the full text off, and the Guardian running a story on, a report by the private investigations firm Kroll about the alleged corruption of former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi.^[5]
2007	November	Release	WikiLeaks posts the standard operating procedures for the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp.^[4]
2007	December	Release	WikiLeaks posts the United States Army manual for soldiers dealing with prisoners at Camp Delta, a permanent American detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay.^[9]
2007		Team	German activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg begins working with WikiLeaks after meeting Assange at the Chaos Computer Club's annual conference (24C3).^[10]
2008	March	Release	WikiLeaks publishes internal material from the Church of Scientology. This would lead to the group threatening suit on the grounds of copyright infringement.^[4]^[9]
2008	April	Recognition	Wikileaks is awarded The Economist's New Media Award at the Index on Censorship Awards.^[11]
2008	September	Release	WikiLeaks posts emails from the Yahoo email account of US politician Sarah Palin.^[9]
2008	November	Release	WikiLeaks posts a list of names and addresses of people it claims belong to British National Party, a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.^[9]
2008		Recognition	WikiLeaks receives The Economist New Media Award.^[12]
2009	March 16	Censorship	The Australian Communications and Media Authority adds WikiLeaks to their proposed list of sites that will be blocked for all Australians if the mandatory internet filtering scheme is implemented as planned.^[13]^[14] The blacklisting would be removed by 29 November 2010.^[15]
2009	April 9	Censorship	Germany deletes `wikileaks.de` domain two weeks after the house of the German WikiLeaks domain sponsor, Theodor Reppe, was searched by German authorities.^[16]
2009	June	Recognition	Wikileaks is awarded the Amnesty International's UK Media Award.^[17]^[18]
2009	September 14	Release	WikiLeaks publishes the "Minton report", a study commissioned by Trafigura to determine the toxicity of the waste dumped in Abidjan during the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump.^[8]^[19]^[20]
2009	November	Release	WikiLeaks posts more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period around the September 11 attacks. Revealing messages include exchanges from "The Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department" officials. WikiLeaks states about the release: "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war."^[21]
2009		Recognition	WikiLeaks is awarded The Amnesty New Media Award.^[12]
2010	February	Funding	WikiLeaks announces it has been given the US$200,000 in donations it needs to continue work.^[22]
2010	April 5	Release	WikiLeaks posts a classified military video showing a Boeing AH-64 Apache firing on and killing two journalists and a number of Iraqi civilians in 2007. The military claims that the helicopter crew believed the targets were armed insurgents, not civilians.^[9]
2010	May	Legal	The first formal charges are filed when low-level U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is arrested in connection with the release of the 2007 helicopter video.^[4]
2010	May 19	Recognition	The New York Daily News lists WikiLeaks first among websites "that could totally change the news".^[23]
2010	May 26	Legal	The United States Armed Forces detains Bradley Manning on charges of illegally downloading hundreds of thousands of classified US documents, including the US helicopter gunship attack posted on WikiLeaks, and classified State Department records. Manning is turned in by threat analyst Adrian Lamo, who Manning confided in about leaking the classified records.^[9]^[5]
2010	July 6	Legal	The United States Armed Forces announce having charged Bradley Manning with violating army regulations by transferring classified information to a personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system and of violating federal laws of governing the handling of classified information.^[9]
2010	July 17	Support	American independent journalist Jacob Appelbaum speaks on behalf of WikiLeaks at the Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City, replacing Assange because of the presence of federal agents at the conference.^[24]^[25] He announces that the WikiLeaks submission system is again operating, after it has been suspended temporarily.^[24]^[26]
2010	July 25	Release	WikiLeaks posts more than 90,000 classified documents relating to the War in Afghanistan. This would be called the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. The documents are divided into more than 100 categories and touch on everything from the hunt for Osama bin Laden to Afghan civilian deaths resulting from US military actions."^[9]
2010	July	Support	Veterans for Peace president Mike Ferner writes on the group's website "neither Wikileaks nor the soldier or soldiers who divulged the documents should be prosecuted for revealing this information. We should give them a medal."^[27]
2010	August	Team	WikiLeaks decides to move their headquarters to Uppsala and begins to mainly be hosted by the Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof, where there are now a couple WikiLeaks servers in the Pionen facility.^[7]
2010	August 18	Censorship	The Thai Government blocks access to WikiLeaks website in its country.^[28]
2010	August	Support	Documentary filmmaker John Pilger writes an editorial in the Australian publication Green Left titled "Wikileaks must be defended." In it, Pilger says WikiLeaks represents the interests of "public accountability" and a new form of journalism at odds with "the dominant section ... devoted merely to taking down what cynical and malign power tells it."^[29]
2010	August	Security	Some portion of Wikileaks' servers are moved to a data center in Pionen, a former civil defence center located 30 meters below ground inside a Cold-War-era nuclear bunker carved out of a large rock hill in downtown Stockholm.^[30]
2010	October 22	Release	WikiLeaks publishes nearly 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq War, providing new figures of deceased Iraqi civilians, as well as the role that Iran has played in supporting Iraqi militants and many accounts of abuse by Iraq's army and police.^[9] "So, WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs on October 22nd of 2010. In so doing, it became the biggest leak in the military history of America up to that point, far surpassing the Afghan War Diary of July 25th from that same year."^[7]
2010	October 23	Recognition	WikiLeaks and Assange are awarded the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award for releasing secret U.S. military reports on the Iraq and Afghan wars.^[31]
2010	November 28	Release	WikiLeaks begins publishing approximately 250,000 diplomatic cables from the United States Department of State dating back to 1966. The site says the documents will be released "in stages over the next few months."^[9]^[32]
2010	November 28	Reaction	`wikileaks.org` suffers an attack designed to make it unavailable to users. A Twitter user called Jester claims responsibility for the attack.^[9]
2010	November 29	Support	Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez states his support for WikiLeaks following the release of US diplomatic cables in November 2010 showing the United States attempts to rally support from regional governments to isolate Venezuela.^[33]
2010	November	Release	WikiLeaks releases selections from a list of some 250,000 classified diplomatic cables between the United States Department of State and its embassies and consulates around the world. These secret documents contain U.S. efforts to politically and economically isolate Iran, primarily in response to fears of Iran’s development of nuclear weapons.^[4]
2010	November	Public opinion	According to a telephone survey of 1,004 German residents age 18 and older, a majority of 53% disapprove of WikiLeaks, while 43% are generally in favour of the platform. Asked about the specific release of US diplomatic cables, almost two Thirds (65%) believe that these documents should not be published, compared to 31% that agree that they are being released to the public.^[34]
2010	November	Team	The WikiLeaks-endorsed news and activism site WikiLeaks Central is initiated and administrated by editor Heather Marsh.^[35]^[36]
2010	November 30	Censorship	China blocks Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 leaked cables from the United States Department of State, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China–United States relations.^[37]
2010	December 1	Reaction	Amazon.com removes WikiLeaks from its servers after political pressure.^[38]^[39]^[40]
2010	December 2	Reaction	Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard makes a statement that she 'absolutely condemns' WikiLeaks' actions and that the release of information on the site is 'grossly irresponsible' and 'illegal.'^[41]
2010	December 2	Reaction	EveryDNS.net drops `wikiLeaks.org` as a client, citing the danger that the cyber attacks aimed at that site poses to the service's 500,000 other clients.^[42]
2010	December 3	Reaction	The Obama administration bans hundreds of thousands of federal employees from calling up the WikiLeaks site on government computers because the leaked material is still formally regarded as classified.^[43] The White House Office of Management and Budget sends a memorandum forbidding all unauthorized federal government employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites.^[44]
2010	December 9	Support	United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression Frank LaRue states he agrees with the idea that Julian Assange is a "martyr for free speech." LaRue goes on to say Assange or other WikiLeaks staff should not face legal accountability for any information they disseminated, noting that, "if there is a responsibility by leaking information it is of, exclusively of the person that made the leak and not of the media that publish it. And this is the way that transparency works and that corruption has been confronted in many cases."^[45] High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, subsequently voices concern at the revelation that private companies are being pressured by states to sever their relationships with WikiLeaks.^[46]
2010	December 15	Reaction	Philipino President Benigno Aquino III condemns WikiLeaks and leaks documents related to the country, saying that it can lead to massive cases of miscommunication.^[47]
2010	December 21	Reaction	Media reports that Apple Inc. has removed an application from its App Store, which provided access to the embassy cable leaks.^[48]
2010	December	Support	Noam Chomsky offers his support to protesters across Australia planning to take to the streets in defence of WikiLeaks.^[49] In an interview for Democracy Now!, Chomsky criticizes the government response, saying, "perhaps the most dramatic revelation ... is the bitter hatred of democracy that is revealed both by the U.S. Government – Hillary Clinton, others – and also by the diplomatic service."^[50]
2010	December	Spin-off	Daniel Domscheit-Berg announces the intention to start a site named "OpenLeaks".^[51]^[52]
2010	December	Reaction	`wikileaks.org` faces a number of setbacks, being forced to go off-line once again when the site’s domain name provider terminates its account in the wake of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. However, as with previous service interruptions, WikiLeaks remains available on mirror sites or by directly linking to its IP address.^[4]
2010	December	Legal	The British police arrests Assange on an outstanding Swedish warrant for alleged sex crimes.^[4]
2010	December	Reaction	PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard suspend online payment processing for donations to WikiLeaks.^[4]
2010	December	Recognition	Assange is named "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine.^[6]
2010	December	Recognition	The office of the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev issues a statement calling on non-governmental organisations to consider "nominating Julian Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate." The announcement follows commentary by Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin who stated that Julian Assange's earlier arrest on Swedish charges demonstrated that there was "no media freedom" in the west.^[53]
2010	December	Public opinion	A research poll shows that the majority of Australians are against the official government position on WikiLeaks. The findings were done on 1,000 individuals, showing 59% support WikiLeaks' action in making the cables public and 25% oppose it.^[54]
2010	December	Public opinion	According to a telephone survey of 1,029 US residents age 18 and older, conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, 70% of American respondents – particularly Republicans and older people – think the leaks are doing more harm than good by allowing enemies of the United States government to see confidential and secret information about U.S. foreign policy. Approximately 22% – especially young liberals – think the leaks are doing more good than harm by making the U.S. government more transparent and accountable. A majority of 59% also want to see the people behind WikiLeaks prosecuted, while 31% said the publication of secrets is protected under the First Amendment guarantee of a free press.^[55]
2010	December		Wikileaks website, `wikileaks.org`, redirects web traffic to a 3rd party mirror site, `mirror.wikileaks.info.`, a new website which is hosted in Russian Webalta's 92.241.160.0/19 IP address space, a network which The Spamhaus Project believes caters primarily to, or is under the control of, Russian cybercriminals.^[56]
2010		Recognition	WikiLeaks is awarded The Sam Adams Award for Integrity.^[12]
2011	January	Reaction	Libyan politician Muammar Gaddafi blames WikiLeaks for the Tunisian revolution stating "[Do not be fooled by] WikiLeaks which publishes information written by lying ambassadors in order to create chaos."^[57]
2011	January	Spin-off	RuLeaks launches as a Russian version of WikiLeaks. The website begins translating and mirroring publications by the original WikiLeaks, but it would quickly switch to original content.^[58]
2011	April	Release	WikiLeaks begins publishing more secret files from the military facilities at Guantanamo Bay, containing detailed information about the majority of prisoners detained at the detention camp from 2002 to 2008, including photographs, health records, and assessments of the potential threat posed by each prisoner. The files also indicates that dozens of detainees have passed through radicalized British mosques prior to their departure for Afghanistan and, ultimately, their capture by United States forces.^[4]
2011	April 25	Release	Guantanamo Bay files leak. WikiLeaks obtains nearly 800 classified US military documents revealing details about the alleged terrorist activities of Al Qaeda operatives captured and housed in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.^[59]^[60]^[8]
2011	June	Recognition	Assange is awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.^[61]
2011	July 14	Reaction	WikiLeaks and DataCell ehf. of Iceland file a complaint against the international card companies, VISA Europe and MasterCard Europe, for infringement of the antitrust rules of the EU, in response to their withdrawal of financial services to the organization. In a joint press release, the organizations state: "The closure by VISA Europe and MasterCard of Datcell's access to the payment card networks in order to stop donations to WikiLeaks violates the competition rules of the European Community."^[62] DataCell files a complaint^[63] with the European Commission on 14 July 2011.
2011	August	Spin-off	Leakymails launches in Argentina as a project designed to obtain and publish relevant documents exposing corruption of the political class and the powerful in the country.^[64]^[65]^[66]^[67]
2011	September 2	Release	Assange releases its archive containing more than 250,000 unredacted US diplomatic cables.^[9]
2011	October 24		WikiLeaks announces a temporary halt in publication in order to focus its efforts on fund-raising. Assange states that a financial blockade by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union has cut off 95% of WikiLeaks' revenue.^[9]^[4]
2011	December 1	Release	Wikileaks releases more than 287 files exposing 160 intelligence contracting companies in 25 countries that "develop technologies to allow the tracking and monitoring of individuals by their mobile phones, email accounts and Internet browsing histories".^[8]^[68]^[69]
2011	December	Spin-off	WikiLeaks launches Friends of WikiLeaks, a social network for supporters and founders of the website.^[70]
2011		Recognition	Icelandic investigative journalist and WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson is awarded The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year.^[12]
2011		Recognition	WikiLeaks is awarded The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal, the Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator, the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, the Voltaire Award for Free Speech, the International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists, and the Jose Couso Press Freedom Award.^[12]
2012	January	Spin-off	Honest Appalachia initiates as a website based in the United States intended to appeal to potential "whistleblowers" in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and serve as a replicable model for similar projects elsewhere.^[71]^[72]
2012	February 23	Legal	Bradley Manning is formally charged with aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records.^[9]
2012	February	Release	WikiLeaks publishes secret emails from American geopolitical intelligence platform Stratfor that shows US authorities have drawn up secret charges against Assange.^[73]^[9]
2012	March 8	Team	Heather Marsh resigns from WikiLeaks.^[74]
2012	July 5	Release	WikiLeaks begins publishing more than 2.4 million emails from Syrian politicians, government ministries and companies.^[9]
2012	June	Legal	Assange applies for asylum in Ecuador and seeks refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador, London, after his extradition appeal was denied and with a Swedish arrest warrant pending.^[4] "According to a New York Times article, Assange came to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in June 2012, seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden. "^[6]
2012		Recognition	WikiLeaks is awarded The Privacy International Hero of Privacy.^[12]
2013	February 4	Recognition	Assange is awarded in New York with the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts.^[75]
2013	February 28	Legal	Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some of the 22 charges against him, except the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carries a life sentence.^[9]
2013	April	Recognition	WikiLeaks is awarded the Global Exchange Human Rights People’s Choice Award.^[76]
2013	July	Political campaign	Assange launches the WikiLeaks Party in Australia and announces his candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate.^[4]
2013	August	Legal	Though being acquitted of aiding the enemy Bradley Manning is sentenced by military judge to 35 years in prison.^[4]^[9]
2013	September 9	Spin-off	A number of major Dutch media outlets support the launch of Publeaks, which provides a secure website for people to leak documents to the media using the GlobaLeaks whistleblowing software.^[77]^[78]
2013	September 20	Recognition	Assange is awarded the Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award.^[79]
2014	April	Release	Sony Pictures becomes the target of a massive data breach, and a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace soon begin releasing sensitive company information in small batches. The hack is eventually attributed to North Korea. The following April, WikiLeaks published more than 200,000 of the stolen documents in a searchable database, a move that was immediately criticized by Sony."^[4]
2014	June	Recognition	Assange is awarded the Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize.^[80]
2015	January 26		WikiLeaks' lawyers address Google and the United States Department of Justice concerning a serious violation of the privacy and journalistic rights of WikiLeaks' staff, after investigations editor Sarah Harrison, Section Editor Joseph Farrell and senior journalist and spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson received notice that Google has handed over all their emails and metadata to the United States government on the back of alleged 'conspiracy' and 'espionage' warrants.^[81]
2015	June 19	Release	WikiLeaks publishes 500,000 cables and Foreign Ministry documents from the Saudi Government.^[82]^[83]^[8]
2015	October	Recognition	WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison is awarded the Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage.^[84]
2015	November 16	Release	WikiLeaks publishes the "Final Texts" of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.^[85]^[86]^[87]^[88]^[8]
2016	March	Release	WikiLeaks unveils a searchable archive containing 30,000 e-mail messages and attachments retrieved from a private server maintained by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as United States Secretary of State (2009–13). The collection is made public by the State Department through the Freedom of Information Act.^[4]
2016	May 25	Release	WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Trade in Services Agreement trade deal.^[8]
2016	July 20	Censorship	The Turkish government blocks access to Wikileaks after it releases nearly 300,000 emails involving the ruling Justice and Development Party. The email releases are in response to the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.^[89]
2016	July 22	Release	An amount of nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Committee staffers is released by WikiLeaks. The emails appear to show the committee favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the United States presidential primary.^[9]
2016	July	Release	WikiLeaks publishes more than 60,000 Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mail messages and documents, days before the Democratic Party officially nominates Clinton as its candidate in the US Presidential Election 2016.^[4]
2016	October 7	Release	WikiLeaks publishes the Podesta emails, a collection of 58,660 emails from Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta.^[90]^[91]^[8]
2016	October 11	Authenticity	Writer Glenn Greenwald asserts that WikiLeaks has a "perfect, long-standing record of only publishing authentic documents."^[92]
2016	October 13	Authenticity	Columnist Eric Zorn writes "So far, it's possible, even likely, that every stolen email WikiLeaks has posted has been authentic." but cautions against assuming that future releases would be equally authentic.^[93]
2016	October 16		Wikileaks tweets a series of three unusually cryptic, confusing messages, each containing a 64-character code. The posts are followed by rumors questioning whether Assange is dead or alive, with some people believing Assange was killed or is currently in grave danger, and that a dead man’s switch was activated.^[94]^[95]
2016	November 25	Release	WikiLeaks publishes the Yemen Files, a collection of more than 500 documents from the United States Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, which offer documentary evidence of the arming, training and funding of Yemeni forces by the United States in the years building up to the Yemeni civil war.^[96]^[97]^[8]
2016	December 1	Release	WikiLeaks publishes the German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits, an amount of 90 gygabites of information relating to the BND-NSA Inquiry.^[98]^[99]^[8]
2017	January 3		Assange announces in interview that Russia did not give WikiLeaks hacked emails.^[9]
2017	January 12		WikiLeaks tweets that Assange will agree to be extradited to the United States if Obama grants clemency to Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning).^[9]
2017	January 17	Legal	United States President Barack Obama commutes the sentence of Chelsea Manning, setting the stage for her to be released on May 17.^[100]
2017	January		The WikiLeaks Task Force, a Twitter account associated with WikiLeaks,^[101] proposes the creation of a database to track verified Twitter users, including sensitive personal information on individuals' homes, families and finances.^[102]^[101]^[103] The Chicago Tribune would describe the proposal as facing a "sharp and swift backlash as technologists, journalists and security researchers slammed the idea as a 'sinister' and dangerous abuse of power and privacy."^[102] Twitter furthermore bans the use of Twitter data for "surveillance purposes," stating "Posting another person's private and confidential information is a violation of the Twitter rules."^[101]
2017	February 16	Release	WikiLeaks publishes CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election.^[104]^[8] Assange claims he has damaging information on the leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron having a homosexual affair.^[105]
2017	March 7	Release	WikiLeaks publishes thousands of internal CIA documents (known as Vault 7), including alleged discussions of a covert hacking program and the development of spy software targeting cellphones, smart TVs and computer systems in cars. Assange states that the website published the documents as a warning about the risk of the proliferation of "cyber weapons". However, the documents are not independently authenticated.^[106]
2017	April	Reaction	In a speech addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director Mike Pompeo refers to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founder Julian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward.^[107]
2017	May 3	Reaction	FBI Director James Comey refers to WikiLeaks as "intelligence porn" during a Senate hearing, and declares that the site's disclosures are intended to damage the United States rather than educate the public.^[9]
2017	May 17	Legal	Chelsea Manning is released from prison.^[108]
2017	October		CNN reports that in 2016 a Cambridge Analytica executive approached WikiLeaks requesting access to emails from Hillary Clinton. Assange confirms the exchange in a tweet.^[109]
2018	September 28	Release	WikiLeaks publishes a secret document concerning a dispute over a £3.6 billion Middle Eastern arms deal.^[110]^[111]^[8]
2018	October 11	Release	WikiLeaks publishes a "Highly Confidential" internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon which lists the addresses of over 100 data centers in nine countries including China, Singapore and Japan.^[112]^[113]^[8]
2019	January		WikiLeaks sends a 5,000-word email to journalists listing 140 things they should not say about Assange, from asserting that he has been an agent of any intelligence service to that he has ever bleached his hair.^[114]
2019	April	Legal	Assange asylum is rescinded, and he is indicted in the United States for violating the Espionage Act.^[6]
2019	April	Recognition	Assange is awarded the Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information.^[115]^[116]^[117]

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 13, 2021.

Year	WikiLeaks
2007	89
2008	197
2009	299
2010	2,000
2011	7,130
2012	6,420
2013	6,270
2014	6,480
2015	5,970
2016	6,320
2017	6,330
2018	5,680
2019	5,150
2020	4,610

Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for WikiLeaks (Non-profit) and Julian Assange (Australian editor), from October 2006 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.^[118]

Google Ngram Viewer

The comparative chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, from 2006 to 2019.^[119]

Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article WikiLeaks, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021.^[120]

The comparative chart below shows pageviews on desktop of the English Wikipedia articles WikiLeaks and Julian Assange from December 2007 to March 2021.^[121]

Meta information on the timeline

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External links

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-This is a '''timeline of {{w|WikiLeaks}}''', an international {{w|non-profit}} organization that publishes {{w|news leak}}s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |title=What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information? |last=Karhula |first=Päivikki |date=5 October 2012 |publisher=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |access-date=11 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630172755/http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |archivedate=30 June 2012 |deadurl=no }}</ref>
+This is a '''timeline of {{w|WikiLeaks}}''', an international {{w|non-profit}} organization that publishes {{w|news leak}}s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |title=What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information? |last=Karhula |first=Päivikki |date=5 October 2012 |publisher=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |access-date=11 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630172755/http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |archivedate=30 June 2012 |deadurl=no }}</ref>
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 | 2007 || December || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} posts the {{w|United States Army}} manual for soldiers dealing with prisoners at [[w:Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay)|Camp Delta]], a permanent American [[w:Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay]].<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts">{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks Fast Facts |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/wikileaks-fast-facts/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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+| 2007 || || Team || German activist {{w|Daniel Domscheit-Berg}} begins working with {{w|WikiLeaks}} after meeting Assange at the Chaos Computer Club's annual conference ({{w|24C3}}).<ref name="nationalpost">{{cite news |title=Julian Assange vs. the world |first=Mark |last=Hosenball |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/Julian+Assange+world/3982050/story.html |newspaper={{w|National Post}} |date=2010-12-15}}</ref>
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 | 2008 || March || Release || WikiLeaks publishes internal material from the {{w|Church of Scientology}}. This would lead to the group threatening suit on the grounds of copyright infringement.<ref name="britannica.com"/><ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/>
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 | 2009 || March 16 || Censorship || The {{w|Australian Communications and Media Authority}} adds WikiLeaks to their proposed list of sites that will be blocked for all Australians if the [[w:Internet censorship in Australia|mandatory internet filtering scheme]] is implemented as planned.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1&page=-1/ |title=Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day |work=The Age|place=Melbourne |date=16 March 2009 |accessdate=27 May 2019|first=Asher|last=Moses | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121106205253/http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html?page=fullpage | archivedate = 2012-11-06| deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list%2C_16_Mar_2009/index.html |title=Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet censorship list, 16&nbsp;Mar 2009 |publisher=Mirror.wikileaks.info |date=16 March 2009 |accessdate=27 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415212707/http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list%2C_16_Mar_2009/index.html |archivedate=15 April 2011 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The blacklisting would be removed by 29 November 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Josh |url=http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklist-339307604.htm |title=Wikileaks removed from ACMA blacklist |work=ZDNet Australia |date=29 November 2010 |accessdate=1 December 2010 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101129235721/http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklist-339307604.htm | archivedate = 2010-11-29| deadurl=no}}</ref>
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+| 2009 || April 9 || Censorship || Germany deletes <code>wikileaks.de</code> domain two weeks after the house of the German WikiLeaks domain sponsor, Theodor Reppe, was searched by German authorities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany deletes WikiLeaks.de domain after raid |url=https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Germany_deletes_WikiLeaks.de_domain_after_raid |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2009 || June || Recognition || Wikileaks is awarded the {{w|Amnesty International}}'s UK Media Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Cry of Blood. Report on Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearances|url=http://www.ediec.org/library/item/id/402/|publisher=Kenya National Commission on Human Rights|accessdate=27 May 2019|year=2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209122323/http://www.ediec.org/library/item/id/402/|archivedate=9 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release |title=Amnesty announces Media Awards 2009 winners |url=http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18227 |publisher=Amnesty International UK |accessdate=27 May 2019 |date=2 June 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022182928/http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18227 |archivedate=22 October 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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-| 2009 || September 4 || Release || WikiLeaks publishes the "Minton report", a study commissioned by Trafigura to determine the toxicity of the waste dumped in {{w|Abidjan}} during the {{w|2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works">{{cite web |title=How WikiLeaks works |url=https://defend.wikileaks.org/wikileaks/ |website=defend.wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+| 2009 || September 14 || Release || WikiLeaks publishes the "Minton report", a study commissioned by Trafigura to determine the toxicity of the waste dumped in {{w|Abidjan}} during the {{w|2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works">{{cite web |title=How WikiLeaks works |url=https://defend.wikileaks.org/wikileaks/ |website=defend.wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations, 14 Sep 2006 |url=https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_toxic_dumping_along_the_Ivory_Coast_broke_EU_regulations,_14_Sep_2006 |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=News Across Media: Production, Distribution and Consumption |edition=Jakob Linaa Jensen, Mette Mortensen, Jacob Ørmen |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=2As9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=WikiLeaks+publishes+the+%22Minton+report%22+%22september+%22&source=bl&ots=--6N6YChKL&sig=ACfU3U0gOjX_XZ-GyLwiYj_D4xEUWHNs3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgg82Q66_kAhUaLLkGHXMjBXEQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=WikiLeaks%20publishes%20the%20%22Minton%20report%22%20%22september%20%22&f=false}}</ref>
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 | 2009 || November || Release || WikiLeaks posts more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period around the {{w|September 11 attacks}}. Revealing messages include exchanges from "{{w|The Pentagon}}, {{w|FBI}}, [[w:Federal Emergency Management Agency|FEMA]] and {{w|New York Police Department}}" officials. WikiLeaks states about the release: "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war."<ref name="usatoday.com">{{cite web |title=Six big leaks from Julian Assange's WikiLeaks over the years |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/11/julian-assange-six-wikileaks-most-memorable-revelations/3434371002/ |website=usatoday.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || August || Support || Documentary filmmaker {{w|John Pilger}} writes an editorial in the Australian publication ''[[w:Green Left Weekly|Green Left]]'' titled "Wikileaks must be defended." In it, Pilger says WikiLeaks represents the interests of "public accountability" and a new form of journalism at odds with "the dominant section ... devoted merely to taking down what cynical and malign power tells it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45225 |title=John Pilger: Wikileaks must be defended &#124; Green Left Weekly |publisher=Greenleft.org.au |date=29 August 2010 |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref>
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+| 2010 || August || Security || Some portion of Wikileaks' servers are moved to a data center in {{w|Pionen}}, a former civil defence center located 30 meters below ground inside a Cold-War-era nuclear bunker carved out of a large rock hill in downtown {{w|Stockholm}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikileaks Servers Move To Underground Nuclear Bunker |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/30/wikileaks-servers-move-to-underground-nuclear-bunker/?boxes=businesschanneltopstories#5f2479df1e32 |website=forbes.com |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || October 22 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes nearly 400,000 classified military documents from the {{w|Iraq War}}, providing new figures of deceased Iraqi civilians, as well as the role that Iran has played in supporting Iraqi militants and many accounts of abuse by Iraq's army and police.<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/> "So, WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs on October 22nd of 2010. In so doing, it became the biggest leak in the military history of America up to that point, far surpassing the Afghan War Diary of July 25th from that same year."<ref name="A History of WikiLeakss"/>
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 | 2010 || November 28 || Reaction || <code>wikileaks.org</code> suffers an attack designed to make it unavailable to users. A {{w|Twitter}} user called Jester claims responsibility for the attack.<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/>
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-| 2010 || November 29 || Censorship || Thailand Blocks Access To WikiLeaks Website.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thailand Blocks Access To WikiLeaks Website |url=https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/391577-thailand-blocks-access-to-wikileaks-website/ |website=forum.thaivisa.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || November 29 || Support || Venezuelan President {{w|Hugo Chávez}} states his support for WikiLeaks following the release of US diplomatic cables in November 2010 showing the United States attempts to rally support from regional governments to isolate Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cancel |first=Daniel |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-30/chavez-praises-wikileaks-for-bravery-while-calling-on-clinton-to-resign.html |title=Chavez Praises Wikileaks for `Bravery' While Calling on Clinton to Resign |publisher=Bloomberg |date=29 November 2010|accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || November || Public opinion || According to a telephone survey of 1,004 German residents age 18 and older, a majority of 53% disapprove of WikiLeaks, while 43% are generally in favour of the platform. Asked about the specific release of US diplomatic cables, almost two Thirds (65%) believe that these documents should not be published, compared to 31% that agree that they are being released to the public.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ARD Deutschland Trend |publisher={{w|Infratest dimap}} |pages=5–6 |format=PDF |date=December 2010 |url=http://www.infratest-dimap.de/uploads/media/dt1012_bericht.pdf |accessdate=23 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719043949/http://www.infratest-dimap.de/uploads/media/dt1012_bericht.pdf |archive-date=19 July 2011 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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+| 2010 || November || Team || The WikiLeaks-endorsed news and activism site WikiLeaks Central is initiated and administrated by editor {{w|Heather Marsh}}.<ref name="smh">{{cite news |last=Dorling |first=Philip |title=Building on WikiLeaks |url=http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/building-on-wikileaks-20111028-1mo38.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=29 October 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130183250/http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/building-on-wikileaks-20111028-1mo38.html |archivedate=30 January 2012 |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Supporters |url=https://www.wikileaks.org/Supporters.html |publisher=Wikileaks |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326090849/https://wikileaks.org/Supporters.html |archivedate=26 March 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref>
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+| 2010 || November 30 || Censorship || China blocks Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 leaked cables from the {{w|United States Department of State}}, with its [[w:Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China|Foreign Ministry]] saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in {{w|China–United States relations}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=China Blocks Access to WikiLeaks |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/211958/china_blocks_access_to_wikileaks.html |website=pcworld.com |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || December 1 || Reaction || {{w|Amazon.com}} removes {{w|WikiLeaks}} from its servers after political pressure.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=8 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=O’CONNOR |first1=ANAHAD |title=Amazon Removes WikiLeaks From Servers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/02amazon.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=8 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks: Amazon.com Kicked Us Off Servers |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-amazoncom-kicked-us-off-servers/ |website=cbsnews.com |accessdate=8 July 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || December 2 || Reaction || Australian Prime Minister {{w|Julia Gillard}} makes a statement that she 'absolutely condemns' WikiLeaks' actions and that the release of information on the site is 'grossly irresponsible' and 'illegal.'<ref name="julia">{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/technology/gillard-condemns-wikileaks-20101202-18haq.html |title=Gillard condemns WikiLeaks |editor=Paul Ramadge |date=2 December 2010 |work=The Age |location=Australia |publisher=Fairfax Media |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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+| 2010 || December 2 || Reaction || [[w:EveryDNS|EveryDNS.net]] drops <code>wikiLeaks.org</code> as a client, citing the danger that the cyber attacks aimed at that site poses to the service's 500,000 other clients.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Has WikiLeaks Managed to Keep Its Web Site Up and Running? |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wikileaks-assange-persistence-of-info/ |website=scientificamerican.com |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || December 3 || Reaction || The Obama administration bans hundreds of thousands of federal employees from calling up the WikiLeaks site on government computers because the leaked material is still formally regarded as classified.<ref>{{cite web |title=US blocks access to WikiLeaks for federal workers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-cables-blocks-access-federal |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref> The White House Office of Management and Budget sends a memorandum forbidding all unauthorized federal government employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/03/wikileaks.access.warning/index.html |title=U.S. agencies warn unauthorized employees not to look at WikiLeaks |first1=David |last1=de Sola |date=4 December 2010 |work=CNN |accessdate=31 July 2019 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131021230819/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/03/wikileaks.access.warning/index.html | archivedate = 2013-10-21| deadurl=no}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || December || Support || {{w|Noam Chomsky}} offers his support to protesters across Australia planning to take to the streets in defence of WikiLeaks.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46378|title=Noam Chomsky backs Wikileaks protests in Australia |date=10 December 2010 |work=|publisher={{w|Green Left Weekly}} |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref> In an interview for ''{{w|Democracy Now!}}'', Chomsky criticizes the government response, saying, "perhaps the most dramatic revelation ... is the bitter hatred of democracy that is revealed both by the U.S. Government – Hillary Clinton, others – and also by the diplomatic service."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20101130.htm |title=WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership" |publisher=Noam Chomsky website |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2010 || December || Spin-off || German activist {{w|Daniel Domscheit-Berg}} announces the intention to start a site named "OpenLeaks"<ref name=about>{{cite web |url=http://www.openleaks.org/content/about.shtml |title=About OpenLeaks |publisher=OpenLeaks |accessdate=28 January 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130215737/http://www.openleaks.org/content/about.shtml |archivedate=30 January 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> with the intention of being more transparent than WikiLeaks. "In these last months, the WikiLeaks organization has not been open any more. It lost its [[w:open-source model|open-source]] promise."<ref name=aljazeera>{{cite news |title=Copycat WikiLeaks sites make waves |first=Ben |last=Piven |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/12/20101216194828514847.html |newspaper={{w|Al Jazeera English}} |date=17 December 2010 |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+| 2010 || December || Spin-off || {{w|Daniel Domscheit-Berg}} announces the intention to start a site named "OpenLeaks".<ref name=about>{{cite web |url=http://www.openleaks.org/content/about.shtml |title=About OpenLeaks |publisher=OpenLeaks |accessdate=28 January 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130215737/http://www.openleaks.org/content/about.shtml |archivedate=30 January 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=aljazeera>{{cite news |title=Copycat WikiLeaks sites make waves |first=Ben |last=Piven |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/12/20101216194828514847.html |newspaper={{w|Al Jazeera English}} |date=17 December 2010 |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || December || Reaction || <code>wikileaks.org</code> faces a number of setbacks, being forced to go off-line once again when the site’s domain name provider terminates its account in the wake of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. However, as with previous service interruptions, WikiLeaks remains available on mirror sites or by directly linking to its {{w|IP address}}.<ref name="britannica.com"/>
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 | 2010 || December || Public opinion || According to a telephone survey of 1,029 US residents age 18 and older, conducted by the {{w|Marist Institute for Public Opinion}}, 70% of American respondents – particularly [[w:Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and older people – think the leaks are doing more harm than good by allowing enemies of the United States government to see confidential and secret information about U.S. foreign policy. Approximately 22% – especially young [[w:Liberalism in the United States|liberals]] – think the leaks are doing more good than harm by making the U.S. government more transparent and accountable. A majority of 59% also want to see the people behind WikiLeaks prosecuted, while 31% said the publication of secrets is protected under the [[w:First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] guarantee of a free press.<ref>{{Cite web |title=McClatchy-Marist Poll National Survey December 2010 |publisher={{w|Marist Institute for Public Opinion}} | pages=21–24 | format=PDF | date=10 December 2010 |url=http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US101202/McClatchy/McClatchy_Marist%20Poll_National%20Survey_December%2010,%202010.pdf |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref>
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+| 2010 || December || || Wikileaks website, <code>wikileaks.org</code>, redirects web traffic to a 3rd party mirror site, <code>mirror.wikileaks.info.</code>, a new website which is hosted in Russian Webalta's 92.241.160.0/19 {{w|IP address}} space, a network which {{w|The Spamhaus Project}} believes caters primarily to, or is under the control of, Russian cybercriminals.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikileaks Mirror Malware Warning |url=https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/665/wikileaks-mirror-malware-warning |website=spamhaus.org |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2010 || || Recognition || {{w|WikiLeaks}} is awarded The Sam Adams Award for Integrity.<ref name="Awards"/>
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 | 2011 || April || Release || WikiLeaks begins publishing more secret files from the military facilities at {{w|Guantanamo Bay}}, containing detailed information about the majority of prisoners detained at the detention camp from 2002 to 2008, including photographs, health records, and assessments of the potential threat posed by each prisoner. The files also indicates that dozens of detainees have passed through radicalized British mosques prior to their departure for {{w|Afghanistan}} and, ultimately, their capture by {{w|United States}} forces.<ref name="britannica.com"/>
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-| 2011 || April 25 || Release || WikiLeaks obtains nearly 800 classified US military documents revealing details about the alleged terrorist activities of {{w|Al Qaeda}} operatives captured and housed in the {{w|Guantanamo Bay detention camp}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2011 || April 25 || Release || {{w|Guantanamo Bay files leak}}. WikiLeaks obtains nearly 800 classified US military documents revealing details about the alleged terrorist activities of {{w|Al Qaeda}} operatives captured and housed in the {{w|Guantanamo Bay detention camp}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Files on All Guantánamo Prisoners |url=https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Timeline of Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions |url=https://peacefultomorrows.org/history-guantanamo-bay-military-commissions/ |website=peacefultomorrows.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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 | 2011 || June || Recognition || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] is awarded the {{w|Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn journalism prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jun/02/julian-assange-martha-gelhorn-prize |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2011 || October 24 || || {{w|WikiLeaks}} announces a temporary halt in publication in order to focus its efforts on fund-raising. Assange states that a financial blockade by {{w|Bank of America}}, {{w|VISA}}, {{w|MasterCard}}, {{w|PayPal}} and {{w|Western Union}} has cut off 95% of WikiLeaks' revenue.<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/><ref name="britannica.com"/>
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-| 2011 || December 1 || Release || Wikileaks releases documents exposing 160 companies in the mass surveillance industry.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2011 || December 1 || Release || Wikileaks releases more than 287 files exposing 160 intelligence contracting companies in 25 countries that "develop technologies to allow the tracking and monitoring of individuals by their mobile phones, email accounts and Internet browsing histories".<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/><ref>{{cite web |title=The Spy Files |url=https://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks' latest "Spy Files" document release exposes secrets of global surveillance |url=https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/wikileaks-latest-spy-files-document-release-exposes-secrets-global-surveillance |website=knightcenter.utexas.edu |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2011 || December || Spin-off || WikiLeaks launches ''Friends of WikiLeaks'', a social network for supporters and founders of the website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netzwelt.de/news/89988-wikileaks-enthuellungsplattform-gruendet-soziales-netzwerk.html |title=Wikileaks launches Social Network |publisher=Netzwelt.de |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=24 August 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324015155/http://www.netzwelt.de/news/89988-wikileaks-enthuellungsplattform-gruendet-soziales-netzwerk.html |archivedate=24 March 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref>
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 | 2012 || February || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes secret emails from American geopolitical intelligence platform {{w|Stratfor}} that shows US authorities have drawn up secret charges against Assange.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ecuador shows up Australian government on Assange asylum |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ecuador-shows-australian-government-assange-asylum |website=greenleft.org.au |accessdate=25 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/>
+|-
+| 2012 || March 8 || Team || {{w|Heather Marsh}} resigns from {{w|WikiLeaks}}.<ref>{{cite web |last=Marsh |first=Heather |title=To Whom It May Concern |url=http://wikileaks.theblogger.com.au/2012/03/08/to-whom-it-may-concern/ |publisher=WL Central |access-date=8 March 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203214040/http://wikileaks.theblogger.com.au/2012/03/08/to-whom-it-may-concern/ |archivedate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2012 || July 5 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} begins publishing more than 2.4 million emails from Syrian politicians, government ministries and companies.<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/>
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 | 2014 || June || Recognition || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] is awarded the Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kazakh Journalists' Union Honors WikiLeaks Founder |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakh-journalists-union-honors-wikileaks-founder/25433039.html |website=rferl.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2015 || June 19 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes 500,000 cables and Foreign Ministry documents from the {{w|Saudi Government}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2015 || January 26 || || WikiLeaks' lawyers address {{w|Google}} and the {{w|United States Department of Justice}} concerning a serious violation of the privacy and journalistic rights of WikiLeaks' staff, after investigations editor [[w:Sarah Harrison (journalist)|Sarah Harrison]], Section Editor Joseph Farrell and senior journalist and spokesperson {{w|Kristinn Hrafnsson}} received notice that Google has handed over all their emails and metadata to the United States government on the back of alleged 'conspiracy' and 'espionage' warrants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Google hands data to US Government in WikiLeaks espionage case |url=https://wikileaks.org/google-warrant/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2015 || October || Recognition || WikiLeaks section editor [[w:Sarah Harrison (journalist)|Sarah harrison]] is awarded the Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sarah Harrison acceptance speech for the Willy Brandt Prize for political courage |url=https://wikileaks.org/Sarah-Harrison-acceptance-speech.html |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+| 2015 || June 19 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes 500,000 cables and Foreign Ministry documents from the {{w|Saudi Government}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks publishes the Saudi Cables |url=https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/press |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks to release 500,000 Saudi diplomatic cables, including paper on 'Bin Laden inheritance' |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1824011/wikileaks-release-500000-saudi-diplomatic-cables-including-paper-bin |website=scmp.com |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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-| 2015 || November 16 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the Final Texts of the {{w|Trans-Pacific Partnership}} trade deal.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2015 || October || Recognition || WikiLeaks section editor [[w:Sarah Harrison (journalist)|Sarah Harrison]] is awarded the Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sarah Harrison acceptance speech for the Willy Brandt Prize for political courage |url=https://wikileaks.org/Sarah-Harrison-acceptance-speech.html |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+|-
+| 2015 || November 16 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the "Final Texts" of the {{w|Trans-Pacific Partnership}} trade deal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trade in Services Agreement |url=https://wikileaks.org/tisa/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks releases documents related to controversial US trade pact |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/03/wikileaks-documents-trade-in-services-agreement |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trans-Pacific-Partnership - Final Texts |url=https://wikileaks.org/tpp-final/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Journalism, Power and Investigation: Global and Activist Perspectives |edition=Stuart Price |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=_eGEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT268&lpg=PT268&dq=wikileaks+%22final+texts%22+trans+pacific&source=bl&ots=XJIPX_OPq4&sig=ACfU3U2eSw9kdFVGbqZUwMjjeAKbpEEhkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1lta49q_kAhWIHrkGHfWvCRAQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=wikileaks%20%22final%20texts%22%20trans%20pacific&f=false}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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 | 2016 || March || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} unveils a searchable archive containing 30,000 e-mail messages and attachments retrieved from a private server maintained by {{w|Hillary Clinton}} during her tenure as {{w|United States Secretary of State}} (2009–13). The collection is made public by the [[w:United States Department of State|State Department]] through the {{w|Freedom of Information Act}}.<ref name="britannica.com"/>
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 | 2016 || July || Release || WikiLeaks publishes more than 60,000 Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mail messages and documents, days before the Democratic Party officially nominates Clinton as its candidate in the {{w|US Presidential Election 2016}}.<ref name="britannica.com"/>
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-| 2016 || October 7 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the {{w|Podesta emails}}, a collection of 58,660 emails from {{w|Hillary Clinton}} campaign {{w|Chairman John Podesta}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2016 || October 7 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the {{w|Podesta emails}}, a collection of 58,660 emails from {{w|Hillary Clinton}} campaign {{w|Chairman John Podesta}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Podesta Emails |url=https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WIKILEAKS RELEASES PODESTA EMAILS SHORTLY AFTER “ACCESS HOLLYWOOD” TAPE RELEASED |url=https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/wikileaks-releases-podesta-emails-shortly-access-hollywood-tapes-released/ |website=themoscowproject.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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 | 2016 || October 11 || Authenticity || Writer {{w|Glenn Greenwald}} asserts that WikiLeaks has a "perfect, long-standing record of only publishing authentic documents."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenwald |first1=Glenn |title=In the Democratic Echo Chamber, Inconvenient Truths Are Recast as Putin Plots |url=https://theintercept.com/2016/10/11/in-the-democratic-echo-chamber-inconvenient-truths-are-recast-as-putin-plots/ |work=The Intercept}}</ref>
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 | 2016 || October 16 || || Wikileaks tweets a series of three unusually cryptic, confusing messages, each containing a 64-character code. The posts are followed by rumors questioning whether [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] is dead or alive, with some people believing Assange was killed or is currently in grave danger, and that a {{w|dead man’s switch}} was activated.<ref>{{cite web |title=These Cryptic Wikileaks Tweets Don't Mean Julian Assange Is Dead |url=https://gizmodo.com/these-cryptic-wikileaks-tweets-dont-mean-julian-assange-1787866602 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Is Julian Assange Dead Or Alive? |url=https://www.inquisitr.com/3609028/is-julian-assange-dead-or-alive-wikileaks/ |website=inquisitr.com |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2016 || December 1 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the German [[w:Federal Intelligence Service|BND]]-[[w:National Security Agency|NSA]] Inquiry Exhibits, an amount of 90 gygabites of information relating to the BND-NSA Inquiry.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2016 || November 25 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the Yemen Files, a collection of more than 500 documents from the {{w|United States Embassy}} in {{w|Sana’a}}, {{w|Yemen}}, which offer documentary evidence of the arming, training and funding of Yemeni forces by the United States in the years building up to the [[w:Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)|Yemeni civil war]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Yemen Files |url=https://wikileaks.org/yemen-files/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks Drops Yemen Files, Unmasks Washington's Bloody Role |url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/WikiLeaks-Drops-Yemen-Files-Unmasks-Washingtons-Bloody-Role-20161125-0012.html |website=telesurenglish.net |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+|-
+| 2016 || December 1 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes the German [[w:Federal Intelligence Service|BND]]-[[w:National Security Agency|NSA]] Inquiry Exhibits, an amount of 90 gygabites of information relating to the BND-NSA Inquiry.<ref>{{cite web |title=German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits |url=https://wikileaks.org/bnd-inquiry/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikileaks releases 2,420 documents from German government NSA inquiry |url=https://www.dw.com/en/wikileaks-releases-2420-documents-from-german-government-nsa-inquiry/a-36609515 |website=dw.com |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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 | 2017 || January 3 || || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] announces in interview that {{w|Russia}} did not give WikiLeaks hacked emails.<ref name="WikiLeaks Fast Facts"/>
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 | 2017 || January || || The WikiLeaks Task Force, a {{w|Twitter}} account associated with WikiLeaks,<ref name=":19">{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/06/wikileaks-threatens-publish-twitter-users-personal-info/96254138/ |title=WikiLeaks threatens to publish Twitter users' personal info |author=Jessica Guynn |date=6 January 2017 |newspaper=USA Today}}</ref> proposes the creation of a database to track verified Twitter users, including sensitive personal information on individuals' homes, families and finances.<ref name=":18">{{Cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-wikileaks-tracking-verified-twitter-20170106-story.html |title=WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users' homes, families and finances |last=Fung |first=Brian |newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=30 July 2019}}</ref><ref name=":19" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://thehill.com/policy/technology/313071-wikileaks-floats-creating-database-of-twitter-users-personal-data |title=WikiLeaks floats creating database of Twitter users' personal data |last=Mali |first=Meghashyam |date=6 January 2017 |newspaper=The Hill|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref> The ''{{w|Chicago Tribune}}'' would describe the proposal as facing a "sharp and swift backlash as technologists, journalists and security researchers slammed the idea as a 'sinister' and dangerous abuse of power and privacy."<ref name=":18" /> Twitter furthermore bans the use of Twitter data for "surveillance purposes," stating "Posting another person's private and confidential information is a violation of the Twitter rules."<ref name=":19" />
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-| 2017 || February 16 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes {{w|CIA}} espionage orders for the {{w|2012 French presidential election}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/> [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] claims he has damaging information on the leading French presidential candidate {{w|Emmanuel Macron}} having a homosexual affair.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fearnow |first1=Benjamin |title=Emmanuel Macron Emails: Wikileaks Releases French President's Campaign Messages |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/emmanuel-macron-emails-wikileaks-releases-french-presidents-campaign-messages-2572612 |website=ibtimes.com |accessdate=25 July 2019}}</ref>
+| 2017 || February 16 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes {{w|CIA}} espionage orders for the {{w|2012 French presidential election}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election |url=https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/> [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] claims he has damaging information on the leading French presidential candidate {{w|Emmanuel Macron}} having a homosexual affair.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fearnow |first1=Benjamin |title=Emmanuel Macron Emails: Wikileaks Releases French President's Campaign Messages |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/emmanuel-macron-emails-wikileaks-releases-french-presidents-campaign-messages-2572612 |website=ibtimes.com |accessdate=25 July 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2017 || March 7 || Release || WikiLeaks publishes thousands of internal {{w|CIA}} documents (known as ''{{w|Vault 7}}''), including alleged discussions of a covert hacking program and the development of spy software targeting cellphones, smart TVs and computer systems in cars. [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] states that the website published the documents as a warning about the risk of the proliferation of "[[w:Cyberweapon|cyber weapons]]". However, the documents are not independently authenticated.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks claims to reveal how CIA hacks TVs and phones all over the world |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/technology/wikileaks-cia-hacking/index.html?iid=EL |website=money.cnn.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2017 || October || || {{w|CNN}} reports that in 2016 a {{w|Cambridge Analytica}} executive approached WikiLeaks requesting access to  emails from {{w|Hillary Clinton}}. Assange confirms the exchange in a tweet.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump campaign analytics company contacted WikiLeaks about Clinton emails |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/25/politics/cambridge-analytica-julian-assange-wikileaks-clinton-emails/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref>
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-| 2017 || November 25 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes more than 500 documents from the {{w|United States Embassy}} in {{w|Sana’a}}, {{w|Yemen}}.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2018 || September 28 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes a secret document concerning a dispute over a £3.6 billion Middle Eastern arms deal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dealmaker: Al Yousef |url=https://wikileaks.org/dealmaker/Al-Yousef/releases/#Dealmaker:%20Al%20Yousef |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New WikiLeaks Release Exposes Corruption in UAE Arms Deal Fueling War on Yemen |url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-wikileaks-doc-exposes-corruption-in-uae-arms-deal-fueling-war-on-yemen/250045/ |website=mintpressnews.com |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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-| 2018 || September 28 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes a secret document concerning a dispute over a £3.6 billion Middle Eastern arms deal.<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
+| 2018 || October 11 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes a "Highly Confidential" internal document from the cloud computing provider [[w:AWS|Amazon]] which lists the addresses of over 100 data centers in nine countries including {{w|China}}, {{w|Singapore}} and {{w|Japan}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amazon Atlas |url=https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/ |website=wikileaks.org |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks publishes ‘highly confidential’ Amazon document with its data centers; offices in China, Japan, Singapore, none in India |url=https://www.mynation.com/world/wikileaks-amazon-cloud-computing-data-centers-highly-confidential-document-pgh2b7 |website=mynation.com |accessdate=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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-| 2018 || October 11 || Release || {{w|WikiLeaks}} publishes a "Highly Confidential" internal document from the cloud computing provider [[w:AWS|Amazon]].<ref name="How WikiLeaks works"/>
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 | 2019 || January || || WikiLeaks sends a 5,000-word email to journalists listing 140 things they should not say about Assange, from asserting that he has been an agent of any intelligence service to that he has ever bleached his hair.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange arrested after almost 7 years in embassy |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/11/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-police-london-n991236 |website=euronews.com |accessdate=25 July 2019}}</ref>
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 | 2019 || April || Legal || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] asylum is rescinded, and he is [[w:Indictment|indicted]] in the {{w|United States}} for violating the Espionage Act.<ref name="biography.com"/>
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-| 2019 || April || Recognition || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] is awarded the Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange awarded 2019 Galizia Prize |url=https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/04/16/julian-assange-awarded-2019-galizia-prize-for-journalists-whistleblowers-defenders-of-the-right-to-information/ |website=defend.wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+| 2019 || April || Recognition || [[w:Julian Assange|Assange]] is awarded the Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange Wins 2019 EU Journalism Award |url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Julian-Assange-Wins-2019-EU-Journalism-Award-20190416-0035.html |website=telesurenglish.net |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange wins EU journalism award |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/julian-assange-wins-eu-journalism-award-20190417-p51euj.html |website=smh.com.au |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Julian Assange awarded 2019 Galizia Prize |url=https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/04/16/julian-assange-awarded-2019-galizia-prize-for-journalists-whistleblowers-defenders-of-the-right-to-information/ |website=defend.wikileaks.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref>
+|-
+|}
+== Numerical and visual data  ==
+=== Google Scholar ===
+The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 13, 2021.
+{| class="sortable wikitable"
+! Year
+! WikiLeaks
+|-
+| 2007 || 89
+|-
+| 2008 || 197
+|-
+| 2009 || 299
+|-
+| 2010 || 2,000
+|-
+| 2011 || 7,130
+|-
+| 2012 || 6,420
+|-
+| 2013 || 6,270
+|-
+| 2014 || 6,480
+|-
+| 2015 || 5,970
+|-
+| 2016 || 6,320
+|-
+| 2017 || 6,330
+|-
+| 2018 || 5,680
+|-
+| 2019 || 5,150
+|-
+| 2020 || 4,610
 |-
 |}
+[[File:Wikileaks gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
+=== Google Trends ===
+The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for WikiLeaks (Non-profit) and Julian Assange (Australian editor), from October 2006 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks and Julian Assange |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2006-10-04%202021-04-18&q=%2Fm%2F027m_21,%2Fm%2F0b6k2_z |website=Google Trends |access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
+[[File:WikiLeaks and Julian Assange gt.png|thumb|center|600px]]
+=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
+The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, from 2006 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks and Julian Assange |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=WikiLeaks%2CJulian+Assange&year_start=2006&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true |website=books.google.com |access-date=18 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
+[[File:WikiLeaks and Julian Assange ngram.png|thumb|center|700px]]
+=== Wikipedia Views ===
+The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article {{w|WikiLeaks}}, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=WikiLeaks&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
+[[File:WikiLeaks wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
+The comparative chart below shows pageviews on desktop of the English Wikipedia articles {{w|WikiLeaks}} and {{w|Julian Assange}} from December 2007 to March 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=WikiLeaks and Julian Assange |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?pages[0]=WikiLeaks&pages[1]=Julian+Assange&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=desktop |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
+[[File:WikiLeaks and Julian Assange wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
 ==Meta information on the timeline==
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 ==See also==
+* [[Timeline of wikis]]
 ==External links==
+* [https://wikileaks.org/ wikileaks.org]
 ==References==
 {{Reflist|30em}}