26-07-2010, 07:58 AM
Wow !!
90,000 + documents takes some work to get into ANY kind of order - let alone what they've done to put it all up using wiki-text mark up and offering the files in CSV, SQL and KML formats too!!
I have some considerable insight into the work involved in collating documents for orderly presentation on exactly the same software platform as used by WikiLeaks. Those documents have been ordered into 6 categories, each with 4 - 10 sub categories and integrated with the Mediawiki Maps extension. That is one hell of a lot of work and must have involved at least 10 people working flat out for several months.
Pretty good explanation of the site hiatus since early this year I'd say. I also have to say - humble pie time - that bringing those kind of focussed resources to bear would be near to impossible to do for free.
90,000 + documents takes some work to get into ANY kind of order - let alone what they've done to put it all up using wiki-text mark up and offering the files in CSV, SQL and KML formats too!!
I have some considerable insight into the work involved in collating documents for orderly presentation on exactly the same software platform as used by WikiLeaks. Those documents have been ordered into 6 categories, each with 4 - 10 sub categories and integrated with the Mediawiki Maps extension. That is one hell of a lot of work and must have involved at least 10 people working flat out for several months.
Pretty good explanation of the site hiatus since early this year I'd say. I also have to say - humble pie time - that bringing those kind of focussed resources to bear would be near to impossible to do for free.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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