US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Peter Presland]

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 focused resources to bear would be near to impossible to do for free.

I've had a good look at a few of the smaller files in all provided formats now and maybe I exaggerated the 'get into order' work time a bit.

In its raw format the info was already formatted digital stuff so, once it's formatting creases had been sorted, it was then just a case of running it all through various format converters etc. Still a mammoth task though - and one requiring considerable human and computing resources. Allowing just one minute for each of 92,000 entries requires 64 man days 24 hours a day just to read the stuff!

Hats off to Assange and his team for it!

And I'm with Ed E on pretty much everything in the previous post too.