WikiLeaks releases AKP email database
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Says they are releasing emails from mailboxes from first part of alphabet, and these are more used to communicate with the world than internally.
Hopefully server will come back soon.
edit: it loaded again, copied text from landing page
Today, 11pm Anakara Time, WikiLeaks releases part one of the AKP Emails. AKP, or the Justice & Development Party, is the ruling party of Turkey and is the political force behind the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Part one of the series covers 762 mail boxes beginning with 'A' through to 'I' containing 294,548 email bodies together with many thousands of attached files. The emails come from "akparti.org.tr", the AKP's primary domain. The most recent was sent on July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010. It should be noted that emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters.
The material was obtained a week before the attempted coup. However, WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government's post-coup purges. We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.
Unclear wording. Does moving "forward" mean to do something earlier than planned? Were we supposed to expect some other publication date when told that "the material was obtained a week before the attempted coup"?
I do agree that the answer could have been worded more clearly.
This would be considered clear wording by proficient English speakers, 'However' sets up the clause, and 'has moved forward its publication schedule in response to..' is pretty self explanatory.
Generally one does not need to write "Wikileaks had publication of the material planned for a later date than today." -- "has moved forward" implies the former.
I think it requires the reader to perform an unfortunate extra step or two of inference. It seems preferable, in my humble opinion, to avoid this in situations where you want to be sure that you are expressing yourself unambiguously.
To answer your question:
Wikileaks moved the publication to an earlier date. They apparently wanted to release it later (probably to prepare better), but thought it was relevant because of the coup attempt.
Regarding clarity, I avoid using "forward" and "backward" with regards to time.
That came out wrong. I don't avoid talking about a forward and a backward direction of time. What I avoid is saying that a planned event has been moved forward or backward, because people have different ideas of which means which.
Yes, conventionally, in English (well, at least, American English, and I've seen it frequently enough in British English usage that it seems to be the same there, but its at least possible that its not universal), "moving forward" the time of a planned event means moving it earlier in time, while "moving back" the time of a planned event means moving it later in time.
"Forward/back" here is similar to closer/farther from the head of queue.
According to Wikileaks, the release was hastened in light of recent events, so I presume they didn't have time to comb through the data. That said, I would assume this was released for a reason (i.e. some of the emails have some value), but I honestly can't tell what that might be.
I think that's to be expected. If it was full of easy find critical information, it would mean they filtered what's being released. This way, it's simply a dump of everything - now it's for others to dig for anything interesting.
- If you translate line by line, you lose information shared between lines (state of the current sentence, etc)
"Did you stay \n
up last night?"
- A solution would be to remember where the newline was (here, after the word stay) translate the whole sentence, then add it back in. But after translation, maybe "stay up" transformed into another word entirely. "stay" doesn't exist anymore, Or it might have shifted to another place in the sentence. where do you put the newline?
- Idioms would further exacerbate this problem.
- As a result, you would need to train your translation unit (e.g. a neural net) on also intelligently carrying newlines to the translated language. This might be more work than worth the payoff.
This might or might not be the reason. Could be a simple oversight, or something entirely different.
Wikileaks don't have access to any Turkish-speakers I think (at least not in the inner circle of people who might get access to unpublished submissions), so you can't assume there's something truly scandalous in there. They were released for a reason, yes, but that reason is the fairly obvious one that there was a coup attempt in Turkey right now.
It has value as research material for people studying or writing about the current political situation in Turkey, even if there are no "smoking gun"-type single documents in there.
But shouldnt WikiLeaks be releasing this as a torrent?! Wouldn't that be much more effective, both efficiency and cost-wise?
Only if you've been living under a stone for the past week.
Edit: Not able to search, I'm getting timeouts. Clearly a heavy load at launch time.
Edit 2: Wikileaks mentioned they were hit by 'cyberattacks' before the release but were still able to get it out. Maybe it's getting DDOS by some Turkish supporters. They were also apparently phished well enough to cause them to tweet this: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755140834836832256/phot...
Edit: accessible again. Perhaps a DDOS mitigation technique?
Trying to search returns a 401 at the moment.
Edit: that's no longer happening.
edit: it's fixed