Mailbag: Is Wikipedia related to WikiLeaks in any way? No.
Answering your questions about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation work with the facts behind the facts.
What’s in a name? In the case of ‘wiki’, lots of things.
Anyone who’s been watching the news will have heard about Wikileaks by now. Wikipedia shares the generic “wiki-” prefix in its name, but there’s no relation. Occasionally even major news sources like the BBC get this wrong, which can lead to serious confusion, even when it’s quickly fixed.