Wikileaks has published millions of documents, and fought off more than 100 legal challenges since its inception in 2007. It is famous for posting, among other things, the U.S. military manual for procedures at Guantánamo Bay, which included a list of inmates who would be off-limits for the Red Cross, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority's controversial blacklist of websites that would be banned under the federal government's Internet censoring policy (turning out to be online poker sites, YouTube links, and Wikipedia postings).
The groups’s officers announced its plan to shutter the site in December unless it raised enough funds to continue - but so far fundraising efforts have only netted $130,000, which amounts to a little more than half its annual costs - not including pay for staff.
A statement on the website claimed that Wikileaks had recently received hundreds of thousands of documents pertaining to "corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others," but no longer had the resources to release them.
UPDATE: As of February 4, Wikileaks.org has raised the minimum amount to keep the site open for another year.
