Administration of WikiLeaks

According to a January 2010 interview, the WikiLeaks team then consisted of five people working full-time and about 800 people who worked occasionally, none of whom were compensated. WikiLeaks has no official headquarters. The expenses per year are about €200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, but would reach €600,000 if work currently done by volunteers were paid for. WikiLeaks does not pay for lawyers, as hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal support have been donated by media organisations such as the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Its only revenue stream is donations, but WikiLeaks is planning to add an auction model to sell early access to documents. According to the Wau Holland Foundation, WikiLeaks receives no money for personnel costs, only for hardware, travelling and bandwidth. An article in TechEYE.net wrote

As a charity accountable under German law, donations for Wikileaks can be made to the foundation. Funds are held in escrow and are given to Wikileaks after the whistleblower website files an application containing a statement with proof of payment. The foundation does not pay any sort of salary nor give any renumeration [sic] to Wikileaks' personnel, corroborating the statement of the site's German representative Daniel Schmitt (real name Daniel Domscheit-Berg) on national television that all personnel works [sic] voluntarily, even its speakers.

Relation with the Wikimedia Foundation
It is sometimes assumed that WikiLeaks is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation and is connected to Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and other Wiki-organizations. This is not the case and WikiLeaks has no relationship with any of those groups. The private information protection models of WikiLeaks and Wikipedia are different. Wikipedia makes no guarantee, log and will reveal (if requested) the tracking information (such as IP addresses) of readers or contributors and applies restrictions to discovered Tor anonymity network exit nodes.

Site management issues
There has been public disagreement between Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who resigned on September 28, 2010 as WikiLeaks' spokesman. In October 2010, it was reported that Moneybookers, which collected donations for WikiLeaks, had ended its relationship with the site. Moneybookers stated that its decision had been made "to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities, agencies or commissions."