Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 1, 2006 @02:47AM from the intelligence-needs-a-revision-history dept.

CortoMaltese noted that the U.S. intelligence community has unveiled their own classified wiki, the Intellipedia. Reuters says "The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web. A 'top secret' Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for 'secret' and 'sensitive but unclassified' material." For kicks, you can also read about Intellipedia on Wikipedia."

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Knowledge Base Software by jmagar.com · 2006-11-01 02:55 · Score: 4, Interesting

What we are seeing here is the emerging winner in the knowledge base software category. Wiki's are able to harness the power of being fully distributed in content creation. Anyone can contribute, correct, and read the data. Also they are not shackled with structured meta data requirements so that the content collection/creation is far easier than other systems. They rely on FULL TEXT search to find the knowledge held within, and this suits perfectly well with a user based trained, by Google, in how to construct meaningful keyword based searches.

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As an added security feature ... by Keyslapper · 2006-11-01 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

In order to log on, you must be situated at a specially designed workstation equipped with a Cone of Silence ...

But really, if it's so top secret, how come the whole world knows about it?

Geez, now, everybody's going to want one. I can see it now, there'll be an Al' Qaedapedia next.