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CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts
hhavensteincw writes "If you think selling Web 2.0 in your organization is hard, some early backers of a Wikipedia-like project at the Central Intelligence Agency were called traitors and told they 'would get someone killed' by their efforts. But Intellipedia — the CIA's version of Wikipedia — now is so heavily used by analysts that the agency is using it in its security briefings, according to two of the CIA employees who work on the project. Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video and Flickr-like photo sharing as well as a wiki where workers can debate different intel information."
Most of this collaboration is done over the SIPRNET and therefore not subject to vandalism.
and a lot more detail. The screenshot is the only place where the URL is listed (https://www.intelink.gov/wiki), and you'll need a username and password to get in. I'll leave that part up to you =)
However, getting inaccurate information earlier to more people can cause everyone a lot of trouble... It's not so clear cut and dry...
Actually, Intellipedia also is connected to SIPRnet for military use. You don't actually think that the DoD wouldn't be connected to all available intel links do you?
It's actually a very good collaboration tool, as normally cross-department/cross-agency work is almost non-existant, and when the information does get passed along, it's too old to be useful. Also, things like streaming UAS feeds are often on there as well, as sometimes other agencies are better at imageint than the ones taking the pictures.
- sF (...somewhere in Iraq.)
There are multiple 'pedias, one is on SIPRNET and another is on the TS net. They are completely different, due to the different classification levels.
"We are not typically dealing with facts," he noted. "We are dealing with puzzles and mysteries. Everyone in the community is working on something of vital national security importance. We want to get to the point in the intelligence community where everyone is contributing their knowledge to Intellipedia." In other words, they're using the wiki as a collaboration tool, not as a information aggregator. That's actually what Ward Cunningham had in mind when he invented the Wiki, and it's still the one thing Wikis really excell at. Sure, wikis are used for a lot of other stuff (like building reference books, a task at which they positively suck), but only because using them saves a lot of money.
Its non-classified info anyway. Look at the top of this screenshot.
You don't parse well, do you? Let me read between the lines for you.
Accuracy without efficient dissemination is useless.
Efficient dissemination without accuracy is useless.
Each is just as potentially destructive as the other and choosing between the two is not really an option.
"Little is much when little you need."