Intellipedia - Wikipedia for the intelligence community

November 1st, 2006

IntellipediaThe U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of
Wikipedia which will intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on Intellipedia.

This is 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.

Intelligence officials hope that Intellipedia might help avoid errors of the kind that led to the widely criticized 2002 national intelligence estimate that said Saddam Hussein possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

5 Comments

  1. Comment by Saur on November 13, 2006 11:25 am

    Really?? Sounds too easy to pass rumors on, though. They can’t exactly cite sources!

  2. Comment by Jaynie on November 27, 2006 5:46 pm

    I don’t like how easily the information can be modified so who’s to say what is good info and what isn’t? thats my hang up.

  3. Comment by Bes on November 28, 2006 6:32 pm

    Hmm, Saur is right, it’s hard to verify such a thing.

    However, having such an access can be an amazing thing, by having anyone who’s authorized edit information and also keeping a track of who changes what.

    I haven’t been here in a while, so I wanted to congratulate you for the new design. Nice work.

  4. Comment by Ajay on December 26, 2006 11:46 am

    Yeah..i guess they would track ppl who contribute.

  5. Comment by Jonathan on February 20, 2007 5:51 am

    3,600 is too many people to all be able to edit the same classified information.

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