Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki (was: Wikia leasing office space to WMF)

2009-01-24 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/25 Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com: Yeah, agreed. While on-topic for the list, it's off-topic for this thread. U.S. intelligence agency involvement in the development of open source products, especially media wiki, however *IS* a topic I am very much interested in seeing further

Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki (was: Wikia leasing office space to WMF)

2009-01-24 Thread Brian
That means I can clarify why my much hated factual correction was appropriate. Here was the original statement: If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure Let's briefly suppose that there are binaries for mediawiki (which is false - but suppose they only gave you byte code

Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki (was: Wikia leasing office space to WMF)

2009-01-24 Thread geni
2009/1/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Has anyone actually asked the CIA for MediaWiki extensions and enhancements? It'd be worth asking. We don't know much about what they have done but most of their developments are more likely to be of interest to corporate wikis than wikipedia. --

Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki (was: Wikia leasing office space to WMF)

2009-01-24 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/25 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Has anyone actually asked the CIA for MediaWiki extensions and enhancements? It'd be worth asking. We don't know much about what they have done but most of their developments are more likely to be of interest to

Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki (was: Wikia leasing office space to WMF)

2009-01-24 Thread Nathan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/25 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Has anyone actually asked the CIA for MediaWiki extensions and enhancements? It'd be worth asking. I suspect any significant changes they