George Herbert wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fred Bauder wrote: >> >>> Why Wikipedia and Intellipedia (CIA's version of Wikipedia) can add Value >>> for Information Users >>> >>> http://www.birdsonginfo.com/blog/2009/05/in-addition-to-analysis-we-need-people-who-can-create-an--ecosystem-of-knowledge-that-is-not-specifically-about-answering.html >>> >>> Fred Bauder >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >>> >> Clarification... >> >> The Intellipedia does not belong to the CIA, but all IC community users, >> that use it. It is actually managed by the ODNI. Additionally, two of >> the three wiki s are classified. The third is SBU, which is not a >> classification. Users must still be cleared for such use however. Note >> that access to classified material is not permitted remotely on the >> other two Wiki's. >> >> (according to publicly available sources.) >> >> Best, >> Jon >> > > From the presentation at last years LISA conference, the three wikis > are integrated, with a classification level access control along the > lines of WP access controls but much more robust, as the security > classifications business is fairly rigidly controlled... > > You can look down from a higher classification level and have links to > and across lower classification level info. > > > Funny snippet - one of their major internal organizational issues is > that a lot of stuff in Wikipedia on some subjects is still formally > highly classified, even if well known in public. They had cases where > people reported "You can't say that! Classify it to Top Secret > immediately!", and the response was "We imported that article straight > from Wikipedia, that's what the public sees out there already...". > Which was in some cases not good enough, and they had to remove things > and link out to us (though they indicated they were now generally > winning those fights). > > > I don't believe they are integrated. The publically available descriptions of the three networks state they do not co-mingle. They might link to one another, but I think integration might be pushing it. I'll research any available press releases and what not from the DoD, but I do I've derailed the conversation topic from it's original intent, and for that, I apologize. :)
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