Intellipedia – using a wiki by the US Intelligence Community

The wikipedia has a cousin inside the US intelligent community. As the wikipedia says, “Intellipedia is a classified wiki that runs on JWICS, the top-secret network Intelink that links the 16 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community. It is not accessible to the public….As of October 2006, it contained 28,000 pages and 3,600 users.[1] It includes information on the areas, people and issues of interest to those communities. Intellipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia project.[2] Intellipedia also contains a great deal of non-encyclopedic content including meeting notes and items of internal, administrative interest. The wiki provides so much flexibility that several offices throughout the community are using it to maintain and transfer knowledge on daily operations and events. Anyone with access to read it has permission to create and edit articles. Since Intellipedia is intended to be a platform for harmonizing the various points of view of the agencies and analysts of the Intelligence Community, Intellipedia does not enforce a neutral point of view policy.”

The wikipedia article has much more but I put in this long quote as I think this could be a great wiki application. Past event have shown that the US intelligent community could use a lot of help coordinating its efforts. The same concept could work for any organization try to get better coordination and collaboration.

The effort has attracted a lot of interest and there is the UNOFFICIAL Intellipedia blog which claims to have all the news about Intellipedia. enterprise 2.0 enterprise social media

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Thanks for the link to http://intellipedia.org