Saturday, February 8, 2014

Intellipedia

Wikirama is back!

Here is a little something interesting: there exists a wiki for the US intelligence community called Intellipedia. It's not open to the public, but it is open to people in America's various intelligence agencies. Supposedly, it will lead to closer collaboration among intelligence agencies and help prevent another 9/11-style attack.

The Wikipedia page says Intellipedia was designed for the "youth" of the intelligence community, presumably because the newest spies are paper-phobic and would really like to debate how to defeat the Taliban on the Intellipedia talk pages.

All the information about Intellipedia seems to come from an era between 2006 to 2008. As far as I can tell, there aren't any news articles or even leaked information that mentions Intellipedia since that time. One has to wonder if the intelligence communities are still using it or if it has become passé in the intervening six years or so. Are the intelligence "youth" of today really longing for a wiki to share information on Russian troop movements? Or was Intellipedia just created in the Wiki-craze years of the mid-2000s, is now defunct, and has been usurped by Intelli-apps?

Here is the official Intellipedia page (known as Intelink), but you're not going to get any farther than this main page without a password.

Intellipedia

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