CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts

hhavensteincw writes "If you think selling Web 2.0 in your organization is hard, some early backers of a Wikipedia-like project at the Central Intelligence Agency were called traitors and told they 'would get someone killed' by their efforts. But Intellipedia — the CIA's version of Wikipedia — now is so heavily used by analysts that the agency is using it in its security briefings, according to two of the CIA employees who work on the project. Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video and Flickr-like photo sharing as well as a wiki where workers can debate different intel information."

Oh Boy....

[Wiseblood1]

How long before a troll causes an international incident or snafu?

Re:I guess

[moderatorrater]

You can tell which intel is poor because it's got [citation needed] all over the place.

Here come the edit wars....

[commodoresloat]

• (cur) (last) 11:57, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,528 bytes) (reverting per BLP. Please see [[WP:CIVIL]] and stop making personal attacks, jerk!)
• (cur) (last) 11:46, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert; please stop censoring well-sourced material just because it is critical of your terrorist hero, douchebag!) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:38, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert per BLP--this text suggests sources say things they do not to cast a living person in a negative light. it is a textbook poorly sourced negative entry, which is a textbook BLP violation.) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:35, 16 May 2008 Spook4Hire (Talk | contribs) (48,131 bytes) (change to "considered by many to be a terrorist" in order to address intelguy's BLP concerns) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:33, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (48,117 bytes) (rv no BLP violation has been substantiated in talk; this is notable criticism from notable organizations that IntelGuy is disruptively censoring. IntelGuy please see WP:DE!) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:31, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert BLP violation) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:19, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (48,117 bytes) (restore legitimate and well-sourced section on notable criticism) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 11:01, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,528 bytes) (reverting per BLP. another 6 FBI references do not address my concerns. It still says "bin Ladin is considered a terrorist." There is still no consensus for this negative info in a Biography of Living Persons) (undo)
• (cur) (last) 10:46, 16 May 2008 Spook4Hire (Talk | contribs) (47,990 bytes) (-->Allegations of Terrorism) (undo)

Remember, this is the CIA we're talking about

[muellerr1]

"This has enforced a degree of collegiality amongst colleagues," Dennehy noted. "Now when you see someone that makes an edit to a page you are contributing to, you can look back and see where this person works, where their interests lie, making us a community of analysts rather than a community of agencies."

Yeah, right, 'collegiality'. That bit about seeing 'where a person works and where their interests lie' sounds a lot like a threat to me.

Don't edit my Intellipedia article, college boy. I can kill a man with my thumb and I know where you work.

Article: No WMDs in Iraq

[Anonymous Coward]

Deleted: Doesn't indicate importance/significance

Re:Wikipedia has a screenshot

[QuantumG]

That's what bugmenot is for.

So... Wikipedia and Intellipedia...

[jesdynf]

One's run by a shadowy cabal not obviously accountable to any authority... ... do I have to spell this one out?

BANHAMMER TIME

[Titoxd]

Block him. He broke the Three-revert rule [wikipedia.org].

Re:I guess

[Herkum01]

I guess that means DubyaBushJr articles are not very reliable then?

Hmm..

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video

In unrelated news Rick Astley was arrested last night on suspicion of masterminding terrorist attacks against a number of US intelligence agencies.

Some Current Posts

[copponex]

Iran has in the past contacted people who have also been monitored to have visited a nuclear facility in Pakistan. Recommend making diplomatic contact to get some more intel. (fieldofficerfred 8/23/99, imported from file)

Anyone? Need some direction on this. (fieldofficerfred 9/8/00, imported from file)

Hello? (fieldofficerfred 2/23/01, imported from file)

We're listening. How can we make this suit our needs? (pwolfawitz, rrumsfeld, dcheney 9/10/01, imported from file)

Saddam's a softer target. Hang on. (dcheney 10/25/02, imported from file)

Saddam? Iran is refining uranium! With all due repsect, what the fuck are you guys thinking? (fieldofficerfred 11/26/02, imported from file)

Don't question my authority to not know what I may or may not know that I know. You're fired. (rrumsfeld 1/8/03, imported from file)

Hey, did you guys know Iran was refining uranium? (rrumsfeld (deprecated) 11/16/07)

Iran has offered to accept the delivery of peaceful fissile material and a shutdown of their own refineries in exchange for guarantees from Europe that they won't allow the US to attack them. (gathered from the AP 5/2/08)

Disregard that. We will not allow Europe to negotiate with extremists on the other side. Iran is the greatest threat to America and the known universe, second only to waxy buildup and auto erotic asphyxiation. (dcheney 5/4/08)

Iran continues to refine uranium as they see it as their only diplomatic leverage and hope to prevent the United States from invading. (gathered from the AP 5/29/08)

IRAN HAS NUKES. [citation needed] JESUS TOLD ME TO ATTACK AT DAWN!!!!!!!!1111 [citation needed] (gwbush 8/5/08)

Mer mer mer attack at dawn, mer mer mer. (dcheney 8/5/08)

What's next.....

[george929a]

    CIAleakie - to post 'lost' secrets.

    Wikillyou - where assassins can discuss tricks of the trade.

Re:Wikipedia has a screenshot

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll leave that up to you. I wouldn't want to get noticed for trying an injection attack on a .gov address.

Re:It is vital, in fact

[morgan_greywolf]

Those guys ARE traitors, it's not that they might get someone killed - they cut the military-industrial-complex out of the loop, preventing them from making more profits than the oil industry.

Pssst! The oil industry is part of the military-industrial-complex. But you didn't hear that from me.

Re:Wikipedia has a screenshot

[JeremyBanks]

I decided not to investigate further when I realized what I was doing. :V

Intellipedia stubs

[theurge14]

Locations of WMD in Iraq

This article is a stub. You can help Intellipedia by expanding it.

Re:It makes a lot of sense...

[Anonymous Coward]

Most of this collaboration is done over the SIPRNET and therefore not subject to vandalism.

I am an American and therefore not subject to terrorism.

Re:It makes a lot of sense...

[knutkracker]

The CIA also doesn't have to worry about vandalism- no one is going to blank a page and replace it to the word "penis"

But will they take a blank page and fill it with Iraqi WMD?

Re:Here come the edit wars....

[elrous0]

The edits would be a lot less annoying if they weren't beaming them into my head.