On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jimmy gave a speech to the intelligence community earlier this year.
We were independently contacted by the State Department some months
ago to submit forms to allow the US Government to proceed with use of
MediaWiki. This was the subject of some talks at Wikimania in
Cambridge this summer.
This is, in other words, not new news (at least to us).
On 11/1/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick
<bradp.wmf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed - we are proud our software is good enough to be used by
spooks.
>
> I didn't see in the story if it confirmed that they're using
MediaWiki.
>
> Do you have independent confirmation?
Thanks for the info, for those of us who weren't able to make it to
Wikimania.
Sorry, I sent this to en-wp but missed this list:
See also Chris Bronk's talk about Wikimania this year about Diplopedia, a
pilot project within the U.S. Department of State to provide information to
diplomats and increase information sharing within the department.