Yep, :(
FYI
CIA creates computer spy system using Wikipedia's software
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The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of Wikipedia saying the popular online encyclopedia http://english.pravda.ru/filing/encyclopedia_/ format known for its openness is key to the future of American espionage.
The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have created a computer system that uses software from a popular Internet encyclopedia site to gather content on sensitive topics from analysts across the spy community, part of an effort to fix problems that plagued prewar estimates on Iraq . The system, dubbed Intellipedia because it is built on open-source software from Wikipedia http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Wikipedia/ , was launched earlier this year. It already is being used to assemble intelligence reports on Nigeria and other subjects, according to U.S. intelligence officials who on Tuesday discussed the initiative in detail for the first time, Los Angeles Times reports.
A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence http://english.pravda.ru/filing/intelligence_/ community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for "secret" and "sensitive but unclassified" material.
The system is also available to the Transportation Security Administration and national laboratories http://english.pravda.ru/filing/laboratories/ .
Intellipedia is currently being used to assemble a major intelligence report, known as a national intelligence estimate, on Nigeria as well as the State Department's annual country reports on terrorism, officials said.
Some day it may also be the path intelligence officials take to produce the president's daily intelligence briefing, Reuters reports.
Source: agencies
Prepared by Alexander Timoshik Pravda.ru
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Indeed - we are proud our software is good enough to be used by spooks.
Hint: they use Linux too; does that make them evil as well?
On 11/1/06, Łukasz Garczewski tor@oak.pl wrote:
angelina markovic napisał(a):
Yep, :(
Why the sad emote?
This just goes to show that the wiki model is versatile and that MediaWiki is a good piece of software (goot enough for the CIA at least).
Nothing to be sad about, really.
-- TOR
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On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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?
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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?
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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.
On 11/1/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/1/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:CB1
-- phoebe
At 00:36 +0100 2/11/06, ¸ukasz Garczewski wrote:
angelina markovic napisa½(a):
Yep, :(
Why the sad emote?
This just goes to show that the wiki model is versatile and that MediaWiki is a good piece of software (goot enough for the CIA at least).
Nothing to be sad about, really.
-- TOR
Mediawiki has some applications, such as Wikipedia, to which is suited.
However, the Commons has noted that Mediawiki may not be the best software for the Commons "archive". I think Mediwiki has some weakness in the forming categories, searching and indexing.
Gordo
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