[Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article

[Fred Bauder]

Weapons design is obvious; however much intelligence is about rather
ordinary military capability and deployment. We seem to be doing poorly,
from the intelligence standpoint responsibly, regarding laser weapons,
the "next big thing" I don't think much has been published in public
reliable sources, although it showed up today in the NYT.

Fred.

> On 8 April 2013 20:06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He was talking about challenges.  The code certification was
>> interesting.
>>  The Wiki project getting in trouble for having (US classified) Secret,
>> Top
>> Secret, or Top Secret SCI (Secure Compartmented Information) in the
>> "Open-unclassified" category *due to Wikipedia uploads/imports* was
>> apparently a major ongoing pain point for the whole organization.
>
> I have to say, this is a delightful image :-)
>
> We had some problems in the past on enwiki with this "officially
> secret" situation - well-meaning military personnel trying to remove
> information from articles citing operational security reasons, even
> when the information was definitionally public. Strictly speaking, had
> *they* told us the information, they could perhaps have been breaching
> operational security; the problem came from not connecting that to the
> realisation that not everyone was bound by their specific security
> restrictions.
>
> (I forget the precise pages - a map of military zones in Iraq was
> involved in one, and I've also seen someone try and remove mention of
> where US divisions were based in Germany, which was perhaps a bit like
> trying to hide the proverbial elephant...)
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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