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

[George Herbert]

Regarding laser weapons -

It has been published in public reliable sources, such as Aviation Week,
Proceedings of the Naval Institute, various speciality publications like
Janes Inteligence Review, etc.

We have Category:Military_lasers which is thin but not empty.



On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> 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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-george william herbert
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