Intellipedia

Not to be confused with Intelpedia.
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A screenshot of the Intellipedia interface
The three wikis that make up Intellipedia.

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC).[1] It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006.[2][3] Intellipedia consists of three wikis running on the separate JWICS (Intellipedia-TS), SIPRNet (Intellipedia-S), and DNI-U (Intellipedia-U) networks. The levels of classification allowed for information on the three wikis are Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS SCI), Secret (S), and Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU or FOUO) information, respectively. Each of the wikis is used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 18 agencies of the US intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands and other federal departments. The wikis are not open to the public.[4]

Intellipedia is a project of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community Enterprise Services (ICES) office headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland. It includes information on the regions, people, and issues of interest to the communities using its host networks. Intellipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia project.[5] To the contrary of mainstream Wikipedia, its intelligence analogue encourages editing that incorporates personal points of view regardless of rank as it was decided that, "much of the self-corrective knowledge in the Intelligence Community resides in personal points of view," and that "not all good ideas originate at the top."[6]

The Secret version connected to SIPRNet serves Department of Defense and the Department of State personnel, many of whom do not use the Top Secret JWICS network on a day-to-day basis. Users on unclassified networks can access Intellipedia from remote terminals outside their workspaces via a VPN, in addition to their normal workstations. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) users share information on the unclassified Intelink-U wiki.

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Intellipedia marks second anniversary". CIA Press Release. March 20, 2008. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
  3. ^ INSA, Analytic Transformation, September 2007, p. 12.
  4. ^ Vogel, Steve, "For Intelligence Officers, A Wiki Way to Connect Dots Archived 2017-12-30 at the Wayback Machine", Washington Post, August 27, 2009, p. 23.
  5. ^ "Wikipedia for Intel Officers Proves Useful". National Defense Magazine. November 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2006-11-01.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference D. Calvin Andrus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).