Intellipedia

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative <a href="/facts/Data_sharing/X1cJc4K4">data sharing</a> used by the <a href="/facts/United_States_intelligence_community/JLLIfECW">United States Intelligence Community</a> (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006. Intellipedia consists of three <a href="/facts/Wiki/uCKCEzqb">wikis</a> running on the separate <a href="/facts/Joint_Worldwide_Intelligence_Communications_System/WspPyNpY">JWICS</a> (Intellipedia-TS), <a href="/facts/SIPRNet/tQuvDBlN">SIPRNet</a> (Intellipedia-S), and <a href="/facts/DNI-U/YfoXS72P">DNI-U</a> (Intellipedia-U) <a href="/facts/Computer_network/3w5RM99p">networks</a>. The <a href="/facts/Classified_information/og7wn3tD">levels of classification</a> allowed for information on the three wikis are <a href="/facts/Top_Secret/og7wn3tD">Top Secret</a> <a href="/facts/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information/bIHNTB4P">Sensitive Compartmented Information</a> (TS SCI), <a href="/facts/Classified_information_in_the_United_States/YNyn6wGA">Secret</a> (S), and <a href="/facts/Sensitive_But_Unclassified/w4pSMStJ">Sensitive But Unclassified</a> (SBU or <a href="/facts/For_Official_Use_Only/7xn3yomP">FOUO</a>) information, respectively. Each of the wikis is used by individuals with appropriate <a href="/facts/Security_clearance/d34w9Ksj">clearances</a> from the 18 agencies of the <a href="/facts/US_intelligence_community/JLLIfECW">US intelligence community</a> and other national-security related organizations, including <a href="/facts/Unified_Combatant_Command/GhMUXheg">Combatant Commands</a> and other federal departments. The wikis are not open to the public.
Intellipedia is a project of the <a href="/facts/Office_of_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence/AnV5cBUQ">Office of the Director of National Intelligence</a> (ODNI) <a href="/facts/Intelink/4Njmnh5H">Intelligence Community Enterprise Services</a> (ICES) office headquartered in <a href="/facts/Fort_George_G._Meade/c7BkDSaR">Fort Meade</a>, <a href="/facts/Maryland/tVy9fC1n">Maryland</a>. It includes information on the regions, people, and issues of interest to the communities using its host networks. Intellipedia uses <a href="/facts/MediaWiki/MbkLUTor">MediaWiki</a>, the same software used by the <a href="/facts/Wikipedia/KDRNKWnc">Wikipedia</a> free-content encyclopedia project. 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."
The Secret version connected to SIPRNet serves <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Defense/dWAvf7e3">Department of Defense</a> and the <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_State/WsB5FMBT">Department of State</a> 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 <a href="/facts/VPN/HX1WUQ3E">VPN</a>, in addition to their normal workstations. <a href="/facts/Open_Source_Intelligence/GzCXep9r">Open Source Intelligence</a> (OSINT) users share information on the unclassified <a href="/facts/Intelink-U/4Njmnh5H">Intelink-U</a> <a href="/facts/Wiki/uCKCEzqb">wiki</a>.

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