10 Facts About Intellipedia

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community .

Intellipedia is a project of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Intelligence Community Enterprise Services office headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Intellipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia project.

Intellipedia was created to share information on some of the most difficult subjects facing U S intelligence and to bring cutting-edge technology into its ever-more-youthful workforce.

Intellipedia was at least partially inspired by a paper written for the Galileo Award, which encouraged any employee at any intelligence agency to submit new ideas to improve information sharing.

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Intellipedia said analysts from multiple agencies had used the network to post frequent updates on recent events, including the crash of a small plane into a New York City apartment building in October 2006 and North Korea's test of a missile in July 2006.

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis, cited the successful use of Intellipedia to develop an article on how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices saying, "They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia, ".

Since Intellipedia is intended to be a platform for harmonizing the various points of view of the agencies and analysts of the Intelligence Community, Intellipedia does not enforce a neutral point of view policy.

Intellipedia contains a great deal of non-encyclopedic content including meeting notes and items of internal, administrative interest.

In 2009, Don Burke and Sean P Dennehy, two early and avid users of Intellipedia, were awarded with the "Homeland Security Service to America Medal" by the Partnership for Public Service.