He didn't want to talk about which topic areas, but I have a pretty good idea of a few of them.
I would hazard a guess that nuclear weapons design is one of them; there's a diagram on-wiki that would have been Top Secret - Restricted Data - Secure Compartmented Information - Sigma 16 until December 2000, when it was rephrased a bit. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't understand the "no"; you seem to be agreeing with Nathan... > > On 8 April 2013 21:19, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > > No, some information which is classified is also contained within > > reliable published sources available to the public and we use that > > information in our articles, along with occasional original research > > which may due to good guesses also contain such information. There are > > not two separate worlds of reliable classified information and reliable > > unclassified information; they overlap. > > > > For example, if Mongolia purchases MIG aircraft that will result in an > > intelligence bulletin; but also there may be an AP story. The summary of > > classified information about the planes Mongolia has may have an > > inferior, but more or less accurate, Wikipedia counterpart article about > > the Mongolian air force, which if copied to the Intelligence wiki looks > > like it contains "secret" information, which, presumably the full file on > > Mongolian armed forces probably is. > > > > Fred > > > >> In other words, the problem was people were uploading Wikipedia > >> articles which the government thought included classified information? > >> And because the pages were already public uploaders assumed they were > >> unclassified, but because the government is nuts, they were wrong. > >> > >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, George Herbert < > george.herb...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine_w...@yahoo.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:31:29, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > I can't see what would be sensitive in the article.. > >>>> > >>>> I think that the existence of the article is considered too sensitive > >>>> for > >>>> them, not realizing that all information is already elsewhere on the > >>>> internet. > >>> > >>> > >>> A couple of years ago, the guy in charge of the CIA's internal > >>> MediaWiki > >>> (the Intelligence Wiki, which they added classification levels etc) did > >>> a > >>> talk at ... Usenix? LISA? One of their conferences. > >>> > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> Fortunately not one that was being exposed to the public, other than > >>> his > >>> talk... > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> -george william herbert > >>> george.herb...@gmail.com > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list > >>> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list > >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l