Many people wonder if you can use wikis for serious business. Well, you can’t get much more serious than the United States Intelligence Agency, and through Intellipedia – a closed wiki community for the 16 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community – they have done just that.

As of October last year, the Intellipedia site (which is obviously closed to the public) had 3,600 users and 28,000 pages. The hope for the wiki is to ”revolutionize the prevailing culture” of the community, where a lack of collaboration prevented them from ”connecting the dots” on serious issues in the past. It’s also been described as a way to “move (them) away from homogenized intelligence.” I would argue that there are a lot of companies that could break out of their own internal silos by doing a similar thing. 

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