DefenderWiki

Hi everyone, I've received emails from all three of my regular readers with questions about DefenderWiki. What is it and why does it not seem to allow me to request access? I don't know how many of you remember a post I did last year on Intellipedia, but in the words of the official Wiki on their Wiki:

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States intelligence community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 ^[1][2] and consists of three wikis running on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U. They are used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of IC and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands and other federal departments. The wikis are not open to the public.I wanted to create something similar.

Obviously, I don't have the resources of the federal government but I thought it would be a cool and useful idea for a similar resource to be available to those of us in the Public Defender community...and DefenderWiki was born!

Wiki's really depend on input by the users and obviously this project is going to be as useless as tits on a log unless people with a little knowledge on a lot of issues are able to contribute. I'm not sure if it will work or not but only time will tell.

Access to DefenderWiki should be opened up this week or next week at the latest. It will be completely free and access will be limited to Employees/Interns of Public Defender offices in the United States. Access will only be given to those that are able to prove they meet those requirements.

Some of the delay in getting DefenderWiki up and running has been as a result of me learning and attempting to create a framework that people can fill in...unfortunately, it took me a while to figure out that it's the individual users that create the direction in which this freeform source of information grows. I just hope it works and people use it.

More later...