Geo Swan

I spent some time - at least several hundred hours, contributing to the [[Complex Operations Wiki|ComplexOperations.org wiki]].  I see you have no entry for it, and I would be glad to describe my experience there.  Short version - it was a wiki that used [[:Category:Semantic MediaWiki|"semantic" extensions]].  Each [[wikilink]] could encode the relationship between the topic of the current article and the article being linked to.  So, for example, the article on the Viking explorer Eric the Red could contain a link to the article on his son, Lief Ericson, that looked like '''<tt><nowiki>[[Father of::Lief Ericson]]</nowiki></tt>'''.  Meanwhile, Lief Ericson's article would contain similar link,  '''<tt><nowiki>[[Son of::Eric the Red]]</nowiki></tt>'''  These would render as regular looking wikilinks, in the body of the article.  But, at the end of the article there would be a list of the other articles the article linked to, or that linked to it, where a relationship had been stated, stating what the relationships were.  That part was great.  I liked that.  However, no one ever added support for the usual templates there, and that was a huge drawback.  In particular, there was no support for the {{Template|cite}} templates.  Oh.  I am forgetting the most important thing.  {{Wp|DARPA}}.  The site did not rely on donations, or someone with deep pockets.  Academics with ties to the Defense or Intelligence establishments paid for the site through DARPA grants.

But a Washington Post reporter noticed that, due to a clerical error by a low-level clerk, the classified ruling the judge had prepared for Kurnaz had been published in the clear.  They reported on some details from the classified version.

You know what?  I drafted additionals paragraphs describing my next fifteen years on the wikipedia.  But I am snipping them to keep this of manageable length.