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| -rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/_sidebar.rhtml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/about.rhtml | 83 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/credits.rhtml | 91 |
3 files changed, 92 insertions, 84 deletions
diff --git a/app/views/help/_sidebar.rhtml b/app/views/help/_sidebar.rhtml index 3fa77011f..29e575931 100644 --- a/app/views/help/_sidebar.rhtml +++ b/app/views/help/_sidebar.rhtml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Making requests", "/help/about#making_requests" %></li> <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Privacy policy", "/help/about#privacy" %></li> <li><%= link_to_unless_current "FOI officers", "/help/about#officers" %></li> - <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Credits", "/help/about#credits" %></li> + <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Credits", "/help/credits" %></li> <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Programmers API", "/help/api" %></li> <li><%= link_to_unless_current "Advanced search", "/search" %></li> </ul> diff --git a/app/views/help/about.rhtml b/app/views/help/about.rhtml index d6b56906e..3e70f049f 100644 --- a/app/views/help/about.rhtml +++ b/app/views/help/about.rhtml @@ -729,89 +729,6 @@ requests, and for good public relations, we'd advise you not to do that. </dl> -<h1 id="credits">Credit where credit is due <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1> - -<dl> - -<dt id="thanks">Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? <a href="#thanks">#</a> </dt> -<dd>Oh, nearly everyone (and <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus">maybe you too</a>)! -<ul> -<li> - <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brooke</a> - (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">vampy!</a>) has - been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now. -</li> -<li> - Both Phil Rodgers and <a href="http://www.flourish.org/blog/">Francis Irving</a> - entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build. -</li> -<li> - <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/">It won</a>, - and then Chris Lightfoot (<a href="http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000129.html">RIP :(</a>) - thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and - automatically publishing them. -</li> -<li> - Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from - <a href="http://www.jrrt.org.uk/">a dead chocolate mogul</a> (<em>thank you!</em>) ... -</li> -<li> - ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville - and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build - what you see today. -</li> -<li> - Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (<a href="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/">great blog!</a>), - Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving - feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and - testers. -</li> -<li> - The amazing team of volunteers who run the site, answer your support - emails, maintain the database of public authorities and - <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/10/13/behind-whatdotheyknow/">so much more</a>. - Thanks to John Cross, Ben Harris, Adam McGreggor, Alex Skene, - Richard Taylor. -</li> -<li> - Volunteers who have provided patches to the code - thanks Peter Collingbourne - and Tony Bowden. -</li> -<li> - Everyone who has helped look up FOI email addresses. -</li> -<li> - We couldn't do any of this without those - <a href="http://www.ukcod.org.uk/UKCOD_Trustees">crazy people</a> who volunteer, - amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return. -</li> -<li> - Finally, all the officers and servants who have answered the many requests - made through the site. Their diligence, patience and professionalism is - what has actually made the information that you see here. Thank them for - helping make Government more transparent. -</li> -</ul> -You're all stars. -</dd> - -<dt id="helpus">Can I help out? <a href="#helpus">#</a> </dt> -<dd> - <p>Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.</p> - <ul> - <li>You can <a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/">make a donation</a>. We're a registered charity.</li> - <li>Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by - <a href="/categorise/play">playing the categorisation game</a>. </li> - <li>Find out FOI email addresses of <a href="#missing_body">authorities that we're missing</a>.</li> - <li>Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've - found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.</li> <li>If you're - a programmer, <a href="http://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow">get the - source code</a> - and tell us about patches we can pull. It's made in Ruby on Rails. - <li>Read more about <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus/">volunteering with mySociety</a>. - </ul> -</dd> - </dl> <div id="hash_link_padding"></div> diff --git a/app/views/help/credits.rhtml b/app/views/help/credits.rhtml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b55bbeaf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/views/help/credits.rhtml @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +<% @title = "About" %> + +<%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %> + +<h1 id="credits">Credit where credit is due <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1> + +<dl> + +<dt id="thanks">Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? <a href="#thanks">#</a> </dt> +<dd>Oh, nearly everyone (and <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus">maybe you too</a>)! +<ul> +<li> + <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brooke</a> + (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">vampy!</a>) has + been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now. +</li> +<li> + Both Phil Rodgers and <a href="http://www.flourish.org/blog/">Francis Irving</a> + entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build. +</li> +<li> + <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/">It won</a>, + and then Chris Lightfoot (<a href="http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000129.html">RIP :(</a>) + thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and + automatically publishing them. +</li> +<li> + Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from + <a href="http://www.jrrt.org.uk/">a dead chocolate mogul</a> (<em>thank you!</em>) ... +</li> +<li> + ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville + and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build + what you see today. +</li> +<li> + Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (<a href="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/">great blog!</a>), + Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving + feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and + testers. +</li> +<li> + The amazing team of volunteers who run the site, answer your support + emails, maintain the database of public authorities and + <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/10/13/behind-whatdotheyknow/">so much more</a>. + Thanks to John Cross, Ben Harris, Adam McGreggor, Alex Skene, + Richard Taylor. +</li> +<li> + Volunteers who have provided patches to the code - thanks Peter Collingbourne + and Tony Bowden. +</li> +<li> + Everyone who has helped look up FOI email addresses. +</li> +<li> + We couldn't do any of this without those + <a href="http://www.ukcod.org.uk/UKCOD_Trustees">crazy people</a> who volunteer, + amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return. +</li> +<li> + Finally, all the officers and servants who have answered the many requests + made through the site. Their diligence, patience and professionalism is + what has actually made the information that you see here. Thank them for + helping make Government more transparent. +</li> +</ul> +You're all stars. +</dd> + +<dt id="helpus">Can I help out? <a href="#helpus">#</a> </dt> +<dd> + <p>Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.</p> + <ul> + <li>You can <a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/">make a donation</a>. We're a registered charity.</li> + <li>Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by + <a href="/categorise/play">playing the categorisation game</a>. </li> + <li>Find out FOI email addresses of <a href="#missing_body">authorities that we're missing</a>.</li> + <li>Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've + found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.</li> <li>If you're + a programmer, <a href="http://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow">get the + source code</a> + and tell us about patches we can pull. It's made in Ruby on Rails. + <li>Read more about <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus/">volunteering with mySociety</a>. + </ul> +</dd> + + +<div id="hash_link_padding"></div> + + |