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-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/api.html.erb | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/privacy.html.erb | 5 |
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diff --git a/app/views/help/api.html.erb b/app/views/help/api.html.erb index df7bb30b6..c6488f93e 100644 --- a/app/views/help/api.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/api.html.erb @@ -71,7 +71,15 @@ </p> </dd> - </dl> + + + <dt> 5. Write API </dt> + <dd> + <p> + The write API is designed to be used by authorities to create their own requests in the system. The API is currently used by mySociety's <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/foi-register">FOI Register software</a> to support using Alaveteli as a disclosure log for all FOI activity at a particular public body. More technical information about the write API is available on the <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/API#write-api">Alaveteli wiki</a>. + </p> + </dd> +</dl> <p>Please <a href="<%= help_contact_path %>">contact us</a> if you need an API feature that isn't there yet. It's very much a work in progress, and we do add things when people ask us to.</p> diff --git a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb index 8e5293892..8ee7da385 100644 --- a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone. </dd> +<dt id="anonymous">Why are there anonymous requests on the site? <a href="#anonymous">#</a> </dt> +<dd> +Some public authorities are using mySociety's <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/foi-register">FOI Register</a> software in order to use WhatDoTheyKnow as a disclosure log for all their FOI activity. When people make requests to the authority their names will usually be withheld from publication just as they would in an authority disclosure log on an authority website. +</dd> + <dt id="full_address">They've asked for my postal address! <a href="#full_address">#</a> </dt> <dd> |